Chapter 1, Day 2: Into the Witchwood

Corban's charge surprises the minotaur, and while he tries to parry with his heavy axe the effort is in vain and the fighter's blade comes down hard on the creatures upper arm. Blood gushes and the minotaur lets out a fierce howl, it's eyes reddening as it descends into a furious rage.

Zaris pulls himself under the hobgoblin bed and hides himself well.

Corban hits!
Zaris hides

Rurik and Xara have turns to take

Rurik's blast hits the bugbear hard in the back and he stumbles forward, giving Xara a clean opening to slash at his side. Both attacks find gaps in the mage armour and the bugbears blood stains the dirt of the courtyard. He growls and swings his mace at Xara but she is already a few paces back and well out of range.

The bugbear pulls a flask from his belt filled with a cloudly, greyish liquid. He chugs the potions and fades from sight.

The minotaur, filled with bloodlust and rage, swings wildly at Corban but hits nothing but air as the fighter nearly evades both swings.

The manticore's tail swings up in front of it and snaps rapidly forward. Black spikes surge forward, two towards Corban and one towards Xara. A spike aimed at each hits their mark.

Both hit, bugbear is not dead

Bugbear sorcerer goes invisible
Minotaur uses Reckless Attack to attack with Advantage.. and still misses! Attacks against the Minotaur have Advantage this round

Tail spikes: 1 misses Corban
1 Hits Xara for 5 Damage
1 Hits Corban for 5 Damage

Players are up!

Rurik's blast hits the minotaur hard and he stumbles, dropping briefly to one knee before struggling back to his feet and hefting his axe high over his head for one final swing at Kaiakas or Corban.

Hit for 10 Damage. You'll be sad to know he has 1 HP left.

Zaris, you're up!

Zaris leans briefly out from his hiding spot and can see, in the distance, just barely from the angle he's at through the open door, the bulky body of the minotaur behind Corban and Kaiakas. It's a long shot, through a narrow opening. An expert might struggle with the shot if his companions weren't in the way. Zaris, wounded, hand shaking, pulls the trigger and the bolt surges forward. It nicks the edge of the door frame on the way by, slightly adjusting the trajectory - purely by chance - narrowly missing Corban's back and sinking into the minotaur's throat. The mintoaur's eyes go wide, surprised, before he collapses forward.

Hit, killed.

Disadvantage due to the very narrow angle (if you look at the map, it's a perfect line from Zaris to the Minotaur)... BUT, the Mintoaur was granting Advantage to all attacks. The two cancel, and so your first roll stands. 3 Damage is enough.

The manticore, seeing the minotaur fall, the manticore tosses a volley of spikes, one at each of Corban, Kaiakas and the partically concealed Pawetha.

Meanwhile, inside the building, Zaris sees the door the the room immediately north of the beds swing open. Inside is a large table surrounded by about a dozen chairs filling almost the small room. A massive paper is pinned to the table by several daggers. From his vantage point on the floor, half under the bed, he can't make out what it is. The daggers pull themselves out of the table and are discarded on the floor, then the page rolls up and vanishes.

24 and 17 (Disadvantage takes the 17) vs Paws AC, hit for 9 damage
16 vs Corban AC, miss
21 vs Kaiakas, hit for 9 damage

Players are up

Corban runs across the courtyard and dashes into the building the Manticore swooped into. He finds it inside, tossing what must have been its nest over - scattering hundreds of coins across the floor - grabbing onto a bundle of cloth from the mess and a necklace, it turns just as Corban swings and slashes it across the face. The creature lets out a howl and makes to swipe back.

I missed the last bit of the manticore action, swooping down into the building with the hole in the roof. Fortunately, Corban can still chase it in there and bash it!

Hit for 10 damage