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Session 1: The Karisiri

After receiving Agustus Larkin's telegram, Don Gallico, Everett Day, Clarence Lester Noble, Mylo Buckett and Arthur Underhill flew to Peru and checked into their rooms at the Hotel Maury. When they arrived at the Bar Cordano they were greeted by Augustus Larkin, the expedition leader, Luis de Mendoza, his assistant, and Jesse Hughes, a very personable folklorist from New York and additional member of the team. Larkin explained that the goal of the expedition was to locate and explore the site of a ruined pyramid that he had learned about from an alpaca farmer in the highlands near Lake Titicaca. The farmer had sold him two artifacts that his grandfather had retrieved from the site. The old man said that the tunnels beneath the pyramid were filled with such items but had not returned because it was a cursed and evil place - which sparked some discussion on how superstitions often grow larger than life but are mostly based in some sort of fact. Mylo noticed that the 2 items Larkin had procured came from 2 different times and cultures: the first being a pendant from Tiwanaku in the 5th century and the second being a golden cup of Incan origin from the 15th century. He also noticed that while Larkin's accent seemed British that he detected a distinct Kenyan quality about it. Larkin uncomfortably confirmed his suspicions, saying that his grandfather had been one of the large railroad magnates in Kenya and that he had left his family to make a life for himself on his own. Looking a little pale and sweaty (and with a noticeable tremor which Everett accredited to opiate withdrawal), Larkin excused himself for the evening and told the group that they would be leaving for Puno on Monday morning via 3 trucks that he had rented and if they needed him in the meantime both he and deMendoza had rooms at the Hotel Espana. Jesse invited the gentlemen for an after dinner drink at the bar, while Don followed Larkin and deMendoza to their hotel - seeing them go up to the 2nd floor before joining the others. 

 

Over drinks, Jesse confided in the group that his real name was Jackson Elias and that he was an author who specialized in writing about Death Cults in remote areas of the world. He explained that while doing some research he came across old legends about the Kharisiri - gaunt, white men who lured highlands farmers away from their families to suck the fat out of their bodies. Stories of disappearances happen to this day in the areas where the legends started - and he thinks that there may be a death cult committing ritual sacrifices that came over from Spain with the Conquistadors and has survived to this day. While doing further research for his book around Puno, he heard about Larkin's expedition and decided to sign up. He also said that he had become friendly with Professor Nemesio Sanchez at the Museo de Arqueologia y Antropologia. The Professor is the foremost authority on Peru's ancient civilizations and had tried to join with the expedition but had been ignored by Larkin repeatedly. He told them that the Professor had discovered some mentions of the site in an old tome and had his research assistant, Trinidad Rizo writing up a summary of their findings - and invited them to join him the next day to meet with them. Then the group retired to the hotel where Don, Clarence, Mylo and Arthur stayed and chatted in the hotel bar for a while discussing each other's backgrounds and the situation they found themselves in. 

 

The next day the men went about their morning routines, some having breakfast, some site seeing a little, some shopping at the local market and Mylo attending church. Don found his way over the Museum early and scoped out the Professor's office - seeing him and a young woman working from a very old looking book - before joining Jesse/Jackson and the rest to officially go to the meeting that afternoon. At the meeting, the Professor welcomed them all to Peru and answered some questions about the artifacts that they had been shown by Larkin - confirming Mylo's suspicions of their origins. He told them that he thought Larkin was planning to loot the site extensively - which is probably the reason that his requests to join the expedition had been refuted. A colleague requested to speak with him a moment so he excused himself, asking the men to go to the basement and assist Rizzo with whatever items she was retrieving down there for their meeting while he was gone. Don stayed behind, listening to the Professors talk in Spanish outside the office while the rest of the team went in search of Rizzo.

 

They found her mummified body drained of all moisture under a pile of artifacts and papers that had fallen from one of the shelves in the Storeroom. There was a large bloody disc of flesh cut away from her upper chest. In her pocket were her notes on the Final Confessions of Gaspar Figueroa. Next to her they found a crate that had been pried open which contained a large length of worked gold with a small piece of freshly burnt skin that had been melted onto the item. Clarence, Everett (and Jackson Elias) stayed behind to examine Trinidad's notes while Arthur and Mylo went in search of the Professor.

