Misprize Thou Not These Shadows That Belong: Lost Mines of Phandelver

Krull stands up and with a move attempts to take off the swarm of him(shove bonus action 18 athletics)."I hate bugs!" and takes a swing with K.O(20 to hit for 10 points of damage) then  moves back towards his companions 

Krull shoves the creatures off him, attacks killing 5 of them! But, to his horror, he can't get far enough away! They come right back after him, crawling on him once again! Bite 17 damage 5

Margret    

Rabbit Initiative-

Krull amongst the crawlers.

Carrion crawler infant swarm 

Calithor <------

Despite the humour of the situation, Calithor is alarmed by the damage that the stalwart goliath is taking from the tiny swarm of teeth. Nibbled to death by cockroaches.

Grasping his staff firmly in one hand, Calithro reaches out with the other toward Krull as a warm light flows over his body.

(( Heal Krull: 14 pts; 2 staff charges used ))

(Post traumatic stress? :p thanks for the healing!)

(Assuming the little beasties are still going)

"Hang in there Krull, we got this!"

Margret will again throw fire at the bugs to try to fry a few more: 

Firebolt: attack: 8, damage; 8 (rolled in log)

Margret    

Rabbit <------

Krull amongst the crawlers.

Carrion crawler infant swarm 

Calithor

"This is certainly taking a while. You alright in there Krull?" 

Rabbit once again casts Chill Touch so that the ghostly hand again tries to remove the swarm covering him. 
(Spell Attack: 23, Damage: 3)

"They are more persistent than rain itself " replies Krull back as he is struggling  to get rid of them

And then there was one. Which Krull easily squishes.

Combat over.

Margret runs over and gives  Krull an awkward hug. "We did it!" she says with joy and relief on her face.

Calithor smiles with relief as the last buglet squeaks it's last squeak. He moves daintily over to Krulls, doing his best to avoid the mass of slimy bugs. "Definitely not our finest hour, but certainly memorable," he says.

He frowns at the wounded Goliath and reaches out again, a pale radiance playing over his right hand. Wherever he touches,  the tiny bite marks seem to close over. He eventually stops, with Krull nearly healed.

Cure Wounds: 7

(( Total 3 staff charges used ))

Krull taken by surprise hugs Marget and replies "are you asking me on a date ?I mean we still have a few jobs to do" and starts chuckling

"Cal I ll wait for your song and when you do if I may i ll sing it with you ..Right lad?"

Margret turns a bit red and backs off. "uh, no my friend. you have burned bug goo all over you.....and you smell like caterpillar spit..." She smiles bashfully. "Not very attractive to a young lady....but, drinks on me for completing our mission." 

"Hope you're buyin' drinks for all of us," Rabbit says in response to Margret's offer, sounding possibly annoyed.  She then glances around to see if any of the wererat folk are around,  but speaks to the group as a whole. "Shall we find the dwarves now? We accomplished our part of the deal.  If not more.  I don't recall mention of two giant creatures plus swarms of little ones."

The wererat closest to you shrugs "We didn't know." She drops a bag infront of the party "Treasure as promised, honestly, we never had control of the dwarves." she laughs "They've barricaded themselves in and won't come out. You'll have to persuade. It's up to you. "

Margret winks at Rabbit. "Of course I mean for all of us!"
"Now" she says, looking at the wererat. "you hired us to kill one caterpillar and your lack of knowledge of what was in there is not our problem." Looking at the carcasses and making a show of counting to 4.  "We could have killed one, and left the rest for your clan. I count 2 large caterpillars, and two infant swarms.  Now, being a reasonable person, I propose you pay us double our agreed on amount and we'll throw in the two baby swarms for free."

"You should honor your word wererat!Even among thieves should be some code." says Krull in an attempt to diffuse the situation."Let's get our payment from them,then from that f..ck Raskin..especially from him cause he tricked us and then leave this place"

Rabbit picks up the bag, checking out the contents. "This is the goggles you promised? And you will tell us this location of the shrine with the treasure now?"  She then turns to the rest of the group. "Raskin said he'd give us 500 gold for this, so we can collect that. It matters not if he tricked us, perhaps he was just clueless about his mine. I don't know. The other 100 gold for getting him here we're supposed to collect from Sildar. Anyway, let's see to these dwarves."  She looks back at wererat. "Can you show us where they're holed up?" 

(You guys, will get the quest gold from Sildar.)

The hybrid Ratwoman says "Yes and there are gems we found here in the bag also, I'll mark the location of the shrine on your map."

and she does so then she says leading you to the door where the dwarves are. "They're stubborn, I guess scared. Maybe you can convince them to come out." 

You find ten rubies in the bag you think may be worth 50gp each

"Finally, we have someone who is fair and reasonable", the calmed down Margret says, the heat in her face dissipating.   

"Lets go deal with these dwarves."