~ Tyranny of Dragons ~

Fatigued from the day’s two previous fights, Hildr tries not the show it. However, she isn’t able to muster her characteristic rageful focus for this crucial and uncertain challenge, putting Hildr in a precarious situation. Her life may depend on strategy and coordination.

She eyes the pit warily as Hildr circles to her right, keeping her distance from its lip. [Movement: 5 ft S, 5 ft diagonally SE, 10 more ft E, 10 ft diagonally NE, allowing Hildr to stay 5 ft from the edge and putting her immediately S of Galdren on the stairs.]

“Gawain, the other side!” Hildr swings as vigorously as her flagging energy allows her. [Action—Attack with Viking Sword: 18, 9 slashing damage]

"Got it!" Gawain calls, circling around the other side of the pit as quickly as he can. He sets his glaive into a spin, getting closer than necessary for its reach to make himself more of an immediate threat to Galdren. He slashes upward with the polearm at the masked bandit, then twirls it around in his hand and swipes downward to bring the blunt end on his pet stirge. 

Movement
10 ft NE. -> 15 ft E. -> 5 ft SE.

Action
Glaive Attack To Hit against Galdren: 17
Damage: 11

Bonus Action
Polearm Master Attack to Hit Against Stirge: 18
Damage: 5

Finding himself under attack from two sides as once, Galdren is unable to keep up as the pair rain blows down upon him. The blades find their mark, but you notice that these wounds which would have finished any of the other bandits you encountered barely seem to slow him down. Likewise as Gawain's glaive hammers down on the large stirge, it doesn't crumple as easily as the others.

Flapping its wings, the creature takes flight, circling back around Gawain to attack him from the other side.

Blood Drain Attack - Gawain
Attack Roll: 9
Damage: 7

Order -> Gallant -> Crannoc

Gallant will pull out the crossbow and take his shot towards the stinger 

Attack: 24

Damage: 5 

he will then hide behind crates for protection.

Crannoc, depleted of Silvanus' divine magic beyond cantrips, knows what he has to do.  He knows that with a combination of his Thorn Whip and his Telekinetic Shove to pull Galdren 15' into the gaping hole at the center of the room.  Unfortunately, it does not work out for him.

Movement:  First E-->SE, then bonus action and action below, then back NW-->NW back towards the wall.

Bonus Action:  Telekinetic Shove from 30' west of Galdren, DC15 STR Save or target is moved 5' west (towards Crannoc).

Action:  Thorn Whip (melee spell attack with 30' range):
To hit:  11 (sigh, rolled a 4 on the d20... really would have been great to pull Galdren into the hole).
Damage on hit:  6 magical piercing
Forced movement on hit:  large or smaller targets pulled 10' towards Crannoc (west), no saving throw.

Shaking his head in frustration, Crannoc calls out a warning to the others:
"Beware the hole in the center.  I sense some further foe or danger lurks there.  Nothing good for us."

A bolt flies across the gap, sticking into Galdren's leg. Grunting, he yanks the bloody bolt out and tosses it to the ground before being pulled towards the pit in the center. His eyes shoot across the gap in time to catch sight of Crannoc's whip of vines, dodging out of the attack's way.

He hears the half-elf's warning, and turns his head to face him. Crannoc could swear he sees a strange flash in his eyes through the mask just before he holds his sword point up to the ceiling. The onyx fuller of his blade glows with a sickly radiance as an inky darkness pours from it like smoke, spreading out across the room in a 15 foot radius.

"I still see you." His sing-song voice rings out from the darkness, before Gawain and Hildr hear his footsteps retreat away from him.

Galdren Action
Darkness

• As you move to attack Galdren, you can sense him nimbly moving to dodge them, as if he can still see the attacks. Attack rolls against Galdren will have disadvantage.
• You are still aware of his location, unless he takes Hide successfully at any point.

Galdren Reaction
Parry: +2 AC against the first melee attack against him.

Order -> Iris -> Hildr -> Gawain

Hildr vainly attempts to strike at the "swordcerer" as Galdren vanishes into impenetrable darkness. [See Game Log—fail to hit for sure]

"Damnit," Gawain curses as the darkness spreads, thrusting his glaive at where he thinks the bandit is fleeing to.

