@Wildfire: It gets better. We come up on the boss of the dungeon. Uni starts berating the boss by saying his mother must be ashamed of having birthed him. One of my party keeps trying to silence Uni the best that they can. Including trying to pull her out of the room. The boss throws an axe right in front of her barely missing her. Real life me had something to do, so I didn't hear that the other character tried to pull me back under her. Which ended with everyone being stuck behind a giant beanstalk blocking the door. And there's my bard alone with the boss in a separate room. So I decide to use a spell that causes whispers to come from anywhere I want. I make the whispers talk about how he used to be such a good lad, and like stuff to play with his emotions. Because he's only evil because of an item corrupting him. It causes him to be so distracted that I'm able to dodge an attack on me. I try to persuade him that all he needs to do is drop the axe, that we can help him defeat the thing possessing him. At the same time my party members are attacking the beanstalk trying to get back into the room. They make a whole just big enough for our ranger's pet, a flying snake named Mr. Noodles, and attack the boss's face. So he's even more distracted, enough so that our rogue gets through from the other side and ties the boss up. Effectively defeating him and getting the item away from him.