This story is currently only available within Inferno! Volume Three.
A much-deserved sequel to the excellent Mazlocke’s Cantrip of Superior Substitution, Graeme Lyon’s Blood Bowl short story Dismember the Titans returns to the characters of Juliana and Johann, now the Talabheim Titans’ star Blitzer/Catcher duo. Death is a workplace hazard for Blood Bowl players, but it usually happens on the pitch and in front of a crowd, not in secret. When their fellow players start turning up very dead, and minus some body parts, it falls to Juliana and Johann to investigate and try to find out who it is that has a grudge against the Titans, and why.
This time the action happens off the pitch, with no actual Blood Bowl taking place. That’s one of the joys of this setting, though – that it provides an opportunity for madcap adventures featuring blood, guts and copious violence with a distinct sense of humour, whether actual sport is involved or not. All of the above feature heavily in this story, and it’s all gloriously silly yet tremendously entertaining. A (platonic) couple of great characters, a daft but strangely believable plot, a dash of Old World nostalgia and lashings of typical Blood Bowl puns (bonus points for the Zavant reference) proving that Warhammer stories can be fun too – what’s not to like?
