Alright skull gets stopped by midnight dies by poison because lack of antidote which skull took at the start when he and his lackies took on the way there. They were driving and away from the others, the hand doesn't know and will punish skull but he sincerely doesn't care about lives otherwise he wouldn't work directly with him. I'm not changing my verdict here because evil essentially walked up to the dragon and kicked it in the face and these are tiny parasites killing them inside fries his lungs and his body. If you want to leave because of that fine but its not changing the fact that while skull is in the wrong verd is more so he dug his own grave despite skulls straight forward use this or you're dead approach. 

I'm not changing this.