Quinn’s initiative: 6

Boona Initiative- 12

Jurgen Init: 23

Initiative:

Jurgen 23
Boona 18
Bugbears 18
Drow 10
Quinn 6
Bryony 17
Ruven 18

A tense standoff ensues. A laughing drow greets Quinn and Boona as the two bugbear guards nearby grip their weapons. "...And who are you with?" he repeats.

Boona may act if she chooses. So may Jurgen, who is just out of sight, around the corner, listening in carefully.

Bryony shakes her head to Quinn's question. She follows close behind him as he enters the room and attempts to intimidate the drow and bugbears. It doesn't appear to be working all that well.

"Are you this Spider everyone's been talking about?" Bryony asks suddenly. "You don't look much like a spider to me."

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A tense standoff ensues. A laughing drow greets Quinn and Boona as the two bugbear guards nearby grip their weapons. "...And who are you with?" he repeats.

Boona looks confused for a minute then points to Quinn, " Him."

She then turns towards the bugbears, " Drow pay good?"

Ruven, seeing how the intimidation tactic seems to be moving, mutters under his breath to Quinn and Bryony Stall them as long as you can. He looses his lizard, which climbs up the wall and onto the ceiling, then into the room, maneuvering into place directly above the drow.

stealth 4

"The Spider?" laughs the drow. "Me? No. Would you like to meet him?"

He turns to the guards.

In Goblin:

One of the bugbears nods and begins pushing past Quinn, Boona, and Bryony to go upstairs. 

The bugbears ignore Boona's question as one begins to push past her. The other bugbear stands watchful and ready.

The drow looks up and squints at Ruven's lizard. "Your pet?"

Two more bugbears climb out of the rift and look at the party warily.

Boon put an arm out to stop the bugbear pushing past her.

" Say Excuse Me."

 Athletics- 13

Frowning silently, the bugbear tries to push Boona's arm aside. Contesting Athletics check: 4

Unable to budge Boona's massive arm, the bugbear looks back at the drow.

"Well?" asks the drow. "Do you want to meet the Spider or not?"

Boona had no idea that the Drow was addressing her and just looked expectantly at the bugbear.

The bugbear glares back at Boona. "I get Spider," it snarls. "Move away."

Boona put her arm down with a look of disappointment, " No manners." 

" Badly raised bugbear."

She waited for it to pass and then began walking towards the Drow, " Whats in hole?"

The bugbear guard continues up the stairs and westward down the dark hall, pausing briefly only to glare at Jurgen and Ruven for a moment before proceeding on.

The other bugbear guard steps in to intercede between Boona and the drow, looking up nervously at Ruven's lizard. The two new bugbears, filthy with dust and mud, stand at the edge of the rift, watching the drow for cues.

"Rocks," replies the drow. Boona can see that he's not incorrect. The rift is about twenty feet deep and thick with rubble at the bottom.

"Who are you working for?" asks the drow.

Boona pointed back at Bryony, " Her."

And then Quinn, " And Him."

She moved over ( 3 squares N)  to look down at the rocks.

Quinn looks at the remaining bugbears without sight and he gets a bad feeling about this. He steps south to free up a pathway for party to enter the room and he kneels. He reaches for his healers pouch and addresses the drow.

”You say Rumkk over there is getting The Spider. But who’s Nezznar?”

Quinn looks up and locks eyes with the drow and attempts to bandage up one of his own wound in anticipation of what he sees as an inevitable clash. 

OOC: 

Oh benevolent DM, , can Quinn use his battle medic feat to heal himself?