Tengen hurries up the stairs, easily able to ascend. Hearing the sounds of her compatriots above, she continues past the second floor landing, making it to the top of the stairs mere moments after the remainder of the team does.

As you round the stairs onto the top floor, you find yourselves on a dusty balcony with a suit of black plate armor standing against one wall, draped in cobwebs. Unlike the rest of the house, this seems like it's been abandoned. Dust clings to everything, and oil lamps are mounted on the oak-paneled walls, which are carved with woodland scenes of trees, falling leaves, and tiny critters.

There are numerous doors you can see from the position at the top of the stairs. Which one do you head towards first?

Ongoing Map:

Arkanon looks around and because of all the noise that they were making, whatever monster was here would have already attacked them on the stairs, and because none made itself present, he casts thaumaturgy to slam all the doors in the floor open, then slips past Rosa and looks through the door on the southern side.

At the slamming of the doors, Muirdan whips himself around scanning the room in not-quite panic, hammer at the ready.

Rosa heads to the other side of the floor, checking the opposite side from Arkanon, trying to find this boy quickly.

Arkanon, the doors fly open, slamming wide. However, as soon as you go to move past the armor, you hear a screeching sound of metal on metal as the suit of armor comes to life, bringing its arms up into a fighting stance. At the same moment, a ghastly shriek reverberates across the balcony as a skeletally thin young woman, terrified, moves out from the door you are heading towards, a faint black cloud swirling around her.

(Time for some combat! To streamline things, I will roll initiatives for all combatants and post a turn order based on that. Anyone listed in Bold font in the turn order is free to act at that time.)

COMBAT! Bold below can act now:
Rosa
Grythek
Tengen
Milamber
Armor
Muirdan
Woman
Arkanon

Initiatives:

As all of this happens, the only enemy Rosa sees is this suit of armor. So he'll head straight for it, swinging his greatsword at its head.

Attack: 21 Damage: 9

Tengen sees the armour start to come to life and reacts as quickly as possible, touching the orb at her throat she reaches out towards the construct and unleashes a blast of radiant energy at it. She then notices the woman coming out of the other door and stunned by what she is seeing backs away a little. A small gasp of fright escapes her and she flushes a little at showing her fears

Casts Sacred Flame for 3 radiant damage (Dex Save DC13 for no damage)

Milamber hears the screaming woman and, believing her to be of utmost importance and thinking his more martially skilled companions better able to handle the living armor, he raises his hand as a glowing red energy forms around it. He uses the residual energy to create a gust of wind (bonus action) to fly upward 10 feet in the attempt to get to the floor she is currently on (Tempestuous Magic: does not allow for opportunity attacks) and he casts a bolt of fire at the cloud. Attack: 8 Damage: 2 but trying to not hit the girl.

“What are we doi... “ was asking the ranger when the suit of armor started to move. He attacks it with his swords.

Attack: 15 Damage: 4

bonus action: Attack: 21 Damage: 3

It may be the tension of the place, or perhaps just finely tuned responses. Either way, Rosa leaps into combat, his greatsword cutting a tight arc, slashing across the armor's midsection, causing it to rattle in place. As Tengen's flames leap up around the creature, it tries to dodge out of the way (19), failing and causing small scorch marks to appear along the armor's surface.

Milamber soars into the sky, flinging a bolt of flame toward the clouded woman. Unfortunately, the mystical means of levitation seem to have messed up his targeting abilities, and the bolt sails over her shoulder, not disrupting the could at all.

Grythek leaps into action, blades glinting. The armor's dancing moves to try avoiding the flame take it just barely out of reach of your first swing, though the second one finds a little purchase, lopping off the thumb of one gauntleted hand.

Seemingly enraged by Rosa's success, it swings its gauntlets twice, trying to connect with the barbarian.

(Attack 1: 7 for 7 bludgeoning damage. Attack 2: 21 for 4 bludgeoning damage.)

COMBAT! Bold below can act now:
Rosa
Grythek
Tengen
Milamber
Armor
Muirdan
Woman
Arkanon

Muirdan shrinks from the woman, not knowing what to make of her, and throws himself with enthusiasm at the suit of armor, swinging his hammer down at its head, or as high as he can reach.

Warhammer: 9 Damage: 9

A hollow thud rings out through the small space as Muirdan's hammer careens off the armor.

The clouded woman moves forward, her eyes fixated on Arkanon. Those taking notice of her at all see that her feet don't touch the floor, nor do her legs move. Her eyes flare white, as does the inside of her mouth as her hand reaches up and grasps for Arkanon. (Attack 1: 16 for 16 necrotic damage.)

COMBAT! Bold below can act now:
Rosa
Grythek
Tengen
Milamber
Armor
Muirdan
Woman
Arkanon

Noticing the fact that she is now floating, Milamber casts a Ray of Frost at the girl in hopes the cold would shock her. He assumes there may be some sort of possession and hopes to shock the potential invading entity from her. Attack: 8 Damage: 3

OOC: would be nice to get a good roll. SMH

Arkanon raises his shield up, knocking her arm out of the way and follows it with a brutal swing of his sword toward her midsection, distinctly aware that this strange woman's legs aren't touching the floor.

attack: 21    Damage: 8

Rosa, feeling pain, and angry that the suit hitting him, feels the anger cloud his mind as he swings again at the armor. (Raging)

Attack 24 Damage 12

4

(So 16 damage, and the woman does have legs Arkanon)

(For criticals, you roll the damage dice again, so add an extra 2d6)

The ranger will position himself better and attack with his swords again:

Attack: 15 Damage: 10

Bonus action

Attack: 17 Damage: 5

Tengen suddenly realises that it isn't a woman being attacked by a cloud, it is in fact some type of undead creature that is attacking them and turns to face her, this time her fingers move across to the symbol of Lathander next to the orb as she remembers the training she received in the temple with vivid clarity.  Calling forth a bolt of golden light she launches it at the supernatural woman. She then continues to try and back away from the melee.

Casts Guiding Bolt 

Attack 12 damage if hits 20 of radiant damage (and next attack has advantage)

Arkanon cleanly connects with his sword, but the strike seems almost to pass along her, as if it was only grazing her somehow. It doesn't feel nearly as effective as his time striking training partners.

With a dark look on his face, Rosa slices through the chest piece of the armor, causing a massive rift through the metal. The suit begins to lose bits and pieces of metal, looking to be barely held together! Unfortunately, this gash left Grythek with no good place to stick his swords, causing both attempted strikes to bite into nothing but air.

Meanwhile, Milamber and Tengen focus their efforts on the ghastly woman along with Arkanon. Milamber seems a bit discombobulated still as the chilled blue-white beam splashes harmlessly against the wall behind the woman. Tengen, however, seems to have found the ticket as a glowing streak of light slams into the figure, causing a massive shriek of pain to erupt from her glowing mouth. Her body pulses with a faint glow! (Advantage on the next attack on her).

The armor makes a last ditch effort to hit its enemies. Its first swing aims for Rosa, while the second tries to catch Muirdan unawares. (Attack 1 on Rosa: 24 for 11 bludgeoning damage. Attack 2 on Muirdan: 11 for 3 bludgeoning damage.)

COMBAT! Bold below can act now:
Rosa
Grythek
Tengen
Milamber
Armor
Muirdan
Woman
Arkanon

Muirdan casts a fearful glance over his shoulder at the woman, barely bringing his attention back to the armor in time to dodge the strike.  Mustering a laugh, he takes another swing with his warhammer at the armor.

Warhammer: 9 Damage: 6