 

Meanwhile, upstairs, Don heard a crash and muffled voices coming from the office and when he ventured inside found Louis deMendoza mouth-to-mouth with the Professor, who had been shoved against the wall, and his colleague unconscious on the floor. He tried in vain to shoot or pull deMendoza off the Professor and tripped over his colleague's body on the floor as deMendoza turned his attention to him and pinned him to the ground. deMendoza's mouth had become distended and sprouted a row of sharp hook-like barbs that he tried to dig into Don's chest with. As Arthur and Mylo reached the scene - they joined the struggle. deMendoza attacked each man but was driven off several times. Hearing the gunshot downstairs Clarence and Everett ran to the scene. The sight of deMendoza sent Everett over the edge and he dropped Trinidad's research and ran out of the building in fear for his life. Between the 4 remaining gentlemen, they were able to fight off deMendoza, with Arthur skewering him with his sword cane - and beheading him for good measure. Jackson Elias arrived at the scene just as deMedoza head fell to the ground asking "What did I miss?"

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Session 2: The Head

Everett came to his senses outside in the gardens in front of the Museum and noticed a couple staring at him over near a tree. He ran to them and tried to speak with them but they only spoke Spanish so eventually his paranoia drove him to return to the safety of the cafe near their hotel. 

 

Inside the Musuem, Mylo and Arthur decided it was prudent to search the body (Mylo finding de Mendoza's hotel key), photograph evidence of what had happened, collect the length of worked gold from the storeroom and retreat before a lengthly police investigation began. Don went in search of the book he had seen the professor and his research student working out of earlier. He didn't see it in the Professor's office, but did witness Everett fleeing the area. As he attempted to follow him - he saw the Final Confessions of Gaspar Figueroa in the bushes outside the window of the office where the attack occurred. Meanwhile, Jackson Elias and Clarence checked on Professor Sanchez and found him to be still breathing. They also saw something large and unnatural moving around in his abdomen. Clarence went to assist the others, while Don and Jackson found a first aid kit and induced the Professor to vomit up a slimy fist size maggot - which Don blew away. Not wanting to leave incriminating evidence of who was beheaded behind, the group tossed Luis de Mendoza's head into the crate with the gold and made a retreat out of the back of the building, with Jackson Elias calling an ambulance for the Professor and Clarence pulling fire alarms along the way to create a distraction. 

 

They went back to the Hotel Maury to drop off the evidence in Arthur's room and then split up with Don and Clarence going to the Hotel Espana to search de Mendoza's room and maybe confront Augustus Larkin and Arthur, Mylo and Jackson going in search of Everett. Don and Clarence breezed by the old woman looking after the lobby and went up into de Mendoza's room at the end of the hall on the 2nd floor. Inside, the room was clean - in fact free of any luggage, clothes, or anything showing that someone was staying there. Clarence checked under the mattress, and found  golden mirror (a geometrical mask on one side and a polished gold mirror on the other) and decided to take it. They went out onto the balcony and could see someone (possibly Larkin) asleep and tangled in the sheets next door - but decided not to disturb them and went back to their hotel. Meanwhile, the search party found Everett drawing disturbing pictures in his journal at the cafe and convinced him join them all back at the hotel for a drink.

 

In the hotel bar, they began to discuss what had happened that day (and what was in de Mendoza's hotel room) but decided to retreat to Arthur's room as to not be overheard and to have a chance to look at the mirror and read over Trinidad's Notes on The Final Confessions of Gaspar Figueroa. In the room, after reading the notes, they decided to inspect the head for signs of a gunshot wound as mentioned in the text. When they opened the crate, the head, which had jostled around, was burnt from where it had come into contact with the gold in the crate. After some experimentation, they found that the gold was cold to the touch but caused a burning reaction when touched to the head - though other golden items (like the mirror) did not have any effect. Everett, with insane enthusiasm, began to examine the head, noticing that the burns had already started to heal slightly and called for exploratory surgery. As he dissected the head, he removed samples of the barb like teeth and portions of the brain (in which he found no bullet or scar tissue) and kept them in mason jars they retrieved from the hotel bar. They decided not to confront Larkin just yet - but to go along with the expedition as planned and keep a watchful eye on him (and Everett who clearly was not dealing well with the situation) - and they would bring the head as leverage in case they needed to prove themselves to Larkin later.

