Party

Good party for confusiontempst's 21st last night - had critical mass at an appropriately early hour, which to me made it feel much later than it was for the rest of the evening, and enough dancable music. The chilli vodka was entertaining. Some surprising faces came out of the woodwork. Caught up with a couple of people, took some photos.

I seem to a be bit groggy and dehydrated this morning. A nap will be needed before gaming.

PCs: crunchy and good with chlorine

Guido's Treasure
So the PCs determined they were around the corner from a dragon (green), and the dragon determined that there were PCs nearby. The PC's ummed and ahhed a bit before withdrawing, while the dragon buffed before setting off in pursuit. (The silence spell to cover the withdrawal was rather double-edged as the party then couldn't hear the dragon coming).

Dragon scored well on initiative, a couple of PCs got to scatter then the breath weapon went off. Somebody said "there's a lot of 6's there". (12d6, 5 6's, nothing else below 3, 52 damage total). Nobody made their saves.

2 PCs and 1 NPC down (dead (fate pointed)), 1 PC as good as down (especially since he then charged through the dragon's threat area - mmm, chewy - perfectly in character), bard and rogue left standing.

Rogue failed will save against a suggestion to "flee, prey" and would have been running away for the next 6 hours if the cleric hadn't later caught up with him and dispelled it.

The bard's player played his "get out of TPK free card" (which I had given him as a birthday present yesterday) to get time to heal the fallen then with some prompting cast his Glibness spell (+30 to Bluff) and talked the dragon into letting the party leave. The dragon has given them a 24 hour head start and accepted a magical cloak and [really powerful non-magic-radiating widget honest guv] in tribute.

He seriously could have just cast the glibness spell and talked the dragon into letting them leave without having to use the card - it's the textbook situation.