The rapier catches Darnic in the shoulder, distracting him just long enough to be caught off guard by the shifter. However, as the shifter lunges toward him, time slows for Darnic. He clenches his fist on his bandaged arm as red energy crackles. It’s instinctual, but enough. The capillaries in the shifter’s eyes burst with blood! It has disadvantage on the attack and, by sacrificing 2 health, the next as well! Darnic looks very suspiciously at his arm.

Archy throws the Assassin's spent crossbow at the warforged, hitting (Bonus Action)
8 (adv. 15 Faerie Fire) for 3 blunt, so he has a hand free to load. He fires his own weapon, hitting (Action)
20 (adv. 23) for 9 piercing, and with a Surge of Action he fires again, hitting (Action Surge)
27 (adv. 9) for 6 (crit: 2) piercing.

(Priority: Forged, Shifter B, Shifter A)

(Auto crit roller doesnt handle split advantage.)

Yrwin winces and yelps in pain as the blade pierces his skin. A deft hand pulls out a dried chilli from his component pouch, which he breaks in half and rolls between his hands. He stretches his hands forward and casts Burning Hands for 15 dmg (save: 13 dex). He tries to avoid hitting any of his friends while hitting as many of their enemies as possible. 

Willie steps back and tries to put the werekin to sleep, evening the odds.

(Rolled 30 in discord)

Shifter A howls as he brings his claws to his face as a result of Darnic's sudden found power.

Archy throws the crossbow in the warforged's face distracting him, which, in conjunction with Willie's Faerie Fire, makes the warforged an easy kill as Archy lays two bolts into it. 

Again, Archy and Darnic witness something fly out of the warforged's body and swoop away faster than they can track.

Yrwin burns the shifter that stabbed him to a crisp, while the other managed to duck down in time just to be heavily burned. 

Shifter A turns to Yrwin, still holding his eye, yowling, "Why you pudgy little-!" He raises a claw and goes to strike-!

BUT - he collapses suddenly into the water and is slowly being carried away with the lazy current.

Shifter B is unconscious/asleep thanks to Willie. What will you do with them?

(I can't unbold, so. yeah)

Archy recovers the Assassin's Crossbow, less concerned with the fate of the sleeping Shifter than the others are likely to be.

Darnic, still sparing a glance at his arm now that then, starts patting down the shifter. Does he have anything on him?

Yrwin pulls out a cloth from his back pocket and dips it in the water, scrubbing his hands. "Oh, chili. Won't pick my nose or eyes with this stuff on my hands still.." 

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Yrwin pulls out a cloth from his back pocket and dips it in the water, scrubbing his hands. "Oh, chili. Won't pick my nose or eyes with this stuff on my hands still.." 

 Darnic looks to Yrwin, “Isn’t that sewage?”

The shifters both have a dagger on their person (which they didn't brandish), leather armor, and 10 g between them.

The warforged has a rapier, light crossbow, thieves' tools, a regular traveling cloak, and a backpack.

Yrwin shakes his hands and scrubs even more furiously. "GODS! Ohnoohnoohnoohno... Ewewewewew" After a few seconds of gagging and scrubbing it seems that Yrwin realizes something else. With a brownish red tint on his blushing cheeks and snaps his fingers over one hand casting Prestidigitation on it trying to clean it, he repeats the process over his other hand. 

Archy adds the gold to the party funds (126.7) and takes the Daggers, Rapier, and Tools as well.

(Unless anyone wants them.)

Darnic will consider it, “I’ll take that rapier, if you don’t mind. Doesn’t hurt to have something to pierce with when slashing fails.”

Willie shivers. "Well, people know about us and are out to get us."

She gathers some biscuits and warms them with Prestidigitation, handing them out to the party. "We must take stock of our forces, and eat."

She gives double helpings to Ywrin as she fusses over him in a matronly manner. After five minutes of short rest, she suggests the party move onward.

Archy tosses the Rapier to Darnic. "Next time we should try and catch that core." 

“Agreed. We don’t know what those could be. We need to hold them down next time we deactivate them. Besides, these orbs could lead us to more information about why people have been murdered. Who knows what they could be.”

(Assuming we all move onward!)

There seems to only be one path in these sewers - forward! Well, really, there is a sewage grate behind you and when you come up to the intersection ahead there is yet another grate on your left. On your right, you find something curious - a door. It looks out of place down in this dank tunnel. 

A circular metal hatch, set into the tunnel wall and engraved with arcane runes, must be the sealed door that Elaydren told you about. In the middle of the hatch, a glowing circle of mithral depicts the same icon as on Bonal’s journal—the ancient symbol of House Cannith that predates the founding of the Kingdom of Galifar itself, a stylized anvil and hammer.

“Well, I think we found it. How do we open it? Anything in the journal?” Darnic will look it over.

 "Um..." Archy flips through the book standing next to his cousins for light and possibly help searching the book. "Probably... Did she mention a sealed door?" Archy compares the symbol on the door to that on the book, and presses them together to compare.

Yrwin scratches the stubble on his chin and shrugs. "I guess knocking won't work." The kithkin pulls up the last bisquit from earlier and looks at it. He opens wide to take it all in his mouth, but gags a little from the smell in the sewer before he BARELY manages to stuff it into his mouth.