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==Thots== | ==Thots== | ||
Algy and George take out the gunships | Algy and George take out the gunships | ||
The Battletruck carried on, blamming left and right. A crump in the prolixity resevoir, it collapsed to one knee and emptied itself all over the forward Reg relations team. | |||
“they’re going to a baffled for weeks!” | |||
A sprint burst to the right which took out a discombobulation stack. ''The defences weren't holding''. | |||
The GC wailed: “I don’t understand! They’re not listening to our careful arguments! I don’t understand!” | |||
Outer perimeter fails | Outer perimeter fails | ||
You got to speak a language they understand. | |||
===The Farm=== | ===The Farm=== | ||
The Moor’s Gate opened out onto The Meadow and, beyond | The oldest portal into the Lissingdown Settlement was the Moor’s Gate. It opened out onto a region beyond the city walls they called The Meadow and, beyond that, the dark forest of [[Bretton Woods|Bretton]]. | ||
The Meadow was a wide flat, low-lying mud plain. It turned briskly to swamp whenever it rained, which wasn’t often, but was often enough that generations had maintained narrow plank walkways to get about The Farm. The “boards” ran from the gate all the way to the woods, and down to The Farm between them, where they raised and cultivated clients. The itinerant labourers who maintained the Farm were thus known always as the “onboarders”. | |||
Just now, a cross-eyed, black-toothed, puck-faced peasant limped along the boards with a pail of slops. She tossed out chicken bones left and right and ladled mouldy porridge to grasping beasts who slobbered through the slats. | |||
[[Ramsay Punchface]] looked up and gingerly approached the filthy onboarder. The onboarder stopped and regarded him for an uncomfortable period. | |||
At length the wall-eyed crone said, “Watta fucka ''you'' wanna? Wanna-you some chicky, ah?” | |||
The onboarder fished a chicken bone from | The onboarder fished a chicken bone from her bucket and tossed it at Ramsay’s feet. Until she roared at her own joke, Ramsay couldn’t tell if she was serious. He stammerd out an oily yuck just to laugh along. | ||
The onboarded chose that moment to | The onboarded chose that moment to ''stop''. “Well, lad, spit it out.” | ||
Ramsay held out his tote bag. “I caught these.” | Ramsay held out his tote bag. “I caught these.” |