Dex save: 19

Grugga manages to cover his face with his arm before the smoke fills his eyes and lungs, and he is spared the brunt of its caustic foulness. Now knowing that they intend to do harm, Grugga rushes the one that exited the smoke by Leelan and strikes at him with his axe.

Attack: 14
Damage: 9

((damage is magical because of my infusion))

Rohuzar will let his Allie’s deal with the mephit behind and move to the west to try to “smoke” the Mephit with his axe

Attack: 20 Damage: 7 

Dex save: 17

Held Attack: 8 Damage: 4

(sorry for the late reply. Haven’t had the time to check the thread.)

Dex Save: 19

Being able to get out of the way of the blinding blast, Guilim will make sure to keep the thing at distance with the longer range of his weapon. Staying 10ft away he will swing his halberd towards the creature.

Attack: 15 Damage: 9

All four adventurers caught in the Smoke Mephit's breath attack are able to cover their eyes or otherwise avoid the blinding ashes.  Leelan's arrow in response goes wide, but as the Mephit starts to make a wisecrack, Aubrey's blast clips it in a wing and sets it spinning like a top.  Grugga and Guilim both connect with their attacks and it squeals, vanishing in a large puff of smoke... this creates a new, smaller smoke cloud in which both Leelan and Grugga are now standing.

Meanwhile, in the larger smoke cloud, Rohuzar advances toward the sound of the two joking monsters.  He catches a glimpse of one through the thick smoke and lashes out with his axe and feels it find purchase.

Hey! (cough) Whats the big idea?

I dunno, Frank.  These guys don't seem to care for our coughing.

That's funny.  Just the other day I was getting a checkup, and while he was holding my package, the doc insisted I turn and cough.

Jeez, Frank.  (cough)  I keep telling you to find a different dentist.

The two mephits dash away from Rohuzar to the southwest.  Rohuzar, you may take an opportunity attack against the one leaving your reach.  Otherwise, we are out of combat as they flee into the forest.

Rohuzar swings his axe Attack: 17 Damage: 7 

Rohuzar clips the creature again with his axe.  Its now badly hurt and as it disappears into the smoke, it seems to be holding its wispy form together with its arms.  They exit the large smoke cloud to the southwest and vanish into the forest, leaving twin smokey trails behind them.  The last thing you hear before they are gone forever:

(Hack! -ow) I have to be honest with you (cough - ow), Marty: your wife is still smoking hot.

Thanks, Frank.  They say as soon as she cools off, they (cough, cough) are going to present the ashes to us in a lovely urn.

Over the next sixty seconds, both the large and the small smoke cloud dissipate and rise off into the sky.  You notice that once it gets roughly 100 feet from your clearing, the storm winds catch it and pull it apart immediately.  

Once the smoke is gone, the chains on the tree seem to loosen of their own accord, and both the chains and the burnt corpse slump to the ground.  The head rolls off the corpse and comes to a rest near Rohuzar's feet, a thin trail of smoke still drifting from its open mouth.

 "Peculiar." Aubrey says, looking at the dead tree in the clearing. "Perhaps we should move on?" He adds, ready to move out again.
Perception: 14

As Leelan stows his bow away and looks around to account for all his companions, he looks confused.

"I’m not sure what just transpired. I’ve never seen such crass creatures. I’ll have to look into this when I get the chance.", he says, scratching his chin. "In the meantime, we should probably conclude our business here and move along."

"What fate befell this person?" Grugga mutters to no one in particular. He kneels down by the charred corpse and tries to determine anything about  it - race, sex, age, how long it's been dead, the cause of the smoke, if it should still be bound in cold iron, etc.

Investigation: 11
Arcana (if needed): 22
History (if needed): 7

Grugga:

Grugga shakes his head and drapes some of the loose cold iron chain over the bodyless head, so that the chain touches both the body and the head.

"Urgh, I hope that was the worst of what we have to see in this forest..." He drifts off in contemplation, looking at the storm clouds overhead. After a moment of silence, he shivers mightily and turns to face the group in deliberation. "So, the ranger was dropping treats every hundred yards or so, wasn't it? But the old man's 'rule of three' says we need treats for the 'children' at the end of the, um, riddle."

He looks off to the southeast, "Hopefully those weren't the children... but probably not, because we haven't even found the second part of the riddle. The blue lion. What could that be?" Grugga looks around for any signs of a "blue lion"

Perception: 10

Looking around, none of you spot anything that looks like it could be interpreted as a ‘blue lion’.

What you DO notice, as you begin trekking again to the northwest, is the sky.  Over the next hour, despite a storm raging all around you, lightning and thunder flashing and crashing fore, aft and side to side, the only rain to strike you are droplets off the trees overhead.  It seems as though you are walking inside your own private hurricane eye.  Just 100 feet or so in every direction, sheets of rain are falling, but you remain dry.

That isn’t to say the walk is easy.  While this is an upland forest, the ground is soaked with large puddles and once tiny streams overflow their banks and race through the wood with icy cold water.  It seems as though it has been raining intensely here for days.  Some trees have even toppled, the soggy ground unable to hold their roots against the winds of the storm.  It is a muddy hike with lots of detours around fallen trees and standing water.

Just as you are getting hungry and considering where to stop for some foraging or rations, there is a crash up ahead, and a strange call, something like ‘Kee-harr!’  Though you all look up, only Aubrey catches a glimpse through the trees and rain ahead:

 You all hear a few more crashes but then the noise is lost in the roar of the storm.

"What was that? A bird?" Grugga looks tense.

(Would Leelan recognize this call from a specific beast? Would there be a roll for that? Nature? If it is a beast, would I get advantage from my Favored enemy?)

Nature: 8

7 (if advantage)

(please disregard this post if any of my question are answered by the negative)

(Dice roller…plz…)

Leelan, it’s a strange call and difficult to place.  It’s certainly not any beast or bird you’ve ever encountered.  It was loud and deep… whatever it was sounded like it had a big set of lungs.

Guilim watches the sky closely despite them seemingly being safe from the storm around them. He looks to the others, holding his halberd in his hand like it is a walking stick of some sort.

"No, I actullay think I just spotted our blue lion." Aubrey says, like he has a hard time believing what he just saw. "Hurry, we should follow it." He says, motioning to the west, where he saw the lion disappear. "It's tracks shouldn't be hard to follow."

Perception: 11

Grugga hurries alongside Aubrey. "Should I get Zip out? I'm worried about the winds if it strays too far or too high."

"We could really use Zip's help, but keep him inside the calm of the storm." Aubrey suggests.