{"id":2004,"date":"2026-11-05T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:33:19","slug":"chapter-38-the-shorb330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/11\/05\/chapter-38-the-shorb330\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 38 The Shorb330"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/11\/04\/chapter-38-the-shorb329\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page330 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/11\/06\/chapter-38-the-shorb331\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>cooks. All non combatants are detained separately from the regular pirates. Have them help you bring all the food and drink onto the quayside. Don\u2019t let them out of your sight. If you have any trouble call on one of the marines for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cooks are both in their mid forties and overweight. They\u2019ve obviously ensured that they\u2019ve been well fed! They seem quite indifferent to their capture, and it hasn\u2019t done anything to quell their fiery tempers. They probably know that they just have to keep their noses clean and that after a short detention they\u2019ll be offered a chance of resettlement in Wolfland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s not my missus,\u201d says OverGroan, \u201cbut she\u2019s handy with her fists!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShut up Ryan!\u201d says Vortex, \u201clet\u2019s just get those stores unloaded and then maybe we\u2019ll get a meal break!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the next hour or so MaxChaos discovers that OverGroan does like to grumble about things, but that Vortex complains even more, and with an intense level of fury befitting her name. It turns out that both of them have heard of <em>The Shorb<\/em>. It seems to be a myth which is widely known throughout the BlackCircle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did you hear about <em>The Shorb<\/em>?\u201d asks MaxChaos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BlackCircle quartermaster in Boot,\u201d says OverGroan, \u201che has hundreds of stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MaxChaos continues, \u201cso does <em>The Shorb <\/em>actually exist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWasn\u2019t it destroyed in a fire?\u201d asks OverGroan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it was,\u201d says Vortex, \u201ctell us the story the way you heard it, and then I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Shorb <\/em>was a magical device which could capture sunlight and turn it into electricity! Work on <em>The Shorb<\/em> started at the University of Waterloo soon after The Decimation. Then, about a year after Professor Schr\u00f6dinger had started his research, when sea levels kept rising, and kept flooding the campus, the whole University had to be abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe local militias fought a battle to grab whatever loot they could find. Waterloo\u2019s own militia was no match for the<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/11\/04\/chapter-38-the-shorb329\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page330 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/11\/06\/chapter-38-the-shorb331\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page330 \u2013 Next cooks. All non combatants are detained separately from the regular pirates. Have them help you bring all the food and drink onto the quayside. Don\u2019t let them out of your sight. If you have any trouble call on one of the marines for help.\u201d The cooks are both in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/11\/05\/chapter-38-the-shorb330\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 38 The Shorb330&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}