““By Nuffle’s ‘Dice!’” Shouted Corbis.

Skaven were bad enough. Now followers of Nurgle had come to Avelon for a game against the Archers. This is where he drew the line. If he let them in no other team would ever stay at the Tarnished Crown again. The fear of plague and fever would keep everyone away. This is where he had to draw the line, but he had to think fast.

He went to the carriage in the front of the parade where he found the coach. Coach Yyrrkoon thankfully showed no signs of infection so he struck a risky deal. The coach could stay in the basement lodgings now that the rats were gone. (He coached rotters so there was no way the stench would bother him.) The remainder of the team would be housed with the leper colony near the refuse heaps. There they would have time to regenerate and build the potency of the rot they carried. They may even find a new rotter or two among the colonists.

The only hitch was that no one could ever learn that a Nurgle coach had stayed in the Tarnished Crown. It would be very bad for business.

Thankfully the coach agreed and everything seemed to go off without a hitch. The Archers finally managed to win a game and the Rejects managed to infect one of the journeymen only realized the game was against Nurgle after the contract was signed.

Corbis thought he was in the clear until a chambermaid screamed in horror from the basement. She had found a putrefied toe between the sheets of the bed. Perhaps Coach Yyrrkoon should have stayed in the leper colony after all.
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