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Since they first began to appear in the abandoned dwarven homeland of Connemara, one of the burning questions in Irish society has been “how did the dwarves turn into Fomorians?”
A corrupt dwarven scientist decides that petty morality is no object to experimenting on humans to discover this. And some Fomorians object to this, handing the test subjects over to the military for safekeeping.
Find out what happens next.
She couldn’t move. Her heart pounded in time with the squeak of the trolley wheels as she struggled futilely against the straps that dug into her limbs and chest. The sharp smell of antiseptic assaulted her nostrils, growing ever stronger, and stronger, and-
“Feisty bitch, ain’t she?” somebody remarked. Her head twisted upwards and to the right, eyes locking onto the dwarf who leered at her, exposing teeth that were stained from smoking tea. Emblazoned on his right chest was that logo – that rounded vertical rectangle around those three letters.
- A Nightmare – Siobhán, an escaped victim of the laboratory, grappling with PTSD and ruminating on her fellow escapee Diarmuid.
- Board Report – the Connacht Trading Company’s board of executives receives an unpleasant report of shenanigans on Cruagh Island.
- Interception of An Enciphered Message From Orc-held Territory – the British military consider it impossible for orcs to be capable of building a radio, and yet somebody is sending encrypted messages from their territory!
- Big Head Mode Is Not Conducive To Effective Scouting – banshees scouting out the area near Cruagh Island run into an amusing phenomenon.
- Infiltration – Fomorian raiders sneak onto Cruagh Island.
- Fomoritis Confirmed – Siobhán and Diarmuid learn that they have, in fact, been turned into orcs. They don’t take it well.
- The Dwarven Inquisition Are Expected – the dwarves want to know what happened.
- Fomorians in Their Own Words: “Mstr D” – Diarmuid puts his thoughts on the whole affair to paper.