Petcan laughs at Bow’s story. “That sounds kind of familiar actually. Found by an ordinary woman and raised to be normal despite... not being normal. Magic comes to me like breathing. I don’t study, I don’t do much of anything. I just make it happen. My body is full of it. It’s done some things to me too, look.” He pulls his sleeve up and drags his dagger across it with a moderate force, causing not a single cut, revealing skin like black marble stone. 

Ekō gets a cup of coffee and sits next to them. “Alright well, I’m ekō A. I wanted to travel the world and tell stories to my parents, where I live we have a tradition where we get a unique power/powers for every generation and they will be like our parents, they can be used in many ways and there’s many different ones, I can’t use mine as well as I want to due to an injury. “

"I'm an orphan and I can kill goblins by talking at them. Like, did you see that, I just talked at it and it dropped dead. I expected it to get angry or something, but nope. Just dropped dead. And I love music. Music is my blood, seriously if you cut me open you would see sheet music flow out."

(who needs more time to level up? who wants more time to play a hand of cards?... will be posting again soon.)

(Im fine with moving forward)

(OOC I'm good to go}

Let’s do this!

By which I mean keep going.

Alright then. You drink and play cards and afterward are able to get a proper long rest (8 hours) and awake, refreshed in the morning. Captain Kloroe finds you at breakfast and thanks you all again for the role you played in the defense of Clanderburg (name of town).

"Most of the men think it was just another goblin raid but my experience fighting goblins tells me they were testing our forces to see how fast and strong we reply. This brings me to the crux of the matter. It would be very beneficial to know if they are in the Northwood or camped somewhere beyond it. I can't spare any of my men to investigate the matter but if you lot want to earn a small reward I can spare some coin from the treasury."

 “I’m interested. These goblin troubles sound serious.”

"I'll go as well. Perhaps there might be a better way to end this if we had more information." Grim says

It takes the rest of the morning to get ready and travel to the Northwood. The sun is at it's zenith and the odd ray can be seen penetrating the canopy overhead giving an eerie surreal feeling to your surroundings (dim light). Shortly after entering the woods you are surprised (?) by a group of 4 bugbears.

Bugbear 1 stealth: 22 
Bugbear 2 stealth: 19 
Bugbear 3 stealth: 22 
Bugbear 4 stealth: 21 

2 bugbears on the left init.: 15 
2 bugbears on the right init.: 22 

(Roll for initiative.)

Grim Initiative: 4

Syvis initiative: 22 

Randall:

Initiative:  11

Perception to see the sneaky ones:  8

(Using light on his mace if the light becomes too dim for him to see well)

Initiative: 22

On the way to the Northwood, as Bow expects a fight he has imbued his hand crossbow with rite of the storm, taking 1 damage in the process. He looks around continuously to see if there are any goblins, or others lurking around.

Perception: 21

Initiative 14

Petcan initiative 11 

Initiative Order:
(for this turn you are all surprised)

Bow
Syvis
Ceo
2 bugbears on the right
2 bugbears on the left
Randall
Petcan
Grim

(the bugbears have a surprise round... Bow, Syvis, and Ceo can use reactions this round.)

2 bugbears on the right attack Bow and Syvis respectively:

@Bow: Attack: 10 Damage: 10 
@Syvis: Attack: 23 Damage: 8 

2 bugbears on the left attack Ceo and Randall respectively:

@Ceo: Attack: 22 Damage: 13 
@Randall: Attack: 23 Damage: 13 

(Bow is up.)

All for bugbears throw spears from 30 feet away and then close to melee with their targets.

(edit: sorry Randall, almost forgot the Surprise Attack feature of bugbears... you also take 9 piercing)

This is the start of round 2.