After defeating the Giant Zombie the adventures are exhausted, but not dead. As the dust settles they notice that Marcello is missing! Boko yells his name over and over again, but all they hear is the echo 'ello', 'ello'...
They spend a few moments to rest and drink a single potion of cure light wounds each before continuing into the horrible city. The area is eerily quiet and a subtle fog envelops everything.
Finally the group continue down the street and come around a bend. As they make the turn they see a single female warrior fighting a zombie. Frank and Boko immediately start to run up to help defend her. But as they approach a number of other zombies start to come out of the woodwork it seems. They start to fight a large group of zombies now.
The paladin the adventurers fought was Ashlyn, a member of the Lightbringers company, worshiper of Lathander.
Finally Boko manages to barricade a couple of the entrances the zombies were coming out of, so that they can speak with the female. She introduces herself as a paladin of Desna. She says she is part of a larger group.
After speaking to the female for a while, she is smitten with Vanni and flirts with her. Offering to heal all our wounds for a kiss. Vanni doesn't feel too comfortable with this, but we are wounded!
Then we decide to explore the church at the top of the hills since all other paths through the village are barricaded. In the church the party finds a large hole with a crazy priest next to it. A fight ensues and all the bad guys are killed. The party determines that something in the hole is the source of the evil corruption that took over the city.
At the local church, they fought Donovish a priest mad in grief for the lost of his son. He performed a dark ritual (you found the details of how to perform the ritual). The ritual went wrong and spread a zombie infestation in town. Now you must face the source of evil that lies at the basement of the church.
Frank was very helpful with his katana, slicing and dicing zombies just like in The Walking Dead TV show!