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Result: Major Victory for Nighthaunt

Summary

The waters of the Shadowtide Lake were still, an eerie layer of mist sitting atop them. Below its outwardly tranquil waters there lay a nightmarish secret, a warren of tunnels and caves filled with the experiments of the Skaven Great Clan Moulder. Skittering around through darkness lit only by green glowing warpstone lamps, Master Moulder Squirk had been constructing his laboratory away from prying eyes. But the eyes of the Great Necromancer are sleepless, and his wrath would soon befall the ratkin of the lake.

After the humiliation of the forces of Death in the Forgotten Forest, the Skaven had taken to hiring Chaos Warriors as the forces of Death would send silent assassins to take revenge upon the ratmen for their hubris. This kept the monstrous tanks of Squirk safe but further drew the ire of the Great Necromancer. Summoning his spirits under the command of Dybrastius Khurn, a long tortured knight sworn to oaths not even he can remember. A great host of Nighthaunt was drawn towards the lake, silent and invisible as they progressed towards the Skaven stronghold.

Before launching their ambush Khurn and the Nighthaunt cast foul rituals drawing in the magic of Ulgu to the bottom of the lake and the hollows below – filling the tunnels with unnatural and terrifying darkness. As Skaven sentries squeaked and let out the musk of fear the Nighthaunt launched their attack. Ghostly shackles and blades corporating out of the air in front of now terrified ratmen and the tunnels reeked of fear as they fled for their lives. The Skaven thought themselves prepared for any attack but whether through some foul magic of shadow or due to their incompetence their technology utterly failed. Warp Lightning canons overloaded, green lightning disintegrating any close enough to them, the tunnels scorched or collapsed around them.

Attempting to bring order to the chaos Grey Seer Ustencratch brought up Squirk with his largest Rat Ogors to smash the spectral assault. Only when they engaged some terror of the spirits took them and though few beasts were felled, the rest scattered into the tunnels around. Ustencratch screamed in frustration cursing the incompetence of the Moulder forces and fled to bring news of this betrayal to the rest of the Skaven forces in Ulgu. After several days of hunting down every last rat within the laboratory, the ghosts of the Nighthaunt were eventually called back to Shyish. Leaving a completely silent once more – now only the corpses of hundreds of Skaven filled the bottom of the lake…

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