In the last game, the abomination Haas pressed the party to avenge his death, by killing his girlfriend's father Hogarth. While the party discussed helping him, the sanctuary's midwife Wren came to the cellar to see the abomination for herself.
As Haas and the party are finalizing the plan for revenge, the midwife who lectured the mob from the catwalk comes to the wine cellar and takes a hard look at Haas. She interrupts the conversation to check his pulse and breath like the characters did, then tiredly rubs her face with her hands, and says to herself that the situation is worse than the rumors. She tells Haas and the party that word is spreading in the sanctuary that Alissa's boyfriend came to the sanctuary as a fugitive and that the mob was there for him; and that the mob is going to come back for him. Also, the cannon fire deaths are drawing all sorts of attention, including the Hue and Cry, to the scene. She suggests that Haas go to another safe house with her immediately, without Alissa or anyone else seeing him, and offers him her cloak to cover himself. If they use a little stealth they can sneak out of the sanctuary through the sewer.
Haas seems to know her already, calling her by name, Wren, and saying he now relies on her kindness. But, he insists that he must have vengeance on Alissa's father and the people who resurrected him first, and that he'll meet her at the safe house afterward.
To soothe the party's moral qualms about revenge killing, Haas told them that he was wealthy and could pay them, and they went to his apartment in the financial district. Since he had fled Meade Hospital naked, Haas didn't have the key, so they tailgated into the building and picked the lock to Haas's unit. Once inside Haas gave each character 150 gold pieces in payment, and gave Kasskar his +1 Charisma Ring of Glamour.
Haas then led them to an alley where some of Braddock's homeless slept, next to the Jade brothel and across from the Mooncalf hostel. They saw Hogarth's gang huddled around a fire, discussing a nail they'd found and how they hoped to sell it to at the shipyard.
Haas immediately headed over to stab Hogarth. Realizing that Hogarth was homeless and desperate, Kasskar and Prosper now decided against attacking, but Aeris and Beowolf resolved to go ahead. Hogarth's gang recognized Haas and rallied. Despite their desperate situation, Hogarth's gang hadn't sold the weapons they'd used on Haas and now used them on the party - knives, a bat, and a wooden handle with a sharpened nail in it.
Hogarth's gang included:
The gang members had the stats of guards and veterans, and each had powers a homeless person would have.
Despite the gang's howling rage, Haas, Aeris, and Beowolf killed three of them, including Hogarth and Belinda. Anticipating going to the hospital lab where Haas had been resurrected, Aeris loaded the bodies in a cart to take along.
Haas then took the party to Meade Hospital to find the people who'd experimented on him. With a little effort, Haas refound the room where he'd awoken with wires attached to him, on the hospital's top floor.
But there were no experimenters there. Aeris tried to replicate the experiment that resurrected Haas using Belinda's body, but without success.
Searching further, they eventually came to a dark room, where they lit their lanterns and torches. There, they met another test subject, Ignatius.
In a far corner of the room, the party also sees a pale man in a paper hospital gown, pacing. You can see that the top of his skull has been cut off, and a large metal box, about the size of a shoebox, has been mounted on top of his head. Dozens of spiky iron probes come out one end of the box and they've been pushed down into his exposed brain. There is a huge bundle of wires - about as thick as a fire hose and maybe 100 feet long - coming from the other end of the box. The bundle kind of droops from his head to a pile of slack on the floor, then the other end goes up to a connection on the ceiling.
When the man sees the party, there's an electrical crackle in the box, and he moves instantly across the room, essentially teleporting, and attacks one of them.
Ignatius had these stats, and the additional powers:
The party fought Ignatius and defeated him. But while they fought, the experimenters who'd raised Ignatius came in and saw what was happening, but quickly ran out of the room again.
Steve and Kelly weren't at this game, so we decided that Beowolf and Prosper would and wouldn't (respectively) attack Hogarth's gang, based on their alignments.
