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Is that so much to ask…there, there…alright, I’m…it ’s alright…’  \n***something that might be a sob, quickly choked off***  \n‘…my name is Shevyn Thale. I’m…I’m a manufactorum logisticus adept third class in the Forge Endurance. On Nemendghast. Ifyou find this servo-skull, ifyou access the recording, I’m on Nemendghast and…well, what am I doing? Why am I even bothering? I suppose because I have to believe that something will come after this, that our sufering isn’t the end of everything. The Emperor has a purpose for all ofus, doesn’t he?  \nOf course he does.  \nOf course he does. ’  \n***background distortion, something that might be screams, something else that is very definitely an explosion***  \n‘Oh Emperor, oh please…you can hear it, can’t you? The beginning ofthe end? I am recording this so that someone, one day, might know that we stayed loyal. We fought the rising tide, the cults, the doomsayers and the… things…that they conjured up to hunt us. Do you hear this clearly, whoever you are? Do you understand? Nemendghast stayed loyal to the  \nvery end! ’  \n***more distortion, closer. Another sound more difficult to pin down, a background hum and whine that at times seems almost to become vocal in nature. Several moments of muffled rustling and thumping that may indicate movement***  \n‘Soon there won’t be anywhere…anywhere safe…oh Throne…come on, come on, just…this nightmare began…Emperor, just weeks ago. Itfeels like lifetimes, but there it is. Weeks, sidereal. First there were the dreams, and the mutterings in the administrative sanctums and the halls of signatories. A handful of adepts stopped showing up for their shifts, just one here, one there, but it got so that after a while you noticed. We didn’t say anything, of course, not during duty hours. The adepts second class were always prowling the aisles, and no-one wanted their ration dockets stripped. But on the processionals before and after shift, in the queues for nutrient packs, people whispered. About nightmares they kept having, of our world falling into shadow, offlames consuming the skies, of the hungry things with the too-wide smiles that hunted them through their dreams.  \nThe disappearances got worse. Then came the proclamation ofmartial law. That was the doing of the cults, the first time they tried to rise up. Heretic filth got what they deserved, in Sutter’s Sump, in the Forge Indomitable, even here in Endurance. But still, you got to wondering, how could heretic cults have flourished at all, and what had prompted them all to rise at once the way they did? And so, the proclamation. Curfews. Bans on gatherings numbering more than three people outside ofplaces oftoil and  \nlabour. Unenforceable ofcourse, but they tried. Things got bloody, and still more people were turning up missing every day. I… Throne, what was that?’  \n***sounds of fast, shallow breathing. A slight vocalisation that might be a whimper. The murmuring and whispering grow louder until individual words are almost legible. Another sound joins the background distortion, a low rumble that slowly builds in volume***  \n‘…I think they ’re gone…those…things…are everywhere now. I won’t name them. The Preachers said that to name these things is to attract their attention and to give them power…it hardly matters now, I suppose, but blessed Emperor I don’t want to die…I don’t… Why is this happening tous?... alright…alright before the stormfront reaches me…’  \n***the rumble is growing louder in the background. More screaming. The dull and now unmistakable thump of explosions. Gunfire. Repeated cracks that might be lightning strikes***  \n‘It was when the skies went sour, that was when the tech-magi and the Arbitrators lost control. They issued edicts banning citizensfrom looking skywards on pain ofimmediate execution, but how could you not se","cbCaiuqKOb8cxETZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuqKOb8cxETZ","pdf",1515541,"English","# The Last Day\n## The recording and the narrator\n## Mart ial law, cults, and disappearances\n## The skies go sour and the warp storm","[{\"question\":\"Who is Shevyn Thale, and why is the recording made?\",\"answer\":\"Shevyn Thale is a manufactorum logisticus adept third class on Nemendghast. The recording is made so someone one day will know they stayed loyal and fought to the very end.\"},{\"question\":\"What events lead to the breakdown of order?\",\"answer\":\"Adepts stop showing up, people whisper about nightmares, disappearances worsen, and martial law is proclaimed with curfews and bans on gatherings. 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