"Have a spot open for grabber?"

He looks at Ess to see if he wants the job while asking,

"Anything up there worth anything?"

“Mostly just piles of rubbish like the other rooms” Ash shows Ben the doll, “I found this though. Thought either the doll itself or just the gems separately might fetch something. Still not ‘riches galore’ yet I think, but may go some way to recouping our costs and time”.

She considers the plan, “Yes I can grab stuff. Might I suggest initiating this with some kind of ranged attack though? It’ll have the same effect as chucking something in, but may thin the swarm a bit in case things go south!”.

"Also get them good and angry so they keep up the chase. Good call. You hear that distraction?"

He looks at the doll and sighs,

"It's something I guess."

He inspects the doll in general and the eyes specifically before handing it back to Ash.

Investigation:14

"Creepy."

Korrik pulls free a pair of darts, almost goes to flourish them across his knuckles, yawns, and thinks better of it.

"Here, one of you take my staff, use it to push the door open, then fall back to the other room, I'll chuck a dart at them and book it out of there."

He'll position himself in the doorway so as soon as door opens, he can throw a dart. 

Attack: 12 Damage: 5

As soon as he throws, he'll sprint down the stairs, and head towards the hallway to the west.

Initiative: 11

Ash hides in the room next to the spiders with the door closed and waits to hear that Korrik has gone, before heading into the spider room, to start searching and grabbing...

Initiative: 7 

Ben stands at the first door of the hall left of the stairs where he can see if the spiders are after Korrik and will alert Ash once they have, or more importantly, if they haven't.

((Edited, end of the hall was too far away when I checked the map.))

Oh and initiative if needed: 7  

(Now you will work dice roller.)

((getting the post ready! Rod, can you bump your initiative post, it says dice rolls not available etc.))

((It is a 7... Not sure why it isn't showing now))

((sorry everyone and thanks for the details!))

Ben, when you checked on the horses, they were fine. 

Ben, the doll eyes are small jades. A regular sized one might be worth a good chunk, but these are quite small. 

Ess would've been on board with any plan. To Ben: "I mean, ok maybe Kay is a bit faster than us, eh bro?" he smiles. TO all: "Yeah. That sounds good. I'll be here should anything get crazy again and can cut the suckers off like last time. Here Kay, yeah gimme that staff, I'll open the door with it and hang onto it for ya until we're done. Then I'll move back and get behind that corner so they don't see me and shoot if I see 'em."

Ok, so Ess is going to open the door for Korrik with the staff and then bolt down the hallway towards Ben. Ash is in the room to the right beside the spiders waiting. 

It goes down like this (and please let me know if I have it wrong and we will roll it back. Also, we are assuming spiders get 'mad' at their attackers and chase them. lol):

Ess pops the door open with the staff. The spiders sense it, and notice Korrik and Ess, but do not attack. They are still calm. Ash is in the other room. Ess starts to bolt towards Ben and stops at the hallway juncture, stepping out of Ben's way in case he shoots something. Korrik chucks the dart. It sticks into the north spider mass (-2), and both of the masses of spiders start to move around frantically. They are very upset! Korrik I'd say you get a few good steps down the hall before the moment of initiative. Maybe you get to the top of the stairs. 

Initiative kicks in now!

Round 1: Ess, Spiders, Korrik, Ash, Busren

Ess stows the staff on his back in his belt, and removes his short bow. He pulls it back and readies a shot for if/when he sees spiders come out the door chasing Korrik. Attack: 13 Damage: 5

The spiders, very angry from what has just transpired, flow off the fireplace and move to chase Korrik who threw the dart at them. Ess's readied arrow is triggered by the first mass of spiders and connects, piercing through the mass. (-2)

That north mass of them reaches Korrik and swarms his body! Attack: 18 Damage: 9

and the spiders cover the halfling and nip at his flesh!

The other mass makes it into the hallway and dashes forward, almost reaching Korrik but cannot swarm him yet. 

Korrik is up!

Map is updated.

((Only thing, Ess should probably not shoot in case that attracts the attention of the spiders.

Was kind of hoping for a surprise round but looks like we only got a partial surprise round?))

Korrik curses under his breath and brushes the spiders off, disengaging and running his full 35 ft. 

((My reasoning for not allowing the surprise round was that the spiders saw Kay and Ess when the door was opened. It’s a huge mass of them and they would’ve sensed the door being open, therefore seeing you guys and not being surprised. Korrik would still get his initial attack though.))

In the case of the mosquito bugs they did not see Ash until after she had thrown her sling.

((ok, so Ess did not shoot that arrow. He just stood in the hallway junction, holding action. If you guys were thinking of something else for Ess, please let me know and it will be so))

Korrik, you brush the hundreds of arachnids off your body and bolt down the stairs.

Ash is up! And then Ben. I have updated the Battlemap 1 and 2 tabs.

((I think you can ready a ‘move’ ‘dash’ action. Ash will draw one of her daggers and then do that. The trigger will be a word or a signal from one of the others and then she will use her reaction to move out of her room and into the room the spiders came from. When she’s there, I assume she can at least see what’s going on in there. Maybe you need a perception roll?: 14 ...

... I hope it all works like that? Thanks)).

((You can use your Action to ready the Dash Action, which lets you move up to your movement speed when you trigger the readied action.))

Ben will just watch and wait until the he spiders have started going down the stairs after Kay.

Once they have done that he'll signal Ash to go.

((Oh cool... if she moves through on the spiders’ turn, maybe she’d then immediately get her own full turn too?! Straight after. (#FingersCrossed) [edit: sorry, I mean SOON after (after Korrik). I just checked the order)])).

Cool! So Ash readies her dash so that it is activated to dash into the fireplace room when she hears one of the others give the signal.

Ben stands ready to give the signal once the spiders start chasing Korrik.

Next Round: Ess, Spiders, Korrik, Ash, Busren

Ess continues to wait as well for the spiders and would also give a signal to Ash once he sees them follow Korrik. 

The spiders do indeed follow Korrik down the stairs, at least for now. However, I need to at least put in some realism here, so I am saying that these spiders won't actually dash towards Korrik. Instead they will just move forward after him with regular movement, more to make sure that he is leaving them alone vs. going forward for an offensive attack.

As this happens, Ben and Ess give the signal to Ash. She uses her 30ft. and that gets her to the fireplace in the other room. The reaction was only for the dash, but she has already seen the glinting object in the fireplace from before. She will have to use an action though on her actual turn to actually search the fireplace and retrieve whatever it is. ((It is not Ash's turn next, so she can't immediately go))

For Korrik:

Korrik is up. Then Ash, then Ben.

Everyone in this moment would also hear someone yell "get the FORK out of here if ya know what's good for ya!" but only Korrik reads the spoiler.

Battlemaps are updated.