Melandra enters the cavern and sees the towering Bugbear fighting Vishka. She casts Cause Fear on the beast.

Locking eyes on the Bugbear she advances slowly with a wicked grin on her face.

The bugbear whimpers slightly as it looks for a chance to escape Melandra. With a sudden roar it pushes past Vishka and makes for the crevice on the other side of the cavern. 

Vishka takes a swing for the bugbear Attack: 13 Damage: 6

Goblin arrows fly out of the darkness toward Griel and Kara Attack: 12 Damage: 4 and Attack: 17 Damage: 3 Griell takes and arrow to the gut.

Blink throws her daggers at the Bugbear Attack: 19 Damage: 5 and Attack: 23 Damage: 4 before running over to the nearby barrels and taking cover.

Stealth 26

Seeing Griell take the goblin arrow, Kara snarls with rage and charges toward the hiding goblins. She leaps the barrels and brings her sword down on the first one she sees Attack: 20 Damage: 10 she cuts it down and turns to face the last goblin.

As the Bugbear runs past Griell limps forward and brings her glaive down on its back Attack: 12 Damage: 11 however, the reach pulls at her wound and she falls back in agony.

Vishka races after the Bugbear but the damned beast is fast! She draws down sacred flame upon it.

Radiant energy sweeps down on the Bugbear causing 4 damage.

Melandra raises and arm and casts fire bolt at the Bugbear 

Attack: 15 Damage: 7

The blast misses its mark and the bugbear continues to limp forward, throwing itself over the edge of the crevice and starting to climb down.

The goblin facing Kara disengages in terror and follows its master.

Blink fires an arrow at the back of the retreating goblin. Attack: 22 Damage: 5

Griell throws her hand axe at the goblin as she leans heavily on her glaive Attack: 20 Damage: 9 it drops to the stone dead.

"Don't let the bastard get away!" Kara cries as she runs to the edge drawing her crossbow. She fires down at the bugbear as it climbs Attack: 13 Damage: 8 a miss

Vishka runs to the edge and throws her dagger after it Attack: 20 Damage: 7 it strikes home sending the bugbear clattering to the rocks bellow.

"Damn it I liked that dagger." 

"I'll get it." 

Melandra casts mage hand and collects the daggers and axe from the bugbears body.

"Look at all this stuff."

Blink sifts through the various barrels and crates around the cavern. 

"This lot belongs to the Lionshield Coster. Take what we can use and we can report the rest when we arrive in Phandalin."

"Here take these."

Blink offers two potions of healing to Griell. She pockets the coin and jade frog that she found in the same box.

"Thanks." 

Griel drinks one of the potions and puts the other in her pack. She take a large sigh of relief as the potion does its work.

"Ah that's better. No sign of the dwarf or Sildar."

"We must search the rest of this place. I can not leave Gundren to the goblins. His mother would never forgive me."

"I suspect we need to backtrack and cross the bridge over the stream."

The party do just that and as they reach the far end of the bridge Kara releases her bat friend once more to scout ahead. The tunnel ends in a large cave that is divided in half by a ten-foot-high escarpment. A steep natural staircase leads from the lower portion to the upper ledge. The air is hazy with the smoke of a cooking fire, and pungent from the smell of poorly cured hides and unwashed goblins. There are six of them in total. One lies injured on a roll mat, four scurry around tending the camp fire and preparing meat. The last sits atop the ledge next to a bound human figure that can only be Sildar. There is no sign of the dwarf.

Meladra conveys what she has seen to the party.

"I'll be right back"

Greill runs back and returns several minutes later carrying a severed wolf head.

"Goblins are cowards, let's scare them off."

Griell strides forward carrying the head and as she reached the cavern entrance she throws it into the fire in the centre of the room. The goblins scream and scatter as the head splutters and catches fire.

"Your boss is dead, this is his pet. We killed them both and we will kill you too if you do not surrender your prisoners...Now!"

Intimidation 7

"Ha you did us a favour! and now you are tired and wounded." 

The goblin guarding Sildar snorts a laugh, "Drop your weapons and Yeemik will tell the boys to kill you quick."