"Never Winter, Seldom Spring" - A Loose Collection of Adventures

“Yes, he said it was weeks. And paper wouldn’t last out in the elements for years.” She thinks. “We could try asking the twig blights after all, though I don’t know how to entice them.” To Abner, she says “Let’s finish examining the ground floor first before we go upstairs.” Therne will continue back in the other direction to complete going around the house clockwise, starting to the left of the entry.

“Please allow me.” Brozak says to Therne.  He approaches the door to the left of the entryway and attempts to open it, again with his hammer.

[OoC]: Since UnsungNero has posted two different actions, I'm going to assume he changed his mind and take the most recent as his choice.

Brozak pushes open the door to the left of the entry hall with his hammer into what appears to have once been a small drawing room. Thought it's now hard to ascertain its true purpose, due to the extensive damage from fallen debris. A shattered drinks cabinet rests precariously against the back wall, with one door hanging ajar. Amidst the pile of rubble on the floor, Brozak spots a dusty basket-hilt protruding from beneath a pile of bricks - apparently having fallen from its empty mount on the wall above.

Red Perception: 11

Red has no luck spotting anything malicious hiding amidst the rafters of the wrecked ceiling.

Adri will stay in the entryway, watching for anything that may be watching them from the woods. 

Perception: 6

I think I am the only swordsman. Red wants to take a quick look at the sword hilt sticking out of the rubble. If it can be moved without extensive digging he'll draw it out and investigate; if it is well buried he'll trust that it won't be used against us and come back once we check all the rooms for danger. Red's tail is getting twitchy - expecting to be attacked, wondering why we have not been yet, and (after being knocked down yesterday) a little afraid. Starting to sing nervously, quietly ...been caught stealing, once, when I was five...

Investigation 8

Therne caught his attention, so switches song to I'm gonna ramble on, sing my song. Gonna work my way, going round the world..   Bardic Inspiration for Therne: adds 1d6 to an attack save or check in the next 10 minutes (you may decide to use it after rolling but before you learn the result) 

Red steps into the room nervously and grasps the hilt, sliding it free from the rubble. The weapon is a basket-hilt rapier of exquisite design, likely having belonged to the lord of the manor. As the tiefling takes a piece of cloth to wipe the length of the blade clean, his breath catches. Scouring away the dirt furiously, he realises that the blade is indeed made of pure silver.

Therne’s going to look around the room with Detect Magic up:

Perception: 23

Well here is an item to return to Lord Redmane or his heirs. But until then - if fate is playing here...you don't find a silver sword without soon having a need for one, not in most tales anyway. I could see a case where maybe Brother Brozak would need a silver weapon, while the rest of us attack with magic. Is a rapier within your idiom, Brother?

After our Lady finishes her search, the opening opposite into the ballroom, is it? So as to be antiwiddershinsward bound?

This place is giving me an uneasiness. ...And the less I seek my source for some definitive, Closer I am to fine...

Abner

Abner picks up a charred stick and uses it to write his name on the wall in the entryway. A-B-N-E-R

He then wanders back into the room Red found the sword in, and digs deeper into the rubble. Any other treasures? 
Perception: 2

Therne doesn't find anything in this room, her detect magic aura is no longer picking anything up this far along the manor. She does however hear a light scratching noise coming from the upper floor.

Abner enters the room and starts rifling through the rubble. He doesn't find anything worthy of note, except for a handful of papers that appear to be from the same sorrowful journal as those that Therne found.

Abner:

As Adri looks back out into the clearing, she fails to hear the scratching sound coming from the beams above her. Suddenly she hears a loud SQUAWK and feels the weight of a creature crash into her shoulders, clasping onto her with its talons. In the confusion, Adri spins to throw the creature off whilst her vision is blurred by the frantic flapping of leathery bat-like wings. She feels her attacker clamp its beak around her shoulder in a vicious bite. As she turns the creature spins off into the entry hall in a cloud of ash before righting itself. The monstrosity is as big as a hound, with crinkled wings and the face of a demented rooster.