 

The next day, Larkin was disturbed that de Mendoza had not shown up but insisted that they leave for Puno on time - leaving word for him at the hotel. The 1st days ride was uneventful (aside from Mylo catching a glimpse of some large circular tattoo on Larkin's chest as he slept - and Everett not being receptive to Don's offer to help him recover through hypnosis). The next morning, the group checked on the head and its parts - the head itself was beginning to heal and the brain specimen to grow (though the teeth showed no signs of regeneration). They decided to try and dispose of it that evening after all - and Everett wanted to ride in Larkin's truck that day to see if proximity to him affected the rate of the growth.

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Session 3: The Strangers

The 2nd day's travel to Puno went without incident - though Mylo noticed that Larkin continued to sleep through most the of the journey. After riding in the truck with him, Everett checked on the brain specimen and found that it had continued to grow at a rate consistent with the previous day. The group spoke after dinner that night and decided to see if Larkin reacted to the length of worked gold the same way that Luis de Mendoza had. They chipped off a small piece of the gold and Don attached it to some string that he uses in his magic shows. He crept into the opening of Larkin's tent where he lay asleep in a daze of heroin. He was bare-chested and Don was able to see the full scope of his tattoo: a large, ragged spiral radiating out from the center of his sternum and ending above his diaphragm, where it connects to a stylized, misshapen humanoid figure with large, outstretched hands that appear to end in claws. He tossed the piece of gold onto Larkin - and within 30 seconds Larkin batted at it as if it were a mosquito.

 

During the 3rd day's journey, the team kept an eye out on the drivers - who didn't seem to do anything suspicious. When the arrived in Puno, Larkin arranged small hotel rooms for them all and told them he would meet them for dinner later that evening. Jackson Elias helped Arthur procure a new room away from the rest of the group where they felt more secure keeping some of their more 'undercover' items. The group decided to break up the length of gold into pieces that could more easily be transported via pack animals. While Clarence and Everett stayed behind to watch the room, Don and Arthur went in search of a blacksmith and hired him to inlay some weapons and bullets with the gold - and Jackson and Mylo went in search of Jackson's friend Nayra, a yatriri who had helped Jackson with his research into the Karisiri the last time he was in Puno. Her neighbor told them that she had gone to stay with friends on the floating islands in Lake Titticaca. They decided that the whole group would go to visit her the next day while Larkin was making final arrangements for their hike to the ruins.

 

At diner that night, Arthur noticed a teenager watching the group -but he quickly disappeared into the crowds. Larkin told them some of the local legends centered around Lake Titicaca: According to the Incas, it was the birthplace of humanity. In times past, the god Viracocha—also known as Con-Tici—rose from the waters, carrying humans with him. The people of the region saw the lake itself as a goddess— Mamacota or Mother-water—and erected an idol in her honor. When the Spaniards conquered the area, they saw this worship as pagan, but worship of the goddess continued and all that all they could do was replace her idol with a statue of the Virgin Mary. She is still venerated to this day.

 

The next day Clarence and Arthur went to retrieve the items they had left with the blacksmith and picked up some eggs, which they had painted, as a thank you for Nayra - while Evertt, Don, Mylo and Jackson headed to the shores of Lake Titicaca where Jackson arranged 2 boats to be rented for the day. While at the pier, Don noticed a teenage boy and a woman watching Jackson intently from the market area. When the rest of the group arrived, they started rowing to the island where Nayra was staying - and Arthur noticed the 2 strangers watching them again (recognizing the teenager from the night before). They decided to speak with Nayra but to propose that they try to escort her away from the island when they left - in case the people watching meant her harm. 

 

When they reached the island, the fisherman who lived on the island showed them which hut Nayra was staying in. She was delighted to meet the group - and to receive the eggs. Being a trickster, she offered Arthur some freshly made jerky - which turned out to be tree bark. Then she offered some real jerky to the group as Jackson told her the reason for their visit. She gathered them around her chair on the floor and began to tell them about the Karisiri legends.

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Session 4: The Yatiri

Nayra told a story about how an ancient and evil god fell from the sky and landed in Lake Titicaca. The trickster hero Ekeko convinced the god to crawl into an old armadillo burrow. He then placed stones over the burrow, trapping the god below and told the people that this was now a sacred site and had them build a temple over it, binding it in place with “spells worked in gold.” When the team told her about the boy and woman who were following them, she seemed worried that either the old legends about the Kharisiri all being old, thin, white men weren't true or that their influence was spreading. She also told them that the only way to destroy one was either to dismember it completely or burn it. They showed her The Golden Mirror - but after looking into it, she dropped it saying that it was a thing of evil and had shown her a pyramid on a barren plain being cracked open by long tentacles that dropped crawling maggots from it as they emerged. Don looked into the mirror and saw a similar vision - along with the image of someone feverishly painting the scene in an old attic and a orgy-like ritual being performed under the night sky that climaxed with the appearance of a giant entity similar to the tattoo they had seen on Larkin over the mountain.

