Status: Deadzone (Anthology)
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Status: Deadzone is a short story compilation edited by Marc Gascoigne and Andy Jones. In total there are eight authors contributing eleven stories that are all set in Hive Primus located on Necromunda. It was first published in 2000 but is now out of print.
Contents
Contents
A World Above
- by Alex Hammond
A spyrer hunt ambushes an unwitting Escher gang, but they didn't expect the resilience of a ganger named Knife Edge Liz.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #6
The Day of Thirst
Mother Dark, High Priestess of the Blood Coven calls in a deal with the Goliath Black Hand gang, but the Goliaths aren't prepared to pay up their due.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #6
Bad Spirits
A towering monster decimates a ratskin camp, but what could this monster be and what are its origins?
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #3
Badlands Skelter's Downhive Monster Show
Skelter's monster show rolls into Fever's Break, but Jago, leader of the Cawdor Light of Fury gang, are unimpressed to see them.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #11
Mark of a Warrior
Armed solely with a stub gun and knife, the Goliath juve must venture down into a Milliasaur infested mine as part of an initiation test.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #19
The Demon Bottle
- by Alex Hammond
The half-ratskin Sarak becomes embroiled in the devious plans of Otto Gunter the Guilder, but a spook induced daemon soon puts a spanner in the works.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #1
Rites of Passage
During an initiation test between Orlock and Cawdor new recruits, a highly experienced spyrer renegade stalks the shadows.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #4
The Lake
Due to misfortune, Lord Orl of the Brassers Orlock gang is reduced to harvesting the jewel eyes of the mulk spider that lurk in a purple slime lake beneath Red's Tower, but the lake has mysterious properties.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #9
Sisters
After losing her sister Katz to a suspected plague zombie attack, the Escher leader Blades sets off distraught to fell the beast.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #10
Rat in the Walls
- by Alex Hammond
The conclusion of Knife Edge Liz's story described in A World Above. Inside the Spire, Liz is helped and hired by a noble called Kassat Ran Lo, but all is not as it seems.
- Originally published in Inferno! issue #14
Descent
- by Simon Jowett
A story of the occupants of the sump submarine Queequeg, Vex the ex-Redemptionist Pastor, Kayne the spyrer hunter and the strange rumours of machine driven humans (Descent is by far the longest story, sprawling through roughly a third of the book).
Sources
| Novels | Necromunda (Novel Series) • Status: Deadzone (Inferno!) • Underhive: A Necromunda Anthology • Wanted: Dead • Terminal Overkill • Sinner's Bounty |
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| Comics | Kal Jerico • The Redeemer |
| Video Games | Necromunda: Underhive Wars • Necromunda: Hired Gun • Necromunda: Gang Skirmish |
