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Discussion April-May 2026 Short Story Contest Reading and Voting Thread

Which story did you like best? (you only get ONE vote!)

  • Story One: "The Long Wait"

    Votes: 2 22.2%
  • Story Two: "A Perfect Plan"

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Story Three: "A Hidden Threat"

    Votes: 2 22.2%
  • Story Four: "A Closing of Eyes"

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • Total voters
    9
  • Poll closed .
Some belated review-things:


Gitstompa: Ikkit, yoo git! Wez back in ‘ere doing dese stoopid story fings again, wot da acshual zog?!


Ikkit Snowscoop: Scent-look, Gitstompa…it was this-this or scent-selling your kidney-flesh again…I scent-think they grow back…


Gitstompa: Wot…?


Ikkit Snowscoop: Any-anyway this Is Ikkit Snowscoop, weather-rat for Skavenblight Underground Radio…and with-with me again is Gitstompa, our radio-thing’s Orc Sport Commentator-thing.


Gitstompa: Jus…jus get on wiv it ya git…


Ikkit Snowscoop: Yes-yes…we have been brought-brought in today to review more of these scale-thing stories…so let-let us scent-begin!


Story One:

Gitstompa:
Wot da zog?! Iz yoo tellin’ me dat scale-boy ended up in a fite fer etern…inte…etah…fer a long zoggin’ time! And dey iz makin’ it sound sad?!


Ikkit Snowscoop: Mmm well next-next time warp-thing rift opens…you can scent-go through, Gitstompa.


Gitstompa: Hurhur…yoo iz da best Ikkit, even if yoo iz puny like a grot…


Ikkit Snowscoop: Story-thing had some nice-nice weather-thing mentions, Ikkit scent-liked that. Felt slow-slow in places, mostly scale-things ramble-squeaking.


Gitstompa: Dat fite woz sumfink tho…dat shield bash inta dat horn git’z face woz music ta me earz!


Ikkit Snowscoop: I also scent-think there was some-some kind of reference-thing to some-something in this piece. But is not-not my thing.


Gitstompa: I wish I ‘ad one of dem scale-thingz dey ride on…a red wun…hurhurhur…


Story Two:

Gitstompa:
An’ dat iz why yooz rat-gitz nevah win and why da greenskinz iz way bettah at krumpin’


Ikkit Snowscoop: *Audibly sighs* Gitstompa…green-things fight-slay each other more-more than mighty-great Skaven…we kill-slay each other with more-more style and clever-smarts.


Gitstompa: Didn’t seem clevah-smert ta me, Ikkit. Dey just cowered like grotz…’ow iz yoo gitz even a threat?!


Ikkit Snowscoop: Well clear-clearly not these fool-meat! No-no, that is why-why you have rival-thing leader murder-slain and army-thing take-taken into your own-own.


Gitstompa: …Wuldn’t anuvva wun try ta bootray yer tho?


Ikkit Snowscoop: Yes-yes, almost cert-certainly. However, Gitstompa, they would have less-less power-strength than the Warlord-thing you kill-slew, more-more chance of other rivals take-grabbing their power, yes-yes?


Gitstompa: …Wot iz wrong wiv just krumpin’ da scale-boyz over da ‘ead? Dis iz just stoopid…


Ikkit Snowscoop: …any-anyway, theme-thing was on point-point, I scent-feel like more-more maybe could have been said-squeaked from view-thing of scale-things. Scale-things were not-not focus and any-any other weak-lesser race-things could have change-replaced them.


Gitstompa: Except greenskinz! Wez’d take dat fite to da ratties!


Ikkit Snowscoop: …Indeed…Gitstompa…indeed…


Story Three:

Ikkit Snowscoop:
…This-this scent-reminds of the time-time some fool-meat inverted the weather-thing chart predictions…


Gitstompa: Yoo mean dat time yoo squeaked dat da wevver wuld be hot an’ sunni?


Ikkit Snowscoop:


Gitstompa: An’ instead we ‘ad dat snow and dat squignado?


Ikkit Snowscoop: Point-thing is that first-firstly it was not-not my fault…


Gitstompa: …But yoo do yer own ree-serch and dat, cos yoo iz ‘da only best-best git ‘oo can do it’.


Ikkit Snowscoop: Point-thing is that first-firstly it was not-not my fault…secondly, misread-reading or not scent-seeing the nasty-bad forest-things for the tree-things can scent-happen. Even to fool-things like those toad-things.


Gitstompa: Dat toad-boy shoulda just got straight to da fightin’, all dis delay and finkin’…ugh…finkin’. Dey missed a great fite, like a sport commin-tater countin’ da antz crawlin’ on ‘iz reportin’ desk (and krumpin’ dem) and missin’ da Uggbag’z Blitzerz makin’ da touchdown dat won dem da Bloodbowl Grand Cup…


Ikkit Snowscoop: …I scent-thought they fire-sacked you for take-stealing Bloodbowl Bob’s Orca-Cola…


Gitstompa: …dat…dat didn’t help…


Ikkit Snowscoop: …we also must speak-squeak about how-how you have been scent-stealing my Skavenade…but yes-yes…a very cunning-smart way the author-meat dealt with the theme-thing.



Story Four:

Ikkit Snowscoop:
*Maniacal chittering laughter* Stupid dwarf-thing! Scent-serves it right-right! And that fool-meat of a Skaven…heheheheh…Oh I scent-like this one!


Gitstompa: …But dere woz little real krumpin’…


Ikkit Snowscoop: …But-but they were a writhing ball-thing of beard-fur and fur-fur and thrash-thrashing limb-meat. Sure-surely that was fight-thing enough, no-no?


Gitstompa: …But dere woz no blud or kumped in ‘eadz…none of dem gitz died…


Ikkit Snowscoop: But-but they had worse-worse fate-things…


Gitstompa:
Dey did?! Nah nah mate…da stunty iz no longer a stunty and seemz ta be dead killy now, and da rattie just made iz matez more krumpier…


Ikkit Snowscoop:
*Sighs* I scent-give up…Scent-look fool-meat listening to us. This piece-thing was silly-strange but was much-much enjoyable for it. You scent-have Ikkit’s vote-thing.


Gitstompa:
*Grumbles*
 
I wouldn't call it great storytelling, but it plays to beloved tropes and sometimes that's all we really need. :D

The other stories were so good, exploring interesting areas of lizardmen lore. The Long Wait was really beautifully written, I love the rain-drenched dark memory-hole vibe and the cool take on the subtle and strange Oxyotl mythos. A Perfect Plan is another one exploiting humorous skaven tropes, and I enjoyed the cuts back to the lizardmen perspective baffled at all the useless attacks. A Hidden Threat is well paced and well structured, the reader groaning with every misunderstanding of the slann, but also wondering if it could be right - right up until the end... an excellent exploration of the lizardmen's classic flaw of overthinking. I particularly enjoyed "the scent of pulverized itxi grubs".

Is it just me or did a vote move magically from one story to another just before the end? Can our gamemaster explain this anomaly??
 
A Hidden Threat is well paced and well structured, the reader groaning with every misunderstanding of the slann, but also wondering if it could be right - right up until the end... an excellent exploration of the lizardmen's classic flaw of overthinking. I particularly enjoyed "the scent of pulverized itxi grubs".

Much appreciated :)
 
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