 

Before they could discuss anything further, Don heard what sounded like a boat docking behind the hut. He and Arthur went to investigate and discovered the boy, the woman and a strange man in wait behind the hut. A battle began between them and the kharsiri. Mylo, Everett and Jackson Elias ran out to join them while Clarence stayed behind to protect Nayra. Unfortunately, when Everett saw that they faced 3 of the creatures, his fear took over and he began to flee to the other end of the island - rousing the other islanders who restrained him as he jumped into the water and started to flail. Jackson retreated back to the hut to assist Clarence while the other 3 men took care of the kharisiri - with Arthur beheading them all. Nayra gathered the islanders and instructed them to help the team pile the bodies (and heads) into the kharisiri's boat and set it on fire sailing into the center of Lake Titicaca. Arthur tossed the remains of Luis de Mendoza's head into the boat as it sailed and Everett set the brain on fire in the jar. Nayra attended to the wounded and wished them well on the next step of their journey.

 

The team planned to confront Larkin at the hotel to see what he knows with Don attempting to hypnotize him. The hypnosis seemed to backfire and Larkin's body stiffened and his pupil's grew turning his eyes pitch black. He mumbled something in an odd language and the team felt a presence push on their mind but resisted. He spoke to them very condescendingly (and without an accent), calling them foolish mortals. When Don tried to attack him, he deftly sidestepped, laughed and whispered to him that the room had no windows or doors - and Don began to take on an alternate personality, his mind cracking a little from the strain of being confined. In his laughter, Larkin didnt see the knock-out blow that Jackson dealt him, smashing a chair over his head. Not knowing exactly what had happened, but thinking that Larkin could not be trusted alive - Everett grabbed his knife and removed Larkin's head. 

 

After the excitement calmed down, Arthur looked one last time into the mirror - seeing a different vision all together. He saw hundreds of people of all races wearing black ritual garments marked with an upside-down ankh chanting in the open air.  When he looked up he saw the sun being eclipsed and tentacle like tendrills spreading from it across the sky. Mylo was begining to feel like they should all leave Peru and abandon this exploration - but Jackson and the others convinced him to stay and see it to the end. That just left the question of how to deal with Larkin's beheaded corpse.

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Session 5: The Highlands

The team decided to remove the body of Augustus Larkin to a location up in the mountains and burn it. In order to travel with it inconspicuously Everett and Arthur dismembered it so that it would fit into the crate that had held the length of worked gold while Don and Jackson Elias found a man with a truck not to far from the hotel and rented it from him for a few hours. Mylo cut his hand and spoke with the man behind the desk in the lobby - to give reason why some of the sheets were bloody. Then they loaded the crate into the truck and drove just outside town and burnt the remains. They returned to the hotel and decided to all sleep in shifts in the room that Arthur had procured for himself earlier. Before tucking in, Arthur convinced Mylo to look into The Golden Mirror. He reported having a vision of being on a train in Africa somewhere but couldn't be sure if it was the mirror or just his imagination after such an ordeal. Clarence also tried looking into the mirror again - but saw nothing. 

 

The next morning Don (disguised as Augustus Larkin), Jackson, Everett and Mylo went to pick up and load the pack animals that had been purchased for the trip while Arthur and Clarence paid a trip to the local blacksmith to have him reshape the gold into a single piece that was the same length as it was originally, only thinner. Then the group began their walk into highlands. Along the way they saw a jaguar running through the trees and decided to take things a little cautiously. Everett had been seeing a string of things that he couldn't explain (the jar with Luis de Mendoza's brain appeared and disappeared from his luggage, he thought he saw his rival Robert Ripley leaving their hotel, etc). Once they had made camp for the night, Everett went exploring along the outskirts of camp for oddities that he could add to his collection - and thought he saw one of Ripley's business cards lying in the bushes. He tried to focus his mind to see if it was real or not, but went a little mad and started chasing the card through the trees as a breeze blew it away. Having been gone for a while, the team went looking for him. Mylo noticed that a river wasn't too far off from the camp and might provide a better chance to find footprints if Everett had wandered that way. Arthur and Don went in search of him - finding him just coming out of unconsciousness on the ground with a small head wound. He couldn't remember anything about himself or what they were all doing.

