Lost Mine of Phandelver

The bugbears glance at each other, then back at Isolde who is doing foot tricks with The Black Spider's severed head amid the entrails of the slain giant spider. They then look back at the weary party: the disheveled Marcon, a crouching Ronk; eyes wide and fierce, Vanzaren who looked scared but determined to put up a fight, Garet standing there stoically ready to accept whatever fate befell them and finally Rigel with his face twisted into an angry scowl but eyes that pleaded with the bugbears to join them...

One bugbear gives an acquiescent shrug to the other, who returns the gesture with a nod. Rigel's shoulders slump just a little in relief in response to the bugbears' silent agreement to his offered alliance.

BGBR 3
The brute bends down and snatches up his small buckler, fixing it firmly in his grasp while eyeing Rigel. "Better be right little puny man," he growls before turning and stomping towards Isolde while snapping his spiked club around with a few flourishes like a city jailer.

Attack (Morningstar): 13 vs. AC 19 (Isolde); dealing 15 piercing damage on a hit.

Isolde seems to barely notice the approaching bugbear as she tossed around the head with her foot like a hacky-sack. The bugbear broke into a run, bring his spiked club over the top in a hard, downward strike but the slender eladrin merely leaned left at the last minute causing the attack to miss her completely.

Just then, from the door in the hallway behind them, came the sound of pounding on the other side of the locked door, followed closely by the sound of an angry dwarvish voice: "Help! Get me outta here! Confound it! Open this door now!" It was easily recognizeable as the voice of their patron, Gundren Rockseeker.

Marcon, whether it had been for good measure or simply for being looked at by the foebear, let out guttural growl as if daring the bugbear to take another swing. For a brief moment after, a look of disappointment and rising anger crossed his face once the bugbear turned to strike at Isolda. But before he can act on either fury or reason, hearing Gundren gives him pause long enough to glance back down the hall, and even appear to calm down. Juuuust a little.

"Gun... dren?" He said in uncertain tones. Frowning, he then spared Isolda a long look, before with a heated huff, he snatched back up the warhammer and marched back down the tunnel fully intent on literally clawing and smashing the door apart; venting the last of his fury in the act, prior to his hands and arms largely returning back to normal afterwards. Just before the attack however, he'd bark out loudly for Gundren to "GET BACK".

Movement: Back down the hall to the door.

Action: Dragon's Fury(Attack) at the Door.
(Initial, Reckless)Claw - Attack #1: 25 Damage: 6 of non-magical slashing.
(Bonus, Reckless)Claw - Attack #2: 19 Damage: 6 of non-magical slashing. 
(2-Handed, Reckless)Warhammer - Attack #3: 21 Damage: 14 of non-magical bludgeoning(if door is not broken down by then.

End Turn: Rage Ends due to no damage/no attacking a hostile creature... unless doors are suddenly considered hostile. :P

Which each blow, the door begins to crack and splinter under the force of Marcon's determination...if nothing else. The first two strikes take their toll but fail to achieve the farmhand's objective. The third strike, however, was more than enough to reduce the heavy wooden door to little more than firewood, which scattered across the floor inside the room. Peering inside, Marcon finds not only Gundren, but his brother Nundro and a pale-looking Sildar Hallwinter.

The three stand, unarmored and unarmed - save for their balled fists - but nonetheless ready to defend themselves. Seeing Marcon standing in the doorway, Sildar visibly relaxes but Gundren dishes out a healthy dose of dwarven bluster: "Oh are ye done with yer vacationing now, huh? Finally gots arounds to seein' 'bout old Gundren have ye? Ye dolt! I's so damn hungry I's 'bout to have me foot fer a sandwich! Now gimme a weapon and let's get to smashin'!"

(OOC: Gundren, Nundro and Sildar will join the initiative at the bottom of the order after Isolde.)

Meanwhile, the other bugbear (who was not quite ready to follow his companion into direct melee combat with the psychotic eladrin wielding the giant red sword) rips out a javelin, take a few steps forward for momentum and hurls it at Isolde instead

BGBR 2
Attack (Javelin): 9 vs. AC 19 (Isolde); dealing 5 piercing damage on a hit.

Ronk stands and leans against the wall for a moment, feeling... Rather rough at the moment. He sees how fast Isolde works with her sword and lets out a low groan. "This is gonna be bad..." He charges in and stabs at Isolde with his spear twice, then uses the momentum up pulling his spear back to give a disorienting spin before darting back out of the way.

Spear attack on Isolde: 19; Damage on hit - 6

Spear attack on Isolde: 25; Damage on hit - 9

Bonus action: 1 Ki Point for Step of the Wind to take the Disengage action and pull back from Isolde.

(OOC: Just a little tidbit to add as per Discord request)

Marcon half-hearted glares at Gundren. But then with a tired huff, he passed along his warhammer and adds, "Drow's dead, by the way. But we gotz other trouble brew'in out there."

Free-Interact to pass the warhammer.

Isolde dodges one spear thrust and swats away the other with the back of her palm as if she were merely shooing a fly. Ronk realizes his first attack was a little hasty, but knows his second was well-placed...as he withdrew, he felt a tinge of admiration for Isolde's monk-like movements all while remaining completely composed.

ISOLDE
"Well, it looks as though your friend doesn't want to play, so I suppose we'll deal with you first," says Isolde to the bugbear standing right in front of her. She grasps the hilt of her longsword in both hands and swings it sidelong, sending her into a deadly pirouette:

Multi-attack (Nepenthe, two-handed): 21 vs. AC 16 (BGBR 3); dealing 13 slashing damage on a hit. If the target is a fiend or undead, it takes and extra 7 radiant damage.

