Diversity Hires, part 13: Yan Again

We last saw our heroes exploring a particularly disgusting haunted mansion.

After a cursory look at the rest of the house, which was mostly covered in shit and chaos bees, we left. Mormacar set the building on fire, and we headed for the hedge maze.

The first few layers of the maze were incinerated by Gildiril's fireballs, but after we disturbed some surprisingly belligerent flowers, Burlok took over and navigated to the centre. There we found a hideous domed fleshy mass, which opened at our approach like a giant sphincter, something none of us wanted to see.

There was no other option for getting into the plague temple though, so we followed Mormacar's example and dived in. The initial horror was followed by a significantly less awful stone staircase. We proceeded cautiously through a series of rooms, carefully avoiding touching anything (we had quite enough diseases between us already, not that any of us knew that yet) except for a crazed prisoner in a cell. We put him out of his misery/insanity without getting too close and continued on our way.

At last we reached the temple itself, where some kind of ceremony was happening involving Karl, Yan (who was somehow still not dead despite having definitely been killed before) and some other guy, presumably the high priest. There were also a bunch of mutants. We paused briefly to plan our attack and for Gildiril to magic up our weapons.

The high priest proved rather unpleasant to attack, covering Mormacar in bees when he tried it, so we focused ranged attacks on Yan while the melee fighters took out the various mutants. We’d made significant progress when two more vampires showed up. They weren’t Sophia’s friends - in fact they were from two different vampire teams. Making the fight into a sort of bizarre five-way with us, three different vampires, and the plague cultists.

By the end, the high priest was dead, Yan had done his turning into a monster thing again and left through a hole in the wall, and we were left negotiating terms with the three vampires regarding Karl. There was some kind of truce between the vampires preventing them attacking each other, but none of them were comfortable leaving Karl with any of the others. Finally it was agreed by one of the new arrivals that Karl would stay with us, providing one of the party acted as the vampire’s agent, and that Sophia left. Burlok, who was interested in vampirism but had been rejected by the sexy lesbian vampire clan for reasons, volunteered.

All three vampires departed (much to Frida’s disappointment) and we were left with Karl.

What next?

And that's where we left things, with most of the party infected with multiple diseases, and Frida...well, that's between me and the GM.  However you're supposed to play this campaign, I'm pretty sure this wasn't it.  But we had a bloody good laugh.