Reaction
Glaive Attack to Hit against Galdren: 15
Damage: 5

As the bandit retreats into the darkness, both Gawain and Hildr attempt to catch him with their blades. The viking sword catches nothing but air, but Gawain meets some resistance as he just barely nicks Galdren as he runs away.

"Oh no." Iris breathes, fearing now that they might have overextended themselves. She listens carefully for his footsteps as he runs through the darkness, and fires off an icy ray where she thinks he may be. Afterwards she circles around north, moving to the other side of Crannoc.

Ray of Frost 15 to hit. 4 cold damage.

Hildr pursues Galdren's footfall, taking care, however, to skirt the edge of darkness; she does not enter it. [Movement: 30 ft, ending up in the square diagonally to the SW of Galdren.]

"Cowards hide in shadows," Hildr says as she swings blindly. [Action: Attack with Viking Sword at disadvantage: 9]

Gawain elects to ignore the stirge for now. He turns away from it and circles carefully around where he recalled the pit to be. Certain that he heard the man's footsteps end nearby, he swings the glaive into motion, first striking with the blade then following up with the blunt end.

Movement
10 ft S. -> 5 ft SW. -> 10 ft W.

Action
Glaive Attack To Hit against Galdren: 6
Damage: 6

Bonus Action
Polearm Master Attack to Hit Against Galdren: 8
Damage: 4

As Gawain moves away from it, the large stirge strikes at him, and then follows after him, trying to attach itself.

Reaction Blood Drain Attack - Gawain
Attack Roll: 8
Damage: 4

Action Blood Drain Attack - Gawain
Attack Roll: 17
Damage: 7

Order -> Gallant -> Crannoc

Gallant being concealed by the creates on the top left side, and will ready his action with the crossbow to shoot   The masked man if he emerges from his the darkness. 

Crannoc is no stranger to the comforts of darkness.  Many of his best friends are nocturnal.  But darkness which darkvision cannot penetrate is a different tale altogether.  Unnatural and unnerving.  He has no desire to venture inside, calling out to his companions, "why fight the masked man in his natural habitat?  Come out of the darkness and force him and the stirge to come out after us, perhaps?"

Crannoc paces warily around the darkness and pulls the giant Stirge off Gawain.

Movement:  S-->S-->SE-->SE-->E-->E

Action:  Detach the giant Stirge from Gawain.

Bonus Action:  none

He paces south around the darkness looking for an angle to pull Galdren out with his thorny vines and push the Stirge off Gawain with a Telekinetic Shove.

Bonus Action:  Telekinetic Shove, Stirge must make a DC15 STR Save or be shoved 5' SE from Gawain, (directly away from Crannoc) out of the darkness.

Movement:  (in 5' steps):  First bonus action above, then SW-->(Action, Thorn Whip)-->S-->SE-->SE-->SE-->SE

Action:  From 20' due east of Galdren, Crannoc lashes out into the darkness with his Thorn Whip, melee spell attack with 30' range.  And finds purchase!
Thorn Whip to hit at disadvantage:  25 (rolled 18 and 20 on the dice, disadvantage canceling a crit).
Thorn Whip damage:  3 magical piercing
Thorn Whip Forced Movement:  Galdren is dragged 10' east out of his darkness, triggering Gallant's readied attack.

Crannoc moves around and pulls the giant bat-like creature off of Gawain's back, which begins flapping its wings frantically to get out of his grasp after being pulled away.

"My turn." The voice says from the darkness. His blade bursts from the spellbound area, thrusting at Hildr before pulling back. The air shifts, and Gawain can feel the blade arcing down at him next.

The masked figure tauntingly twirls out of the darkness next to Crannoc now, dagger in his offhand to strike at the cleric before stepping back into the opaque shadow.

Action Multi-attack

Short Sword Attack - Hildr
Attack Roll - 25
Damage - 6

Short Sword Attack - Gawain
Attack Roll - 24
Damage - 6

Dagger Attack - Crannoc
Attack Roll - 21
Damage - 4

Order -> Iris -> Hildr -> Gawain

Extra Crit Damage - Hildr
6

The frustration of not being useful in a situation like this causes something to snap within Iris. "To hells with it!" She growls with an uncharacteristic anger in her voice. Taking off at a sprint, she charges into the darkness and dives forward to tackle Galdren's legs. "Just grab him!" She yells out.

Action: Help for Hildr or Gawain to grapple or shove Galdren.