 

They convinced Everett to return to camp and get warm and rest. The next morning, some things had come back to him - but only some of his long-term memories. Nothing about Peru (though he'd been having strange Kharisiri-filled dreams). The next day of hiking ended with another night of two-person watches. Arthur convinced Jackson to try looking into the mirror since he still seemed a little skeptical about the entire situation. He said that he saw - nay experienced - being in a desert of red sand and touching a rock that burned his hand as the ground beneath him gave way. Jackson couldn't explain the vision he'd had which seemed to worry him. During Clarence & Don's watch (around 3AM), they heard some movement near where the donkeys were tied up. They went to investigate, but scared away whatever was there. Don shot a flare and saw a topless man running barefoot away from them a ways off and some tracks leading from the trees to the east to the campsite. Mylo and Jackson woke up when the flare went off and decided to wake up Arthur and fill him in on what had happened.

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Session 6: The Ruins

Don and Clarence finished searching the area but didn't find much else to go on. They told Jackson Elias, Mylo and Arthur what they had found - and the group decided to let Everett rest while they all stayed up, made breakfast and packed up early. Everett woke up from a dream re-living the Kharisiri attack back in Lima and with his memory almost fully intact - everything except his adventures in Peru had returned. 

 

Not too long after setting out, the group heard some gunshots from in front of them, over a hill.  They cautiously went to find a man standing over a young boy who was on the ground and bleeding. Jackson spoke with the man, Julio Cespedes, who said that while he and his son, Domingo were searching for an alpaca that had wandered away from their farmstead, they were attacked by an a thin, gaunt man who bit Domingo in the chest. The wounds were identical to the ones that Trinidad Rizo had sustained back in Lima - and the sight of them brought the rest of Everett's memory back. Don, fearing that the boy may have been infected with a Kharisri larva, hypnotized the boy into vomiting - no larva was expelled.

 

Mylo and Everett decided to stay behind with the boy and his father while Jackson, Don, Arthur and Clarence started to follow 2 figures that they spotted fleeing the scene. The figures had about a mile head start - but they followed them up a mountainous path and eventually they found themselves looking down at some Ruins - which Don recognized as the Pyramid from his vision from The Golden Mirror. While they watched, one of the figures - a shirtless man climbed to the top of the pyramid and began to vomit white fluid into a crack that stretched across it. When he was done, the figure, now a great deal gaunter and seemingly weaker, started to stumble off the Pyramid - but was shot by Don. Its body collapsed and fell off the side of the pyramid out of view.

 

Jackson and Arthur went back to collect Everett and Mylo - asking Julio to watch after the livestock at his farm until they returned. Meanwhile at the pyramid, Clarence and Don noticed the 2nd figure, a young woman, lurking around the far end of the pyramid. When she came into view enough - Don shot her too. When they were rejoined by the rest of the party, Don went looking for the body of the 1st kharisiri he'd shot - and found that it had started to crawl towards a foul smelling pit at the far end of the ruins. He shot the creature again and piled it up with the woman's body - and burned them. Arthur explored the crack at the top of the pyramid - he found that he couldn't see too far into the the structure but could hear a bubbling, gloopy sound from within and smelled a horrible fly drawing stench emitting from it.  The pit that the kharisiri was headed for was filled with human remains in various states of decay. Arthur spotted some gold at the bottom and the beginnings of a tunnel. 

 

Arthur, Don, Jackson and Everett ventured into the pit, finding themselves in a serious of pitch black tunnels below the ruins. Using Everett's flashlight, they began crawling along the tunnels and found a chimney that lead back up to the surface. With a new entryway found, Clarence joined them in the tunnels. They discovered a chamber packed with artifacts, gold, trinkets, etc - and 2 kharisiri sleeping - which were quickly beheaded. Arthur headed off on his own, finding the base of the pyramid and tracing the gold that had been worked into the structure before being called back to the group. Looking through the chamber, Clarence found the ancient tools that were originally used to craft the gold. Arthur told them that he had found the pyramid's base and started to lead them around, until they found a 10 foot wide area of collapsed floor that had filled with a pool of rancid white filth that was slowly dripping out a crack in the pyramid's wall in the 2-foot long space where they could see the gold had been pried away. Clarence tried to light the fluid with the torch that he had fashioned, and almost immediately it caught ablaze, filling the tunnels with thick black smoke - causing half the party to pass-out from the lack of air. Once they had been drug to the open chimney, everyone was able to climb out and wait out the smoke. 

