“Outside of the Northern Port of Tillea sits a mamouth colony of Nurgle Rotters. It is similar to the one you will find outside of any large city in the Old World. The sad fact is that despite the most advanced efforts by apothecaries to prevent the disease the number of infected grows every year. Normally, the infection can be traced from one individual to the next and thus follow a “genealogical line” back to some of the original carriers a millennia ago.

However, at times, the cause of the rot cannot be found. Lethal Kid is one such victim. The Kid was originally known as Cornelius “the Love Hammer” Hallivan. At the age of 16 he was drafted by Nuffle’s Knights to serve as the backup catcher. Due to his charisma, good looks, and ball handling abilities he quickly became a favorite of the Knight’s female fans.

Unfortunately, Hallivan only played two seasons and not once did they play against a Nurgle squad yet one day he noticed a broken finger that refused to heal. Soon it festered and in the coming months he self-diagnosed that he was infected with the rot. As the disease spread up his arm he took it upon himself to contact Coach Rbthma. Rbthma was the longest living rotter anyone had ever heard of and it was rumored that he had stopped the progress of the disease.

Rbthma examined the limb and confirmed that it was the rot. A tourniquet was placed above his bicep to kill the limb and then it was infused with an elixir produced in Rbthma’s lab. As with Rbthma, Hallivan was not cured, but the progress of the disease slowed dramatically. Rbthma’s diagnosis is that he has a decade before the disease infects his brain.

Once he resigned himself to his fate, “the Love Hammer” moved on in life. In fact he embraced the rot and changed his name to Lethal Kid before moving to the colony outside of Tillea. He immediately realized that a one armed catcher would be useless so he turned to coaching. In the colony he found more talent than he imagined and decided to found a team he innocuously titled The Common Cold.

Rbthma and the Kid have kept in touch so when the Archers of Avelon reached Tilea an introduction was made and a match was arranged. The Common Cold was more dangerous than it first appeared. Eight Archers were knocked out over the course of the match and three other were either badly hurt or seriously injured. Flat footed and unprepared, the Archers of Avelon suffered a lop sided 2-1 defeat.

When the Archer wagon train resumed its journey to Tillea the mood had swung from the high after an unexpectedly good game in the Valley of Shadow to the low of simply being thrashed.

Before climbing back into the baggage cart, Kondor thanked Rbthma for introducing him to the Kid. With any luck he would be able to schedule a rematch and see the elves pounded once again.
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