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To Hurl Back the Darkness

October 2019·p. 59

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Three short actions illustrate the Sisterhood’s different methods: hunting a smuggler-witch, holding a psychic installation against daemons and assassinating an Ork Warphead. The final account makes their ruthless priorities explicit when an Imperial unit is exposed to draw guards away from the real target.

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