 

It took about an hour for the smoke to filter out of the tunnels - during which time, they discovered several other chimneys. Mylo and Jackson opted to stay up top to keep watch while the others went to try and work the gold back into the wall. Clarence's skills as a mechanic saw him and Aruthur installing half the gold in record time. As they started working on the 2nd half, they heard a gunshot from outside. When Don and Everett climbed up top to see what was happening, Jackson yelled to them from the top of the pyramid, "They all around us - coming over the walls. 100s of them"...

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Session 7: The Horde

While Clarence and Arthur worked on hammering in the last section of the Length of Worked Gold below - a horde of kharisiri were starting to breach the walls of the Ruins. Mylo suggested that group retreat into the tunnels below through one of the chimneys and emerge through the pit of bodies - since it was closer to the main entrance - where there seemed to be less of the creatures. Don and Jackson covered up some of the chimney capstones that they had removed. Don opted to stay up top and blow open the main entrance with some dynamite and try to keep the kharisiri away from chimneys. Jackosn Ellias, Mylo and Everett descended into the tunnels and warned Clarence and Arthur of the situation up top. 

 

Mylo passed by an old mummified body lying on the floor of the tunnels that leaped at him but he hit it with the butt of his gun - dislodging its hand. Everett tried to help and knocked the skull free from the creature - but when he did one of the kharisiri larva flung itself from the eye of the skull - landing on his face and both burned his skin with its acidic secretions and numbed him at the same time. Jackson ripped the thing off his face and threw it on the ground as Mylo blasted it with his gun. Meanwhile up top, Don took out several kharisiri that were digging through the rocks he had piled on top of the chimney with the broken capstone and some that were crawling over the wall near the main entrance.

 

Everett decided it was time to make their way to the pit but ran into a kahrisiri that had found its way through the broken chimney and it pinned him to the ground. Jackson tried to impale the thing but feared striking Everett and swung wide. Everett struggled free and slashed a the thing with his machete as a 2nd kahrisiri crawled into the tunnels down the chimney. As Clarence and Arthur were finishing installing the gold into the wall, a kharisi appeared army crawling towards them from around the corner. Clarence attempted to attack it with his hammer - but the thing pinned him up against the wall of the pyramid so Arthur beheaded it with his sword cane. Everett pulled out his flare gun and shot the creature that was attacking him - which caught ablaze and ended up starting the 2nd one fire as well. Both he and Jackson went at it with their machete's and it also fell to ground dead.

 

As Mylo cleared the paths of debris to make their exit easier and Clarence started making his exit - Arthur thought the gold installation needed some extra magical influence - so he laid his hands on it an began to imbue it with his energy as 3 more kharasiri crawled toward him from around the corner. As he mediated they began to convulse and spasm. Up top, Don saw the horde also spasming and disintegrating into dust that blew away in a brisk wave of wind. The team crawled up out of the tunnels and took stock of the situation - wondering if they had stopped the curse of the kharisiri. 

 

Arthur, Mylo and Everett made their way back to Julio Cespedes' farm - where they found Domingo resting and healing. They were offered shelter and food for the night. Jackson, Don and Clarence spent the night at the ruins - keeping watch for any suspicious activity. But all slept soundly for the 1st time since they arrived in Peru and felt a calm wash over them. The next morning, Don decided to relieve himself into the crack of the pyramid - and noticed it was still covered in flies and emitting a gurgling sound from below - but there were no more signs of the kharisiri. Arthur, Mylo and Everett returned with the pack animals - and the team spent the day looting what they could form the chamber below.

 

After several days journey - they arrived back in Lima. Jackson checked on Professor Sanchez, who was healing well. The team gave him one of the artifacts that they had procured from the ruins and told him the story. He vowed to make sure that no one would find the ruins. Travel plans were made and the team met for drinks one last time a the Bar Cordano - they all felt the bond that had been forged was strong and that they would keep in touch as much as they could. Then made their goodbyes and departed. That night, Don, who had taken The Golden Mirror, decided to peer into it one more time - hoping to see a positive vision now that the ordeal was done. Instead he saw the eyes of his reflection fill with black. His reflection winked and laughed at him - telling him that they would meet again - soon.