(Extra chapter thanks to a tip from Genius Club #Big Black Tower.)
"Gretchin Majek, Gretchin Majek, we sincerely pray to you! Send us Horse Monkey that will make Gretchin happy!"
Li Qinwu's soul inhabited the distinctly plastic-looking doll.
Through the eyes the Gretchin had drawn on the rice cooker, he stared at the vast crowd kneeling before him. It took him a good while to grasp what had happened.
It seemed the Gretchin had dragged his soul here with their Waaagh! Field!
The Waaagh! Field was the Greenskin Orks' own form of Psychic Power, which held nearly limitless possibilities in the Warhammer universe.
An Ork Waaagh! Field could alter the rules of Realspace to a remarkable degree. A gun cobbled together from junk should never fire, but if the Orks thought it could, it could!
By the same token, if the Gretchin believed Gretchin Majek truly existed and began praying to him, then Gretchin Majek really would exist!
The tens of thousands of Gretchin gathered here all believed in Gretchin Majek. Their prayers generated Waaagh Energy that converged on Li Qinwu, leaving him to bear all the consequences.
The washbasin-sized mass of energy Li Qinwu had seen in his mental world was the Votive Power produced by their prayers.
And because he had answered that Votive Power, his soul had been drawn into the junk doll the Gretchin had built, even though the Hideout had yet to finish shaping his body.
Once he understood what had happened, Li Qinwu wanted nothing more than to leave the doll. He had no desire to spend eternity trapped inside a toy!
He struggled for a while and discovered that the junk doll had almost no mobility. He could move only its head and the hand holding the plastic magic wand, and even those