How it Ends
The explosives of the mechanical men were placed under their armor, and could be reached by anyone foolish or brave enough to plunge a pistol barrel through a gigantic charging machine.
And so it was, amidst the rumble of musket fire, the distant battle cries and Trosdig’s unnecessarily harsh remarks at my brother. I watched Joram Nileous, the one we called Pal’lacon, or Old Spartan rush headlong at the nearest machine man as he plunged his musket’s bayonet under the gap in the armor, I heard the ring of the musket shot and then a flash of light, the rather expected but completely necessary warnings to take cover and then a period of momentary silence.
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