Cockatrice Bite Attack: 14 Damage: 4 

Adri Constitution Saving Throw: 13

After Adri manages to toss the creature from her shoulders, she feels a strange sensation wash over her. Looking down, she sees that her feet and lower legs are turning grey. Confusion turns to horror as she realises that she is beginning to turn to stone.

[OoC]: She is currently restrained and must repeat the Constitution save at the end of her next turn.

Initiative

Abner: 4 20

Adri: 3 17

Brozak: 12 13

Cockatrice: 14 19

Red: 17 7

Therne: 15 20

Combat

Abner, Red and Therne:

The three of you are within the drawing room where the silver rapier was found (the room left of the entrance).

Brozak and Adri:

The two of you are in the entry hall, with Adri stood in the entrance to the manor and Brozak stood in the entrance to the drawing room. The cockatrice is currently adjacent to Adri, on the opposite side of her from Brozak.

[OoC]: Ignore the manipulated results banner, I accidentally put Adri's saving throw above the initiative rolls in my edit which altered the initiative values. The order below is the real order.

Order of Initiative: Therne, Abner, Cockatrice, Adri, Brozak, Red.

[OoC]: To speed things up, I don't mind too much which order cbaer8 and pocketmouse post in. 

Abner

At the sound of the commotion, Abner rushes out and fires his crossbow at the beast.

Light Crossbow.  Attack: 19 . Damage: 9

"Bird thing!"

[OoC]: Which door are you leaving via? Brozak is stood in the right-most door, so you'd have to move around him. Either way, you're still able to fire - but it helps me to know placement-wise. Additionally, the cockatrice has half cover from being behind Adri.

The bolt whizzes through the room and bores a hole clean through the cockatrice's wing - causing an ear-splitting shriek to echo through the ruin.

Abner

(Seeing Brozak in the way, Abner ducked through the north door to fire his crossbow.)

Therne will move past Brozak into the entry hall, and Produce Flame to fling at the cockatrice. If she can move far enough into the room to reduce the cockatrice's cover she will, but not if it means she can't duck back around the corner into the hallway to get cover herself (ie, she should end up north of the room she just came out of).

Produce Flame (Fire): Attack: 20 Damage: 1

The ball of flame just skims the creature's back, barely singing its disgusting mix of fur and feathers.

The cockatrice flaps violently, straight towards Brozak's face. It flies similarly to how an angered chicken might, waving its wings madly with talons out front. It lands on the dragonborn's chest and bites at his face before kicking off and landing in front of him.

Cockatrice Bite Attack: Attack: 4 Damage: 4

Brozak Constitution Saving Throw: 5

Order of Initiative: Therne, Abner, Cockatrice, Adri, Brozak, Red.

[OoC]: Adri, don't forget that you are restrained and that you must make a Constitution saving throw at the end of your turn.

Adri will pull out her mace and take a swing at the creature. 

Attack: 15 Damage: 5

Constitution Saving throw: 7

Adri smashes her mace into the cockatrice's back, buckling it and sending it skidding across the floor. It soon climbs back to its feet and hisses at the few of you in the entry hall.

You all proceed to watch in horror as Adri soon freezes in place in a pose of shock, her skin texture marbling into a blocky, stony surface as she becomes petrified.

Brozak powerfully swings his warhammer at the cockatrice.

Attack: 23 Damage: 9

Red will try to slip past Broz, trying to flank the bugger from the south (since I think Therne and Abner are to the North)

While he goes, bonus action to give Brozak Bardic Inspiration (1d6 add to next roll, choose after roll but before results) If I make it flee, take the opportunity and make it count
My boogaloo, I need it baby I said I like it like that...

then action:

Polly wanna cracker? Cast Dissonant Whispers at Cockatrice 10 psychic damage, and has to flee, half on Wisdom DC13 save

If it flees and I can, opportunity attack with Lord Redmane's rapier

[ooc rolling now, since a meeting is about to start, not sure if (a) I can get to a flank or (b) if advantage counts on OAs. ignore the 2nd roll if I don't deserve it]

Attack with Rapier 14 if hit damage is 8