It is the year 2516 and the Halflings are hungry…

Failed harvests and overconsumption have led to famine and food riots in the Great Southern Moot.

A state of martial law has been declared by Chief Elder Vilos Cohaagen-Dasz.
Cohaagen-Dasz has vowed to bring down his iron ladle on Halflings convicted of “Crimes of Consumption”, demanding the local judiciary impose long sentences of hard labour and, in extreme cases, Eggxcution (death by egging) for those found to be taking more than their fair share.

With more and more citizens being sentenced daily, the prisons and egg farms of the Great Southern Moot are at breaking point. Opportunistic Cabalvision executives, excited by tales of turmoil and terror, have travelled to the south and approached Cohaggen-Dasz with an audacious solution to the dual problems of a growing prison population and declining public morale: the creation of a new reality Cabalvision program called “The Running Fling”.

Cabalvision will create and sponsor a Halfling team, the “Bakersfield Butchers”, to compete in the most notorious league of the Old World, the Southern Sands Legacy League. The Southern Sands have never fielded a Halfling team before (and with good reason: a Halfling on a Blood Bowl pitch is a strawberry-stain in waiting!)

In turn, Cohaagen-Dasz will authorise any convicted criminal on death row or serving 10+ years hard labour to be made available to the producers of The Running Fling to fill the roster of this new team. These players will be known as “Runners”.

The Runners are expected to meet a gloriously gruesome death on the pitch for the entertainment of ravenous Cabalvision viewers; however, they can earn their freedom and a lifetime supply of the Empire's finest delicacies if they can survive long enough to earn the title of "Legend".

Hunting them down will be the “Stalkers” - the very best killers that the teams of the Southern Wastes have to offer. These Stalkers will be competing for kills in the hope that at seasons end they will earn their very own title: “Stalker of the Season”.

The Runners won’t be all alone at the mercy of the Stalkers; helping them thrive and survive will be two Treemen bodyguards who have volunteered to join the show on the promise that if they become legendary, they will be transformed into “real men" by Cabalvision's finest wizards. These Treemen have been fitted with unbreakable incendiary devices to help motivate them on their quest to humanhood!

For our runners the choice is simple: Hard Time or Prime Time!!!