Ben winces and pushes up against the wall as he distractedly tries to put in another bolt.

"Kay! Ess! Help her!"

"Forks and knives! Hold still Ash!" 

He tries to knock one of the ones attached to her off!

Staff Attack: 6 Damage: 9

Slap Attack: 9 Damage: 7

Halfling Powers Activate! Staff Attack: 15 Damage: 6

Korrik, you move ahead past Ess and slap at one of the creatures on Ash. You don't get good footing and miss, but you make the correction and connect with the staff. It smashes against one of the creatures and seems to kill it. Its body falls dead.

((I have been forgetting about Ess's improved crit, so if I miss a 19 let me know!))

"I am SICK of this place homies!" he would've had his sword unsheathed already. He raises it up over his head and slashes horizontally as high as he can trying to cut one of the bugs in half to the north of Korrik. Attack: 19 Damage: 2

while the sword doesn't completely cut the thing in half, the cut is deep enough to kill it. It falls dead.

Next Round: Ash, Bug-Bats, Busren, Korrik, Ess

Ash is up! Map 2 is updated. 

Ash drops her sling and pulls out a dagger. She calms and centres herself, and tries to slice at the creature still attached to her...

Bonus action: using ‘Steady Aim’ to give herself advantage.

Attack action (dagger / advantage): Attack: 15 Damage: 6 ...plus 5 sneak damage.

Ash, your sling drops to the floor as you pull out a dagger and make a quick cut which ends up cutting the creature off your body with the proboscis still stuck in. You pull it out as well and the creature drops dead. 

The remaining creature tries to latch onto Korrik now: Attack: 16 Damage: 4 and the proboscis sticks in! OUCH! (-4) The creature is now attached to Korrik.

Busren, then Korrik then and Ess are up!

Map is updated. 

Ben targets the last bugbat and fires.

 Attack: 24 Damage: 12

"Right. Were there more Ash?"

Ben, this crossbow bolt does not miss. It's a direct hit, and it skewers and sticks the creature into the far wall, dead.

Combat is over.

I won't update the maps yet as I have to step out, but let me know what is next and I will process and update accordingly!

"OMG Ash... dudette... Korrik, dude... are you guys ok? WTF were those things?"

Nature: 1

Halfling Powers Activate! Nature: 18 or 17, whichever's lower.

Ash’s eyes go wide - impressed - as the last bug gets impaled to the wall. “Nice shot!... I think that was the last of them....”, she says to Ben. She takes her hand away from her shoulder, where one of those things had latched on, and a little blood oozes from the wound. She winces and quickly places her hand back to stop the bleeding ((11/24hp)).

“Must have tasty blood... that’s what my mum said... back home, when the mosquitoes bit! Ha!.... “. She bends down to retrieve her sling and to pick up a couple of her spent bullets. “I think the attic is clear now, if we want to try that again and take a proper look around?.... and if this is the only entrance here, we could always rest up there. It’d be pretty defensible I think....”.

"Yuck. Stirges. Nasty little bloodsuckers. Yeah, if that's all of them, I say we check out the attic. You up for a bit of climbing?"

((I assumed, based on Korrik's roll.))

Ash flexes her shoulder, “Sure. I’ll be okay...”, she says, and kicks one of the disgusting bodies away into the corner. Then she scales up into the attic again to tie off the rope and drop the other end down (as they had previously planned)...

((@DM I think you said we could still use Ash’s half decent investigation roll form earlier. Or I can roll again, let me know)).

Korrik springs and swings acrobatically into the attic.

((Hopefully))

Acrobatics: 7

Halfling Powers Activate! Acrobatics: 22

((Why won't these stupid things turn on!?))

Ash looks down the hole and sees the halfling struggling. She drops the secured rope down and says, “Here, try this”. Holding her good arm down through the hole to lend a hand when he’s near the top. “Like i said, it’s probably pretty defensible!”.

((yep exactly Korrik about the stirges - thank you!))

Yes, we will use the previous investigation roll. Korrik you definitely do NOT make it up that rope! 

Ash, in one of the rubbish piles you discover a porcelain doll costumed to look like a sailor. The doll’s eyes are made from small light green colored gems. 

Ben watches Korrik jump up and down comically before walking over and retrieving his bolts.

"I certainly don't plan to spend the night in this place Ash. You can come back with us and we can set you up with a room before that. We have the horses outside and a carriage in town to worry about. Speaking of which I should go check on the horses. You got this covered Ess?"

Ben well then head to a window towards the horses to make sure they are where they were left and doing okay. If they are, he will go back to the room with the spiders in the fireplace and slowly open the door looking at whatever it is they have (of his) thinking.

Korrik sits down on the stairs.

"Holler if you need help Ash, and I'll send Ess right up!"

After a few more moments of thought he will slowly close the door and go to speak with Ess, Kay and Ash.

"So... I have a plan for the spiders. Someone," he looks over at Kay, "should throw something at the spiders and run. As the spiders scurry after Ka-...*cough* the volunteer, someone else will dash in from the other direction and snatch the whatever it is they made their home around."

He looks between the two and up at the hole Ash disappeared up.

"Should work. Someone can just hide behind the door of the other room until the spiders leave and be able to get the whatever before they decide they can't catch K-...whoever it is that is running."

Kay sighs. "Fine. I'll do it. You and Ess at least are too slow for the job."

Ben looks over to Ess and nods and says in mock sadness,

"Truly, we are far, far slower to our everlasting shame."

He looks at Ess then up to the hole,

"Anyone want to do the grabbing side?"

He continues,

"Probably should have a spotter to make sure they are actually chasing and to call if they double back too fast. I should probably do that."

Ash finishes up in the attic, stows the doll inside her clothes, unhitches the rope, and climbs back down, saying “All clear up there I think”, and handing the rope back to Korrik.

”What’s that about the spiders?.... ... oh that’s sounds like a decent plan. Just let me know where you need me”.