That was my 2nd time watching the Big Sleep, and I could almost keep up with the plot. There's more double-crosses in that show than characters.
I remember what led up to those new characters a lot better. Hextor's clerics managed to finish the ritual on the other side of the river, raising up the old bridge. Then all the skeletons came at us, most of those just got turned/destroyed. Then the drowned came at us, but we managed to take it down. Then the lady challeged us to a battle of champions. I had been wanting to do that before, back during the civil war, but we let the spiked chain weaponmaster have at it instead. And of course, she ended up being a vampire and kicked the crap out of him. So then we surrendered the city, but 42 got a resistance started before we left. Then for some reason, it ended up with just me, you, and 42 for about a month, so we set our main characters on the backburner and started the 1st level chars, rewatching the vampire battle and then joining the resistance.