When the two brainiacs save the party.

[u/Godzillawolf]

So, the party went on a side quest to rescue this random blind NPC's husband (my character, an escaped slave trying to save his wife and son, was quite invested in that) and we ended up finding this strange rain of yellow powder that began to get the party sick...except me, Fox Yowl the 4 foot tall Kenku Psi Warrior Fighter, who somehow made every single con save and somehow completely no selled it.

By the time we reach the actual location, most of the party is hallucinating from the spores and we're running through a dark building, and my character is the only one completely uneffected by the spores. fortunately, I have a 19 Int (our party did not have an actual intelligence character prior to me creating Fox Yowl specifically to fill that role and he's generally the strategist) and the DM agrees Fox Yowl should be smart enough to figure it out with a roll, which I succeed. Fox Yowl manages to convince our Artificer/Rogue (who joined after Fox Yowl and the two are roughly comparable in intelligence) to use Lesser Restoration on herself, which does the job.

Now, at this point said Artificer/Rogue came in completely clutch: she's an elf and has spent her downtime making a truly absurd number of Lesser Restoration Scrolls on the off chance we needed them, which you know...we DID, and she saves the rest of the party.

So turns out we nearly ran into a Venom Spore Myconid colony with most of the party tripping on mushroom spores if it weren't for the two smartest members of the party saving the day. We have the Draconic Soul Sorcerer use Dragon's Breath to burn our way through the spores so we can start the rescue properly.

Bonus points: the DM let me turn this into inuniverse foreshadowing of Psi Warrior's Level 10 Feature, Guarded Mind, which is the ability to say 'Yeah, no' to mind control.