We're going to talk to this NPC alchemist and when we arrive at the shop, three thugs are there about to set fire to the shop. We have been asked to avoid killing the low level thugs if possible, because they're taken from among the kids of the oppressed population of this town even if they have been corrupted by the people we're looking to overthrow. My alchemist does not have a lot of nonlethal options in a fight unless she can poison somebody unconscious, but she does have one level of bard, even if her spells basically never work because her saves are so low. Not expecting this to work at all, I cast unnatural lust on one of the thugs, for one of the other thugs. The GM manages to roll so badly that he fails the extremely low save. He says "They're both guys, does that matter?" I say "The save's higher if they couldn't be attracted to the person I'm aiming them at, but is there any reason to believe he's straight?" The GM agrees that there's no reason to assume Thug 1 is straight, so he starts trying to kiss Thug 2. One of the other party members, who specializes in tripping, trips Thug 2, so he goes to the ground (and naturally, Thug 1 follows). Also in our party is a character based on the Disney version of Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame (with a goat as an animal companion). Esmeralda starts her fascinating performance dance and fascinates Thug 3, at which point all of the thugs are sufficiently incapacitated that we can knock them out and/or tie them up with minimal damage done, and the GM needs a couple of minutes to process the fact that he never even got to set the building on fire.