Multi-attack (Nepenthe, two-handed): 17 vs. AC 16 (BGBR 3); dealing 11 slashing damage on a hit. If the target is a fiend or undead, it takes and extra 10 radiant damage.

She circles several times gaining speed as she pulls the sword close to her chest, then lunges out bringing the blade around waist-high. The tip of her sword catches the bugbear just below his armor and opens up his mid-section from one hip to the other. It happened so fast that he didn't even feel pain, but his eyes went wide as he looked down and saw the inside of his body. He jerked his head back up, mouth agape in surprise, just as Isolde came around for the second swing...this one aimed high enough to catch the bugbear at the base of the neck...and liberated his head from his body.

GUNDREN
The surly dwarf reaches down and picks up the warhammer that Marcon had dropped for him and marches through the door with the determination of a man on a mission. "Eh...now who's that!?" he exclaims upon seeing Isolde as he pushes past Vanzaren into the chamber.

NUNDRO
Having no weapon to wield, the dwarf's brother follows after him, but stops short of entering the chamber as well when he sees Gundren stop in his tracks. "Any of you lot got somthin' I can swing?" he says to the group.

SILDAR
The human walks towards the door and rather than blustering past Marcon, the man stops and offers his thanks: "It seems we owe you and your friends our lives yet again," he says gratefully. (OOC: Sildar will take the dodge action this round.)

Vanzaren passes back his scimitar and draws the moonblade. "Take that," he says, stepping farther into the room and getting ready for whoever tries to swing at him first. "I don't recall inviting you here," he says in Isolde's direction.

Action: Draw Moonblade

Move towards Bugbear 2

Garet gasps heavily as he feels the danger they are in. With a swift move he pulls of his father shield and  gives it to Nundro "I b..believe that is a p..proper cause". Then he grabs gently his medallion and whispers short praying

Shield of Faith on Gundren

OCC: dropping find magic spell

Rigel stalks forward towards Isolde. "Isolde! Your games are over!" Bellows the ranger."Give us the boy and save yourself this trouble." He demands. Rigel finishes his approach with a short burst of speed that ends in a slide placing him immediately to her right. His weapons flash as they pass horizontzlly by each other in parallel but opposing directions in front of him.

Hew Attack: 14 Damage: 9

Rod Attack: 9 Damage: 9

If either attack hits then several additional things will trigger simultaneously. 

A hit with Hew results in the following damage additions.

Hunters mark 3

A hit with either will add the following:

Colossians slayer: 8

Favored foe: 1

If the Flame Tounge converted rod hits then:

Hunters mark will trigger an additional 1 damage

Isolde will have to make a DC 17 strength save or be paralyzed for 1 minute.

She will take an additional 8 Fire damage.

Rigel will use his inspiration point to gain advantage on his attack with the rod.

Second roll: 19

Despite all of his training and skill, both martial and magical, Rigel is unable to land a hit on the eladrin, who just stands still as the attacks somehow manage to miss her completely

Though stopped for a moment by pangs of discomfort, Marcon gives chase after Sildar and the rest, and eventually brushes past to get into the main chamber itself.  Then with an exasperated huff he pushed himself just that little bit more to get behind the elven swordsman and kept to a wider stance as if to keep her departing back through the southern doors. Yet for all his apparent bravery anyone looking closely enough can see a nervousness tinge his every movement. 

Movement/Action: To Dash until directly behind Isolde. 

Sensing that their opponent's defenses far exceeded his own, the only one of Black Spider's henchman that was still alive moved forward cautiously and rather than attacking the eladrin, chose instead to try and distract her in an effort to aid Ronk's next attack.

(OOC: Ronk's first attack roll has advantage.)

Ronk darts in again, and thrusting his spear out at Isolde's head, pulling back, then thrusting it at her gut. As he brings the pear back to him, Ronk swipes at her face with the back of his hand, and fires a foot at Isolde's knee. Finally with a slithering sway to make him a bit harder to target, he retreats again.

Spear attack: 25; damage on hit - 9 piercing

Spear attack: 21; damage on hit - 9 piercing

1 Ki point for flurry of blows

Unarmed Strike: 22; damage on hit - 9 bludgeoning

Unarmed Strike: 22; damage on hit - 9 bludgeoning

Ronk uses Drunken Technique to gain the benefits of the Disengage action as he retreats.

The eladrin tilts her head to the side, casually avoiding the spear thrust in her face, but she failed to anticipate the speed of Ronk's follow-up attack and the spear strikes her squarely in her mid-section, however the blow seemed to barely faze her..****y a tiny droplet of blood issued forth as Ronk withdrew his weapon. His monk strikes failed to connect as Isolde regained her composure. She gave the bugbear an approving nod in admiration of his technique...it had been years - perhaps decades - since someone had been bold enough to strike her and skilled enough to do so successfully.

(POST IN PROGRESS)

ISOLDE
(To Rigel): "Trouble? What trouble....I don't seem to be having any trouble at all. Your rag-tag little team of adventurers can hardly land a scratch me, but I tell you what - if you can find the boy in this massive labyrinth, you can have him. But I want my items back. The person who gave them to you stole them from me...sound like a deal?"

Action (Ready): Isolde will ready her Multi-attack (Greatsword) to be used in case her offer to parley is not accepted/she continues to be attacked by the party.