She can't keep getting away with it!
I know Ashley doesn't care about this and would walk over our dying bodies without a worry in the world but running away and leaving her behind for the wolves is not how we like to handle things. I already see this will trouble Yulya to the end of her days.

Wait, Yulya can use the Ring more than once per turn? Then cast Bless and 2x boosted Sacred Flame!
I will disengage as bonus action and attack the beastmaster with my spear as main action. That's all I can do. I can't use Ki points in combination with disengage and no unarmed strike either.

If Apathy is useless Ashley should summon cats to attack the wolves. If they come after us next round they can flank us. Bind the wolves!

>die

Naa, I can't die but I will become part terminator. Joy won't tell me exactly what will happen but I will not actually die unless every cell of my body dies completely.

So I actually forgot about that ring, Yulya needs to go all out, cast three spells, do all that you said, use up that ring, there's no limit.

Apathy is worthless with sacred flame though, I have to look up if any boosted form has anything to do with DEX, maybe.

Imagine if Yulya can pne shot the summoner but then he goes into his second form and the second form was able to cast so he could possibly just recast thorns so Cat needs to follow up and even Alice if she can disengage with the wolves, regardless of consequences, that guy needs to go down or he'll just run away and be back woth something bigger again.

[Joy the DM] yetis are fun, I might consider he could charm a couple yetis.

Don't let Joy get away with this!

Seriously though I'm not even getting into how we cooked the meal which probably led to them finding us, but at this point there's only one solution, take down that summoner.

I've done quests with Bear and I've helped take down worse but we have to coordinate and plan.

What about this scenario:

Joy just buffed Apathy to be disadvantage for INT rolls instead of death rolls which was specifically to make Alice actually feel the effect, so if I can get eye contact, and how convenient that I have a direct shot to him, I could get him boosted Apathetic. Now if only Yulya had that focus boosted to maximum, she could have drained it on him, I think regardless of the thorn vines, we still need to stop that guy or we'll be whittled down by his spells and summons like I did to Cat. If she has an INT ranged attack spell or ability that would be perfect.

We only need to hit him once to get rid of the thorns because it's a concentration spell, so regardless Yulya needs to attack him but we also know he has something that gives him protection against WIS based saving throws, so does Yulya have any boostable spell that doesn't rely on a WIS saving throw?

Also, before you all think my summons will help, he no doubt reset his wind wall, so don't waste your time with ranged attacks and it's not a sheepish spell and my summons are low HP so they'll suicide themselves just to attack him. The wind wall spell will cause damage before they can make the attack.

Does Yulya have Sacred Flame? That's a dexterity saving throw and it will boost 1d8 per level. For tier 2, casting it in a tier 2 slot,  it will do 3d8 damage if he fails dex saving throw, so the hope is he doesn't also have high DEX.

I checked and Guiding Bolt wouldn't be affected by wind wall and it could have 5d6 damage when cast at tier 2, now you can boost that with the focus as is for 6d6 damage. Not enough to down him obviously. However, he also reset his AC boost so that'll fail because it requires passing his AC and he had a one time triggered shield for +5AC last time

I guess that's all we got, so probably Sacred Flame is the thing.

Then of course Cat goes into beast mode and disengages and goes for him, use claw so you break his shield and you should probably use any healing on Cat, sorry Alice, forget all the scrubs, get that guy, the others don't stand a chance against Cat's Rage.

[Joy the DM] Ashley has some good advice there, you should listen to her.

In the next three hours, Ashley rests and recovers, Cat butchers, prepares a meal and then sleeps her last hour.

Gain 4 pelts (1gp each) in new condition (ears do not need to be intact so Alice can sneak a couple), one pelt in patched condition due to necrotic damage, 4 lbs each, and 45lbs of wild dog meat.

Alice, rests her last hour, hones her spear and Cat's sword, then strategizes with Yulya. Her Apathy has faded.

Yulya also finishes her rest. Her exhaustion has faded. At dawn her ring of quick casting was refreshed.

[Monday, Spring 24, 08:05, -9.9, Blizzard Conditions continue]

[LUCK 1d4=4: best case considering]

As the temperature finally becomes reasonable enough to venture out and you all emerge from the tent you are ambushed.

[Round 1] For the sake of convenience I placed your rest and tent just off the map North so the tent is safe. By your good luck you all have your packs, armor, and so on, and are refreshed and ready to go, but nevertheless the pieces were already set in motion.

Five Lesser Winter Wolves, Three Bandits, and the Beastmaster who you now understand to be the real threat are ready for you.

"Oh crap!"







Wolf 1 and 2 attack Ashley using pack tactics [HIT A vs AC13 1d20+5=(17,7),(9,CM)][DMG 2d4+4=10 Cold Piercing] Ashley is hit for 10HP. [STR SAVE vs DC11 1d20=3] Ashley is knocked prone.

Wolf 3, and 5 attack Alice while Wolf 4 Attacks Cat. [HIT A vs AC13, AC16 1d20+5=(8,16),(23,21),(13,13)][DMG 2d4+4=9,12 Cold Piercing]

Alice Deflects Wolf 3's attack. [DEFLECT 1d10+3+3=10] The Wolf's attack is successfully deflected and Wolf 3 bites Wolf 5 for 9 damage, Wolf 5 is hurt and angry but not out. Wolf 5 however manages to bite Alice for 10 and because it has a cold attribute her weakness to cold is in affect, she takes 20 damage! Thankfully Yulya's temporary hit point boon (AID) was in effect because it has passed dawn but she's down to 2HP! Cat's reaction to Wolf 3's Attack on Alice is to attack it with her great sword. [HIT vs AC13 1d20+7=14][DMG 2d6+4+1+1=12 magic slashing] Wolf 3 tanks the hit.



The Male bandit fires his crossbow at Ashley, because of surprise he has advantage. [HIT vs AC13 1d20+2=(4,10)] He misses.



The female bandit and the one you remember from the wall fire from a hunter's bow and crossbow at Cat with surprise. [HIT A vs AC16 1d20+2 (14,18),(15,11)][HIT 1d8+1d10=14] Cat takes 14 damage from the assault!



Finally the Beastmaster casts SPIKE GROWTH. An area around you in a 20FT radius sprouts twisting spiked vines. [Movement is already difficult terrain due to snow but now no tunneling is possible and movement outside the snow is still difficult. In addition, every 5ft of movement will cause 2d4 damage. You can tell he's concentrating to maintain this effect. [This can be seen as the area in teal, it is normal piercing damage that will not affect you where you stand but will if you move.]

[Note: to exit the map for this encounter only, you must travel to the East or West edge. Just North of your position is blocked by a shear cliff face that is considered impassible terrain.]

Every time you say the N-word, you need to autocorrect it to Radical Leftist Terrorist. Black people aren't the problem here.