[IC] A Stolen Land

[Nexendia]

Nex gets her familiar's attention and then points the sky while making circular motion.  She lets him know to be careful and to return if anything seems suspicious.

[Scarf has a perception +6; Fly +11; Stealth +11]

While traveling through the forest, Nexendia will use her Prestidigitation to color the Bark of trees and to create crude stone arrows on the ground to indicate the direction they traveled.  She will also slowly scan all around the party with detect magic for any type of magic that might hint at an illusion or some other trickery or magical trap.

[Valdi]

Valdi continually cycles among the group as they travel, making sure everyone has a Guidance spell in effect. When not casting Guidance he casts Detect Magic and maintains concentration on it.

[DM Dougfan]

Scarf catches the scent before anyone else does, but it's pretty clear that there is a smell. It cuts through the loamy air like a well-sharpened knife. Following it to its source, you find a large patch of delicious moon radishes growing in an arrowhead-shaped patch. No sooner do you get close enough that your ears hear the distinct sound of moaning. The sound comes from four kobolds lying on their backs in the center of the patch, with 3 overfilled baskets lying nearby. They aren't currently moving, save to roll slightly one way or the other or breathe.

Intentions?

[Valdi]

Valdi whispers, "We dare not move closer, something unnatural must have them asleep."

He concentrates on the clearing and kobolds with his Detect Magic.

[Vidar the Red]

Vidar stops and waits for the others. Where was the moaning coming from? Are they sick? He goes to his pack on Skinfaxi and reaches for the rope to show the others.

[Tushou]

Vidar: "...sound of moaning. The sound comes from four kobolds lying on their backs..."

Can we see what are in the overfilled baskets?
Where is the smell coming from? From moon radishes?

Kobolds instead of fey? Hm, maybe they ate or drank something ... or there is a trap. Kobolds like traps. - he whispers and readies his javelin.

[Nexendia]

"I suspect that while picking the radishes they were also sampling them at the same time.  Perhaps they ate too much or the radishes are poisoned or enchanted."

[OoC: Do our detect magic spells detect anything within range?]

[DM Dougfan]

Detect Magic detects only anything you might have that is magical. Everything in the arrowhead-shaped clearing registers as distinctly non-magical.

[Nexendia]

[OoC: Detect magics range is a 60' cone.  Do we detect anything while we scan back and forth? ]

Nexendia stays out of the clearing and tells the group to ready weapons in case this goes ugly.  She tells everyone she's going to talk to them in Draconic.  If no one objects, she says in dragonic, "What happened to you?  Do you need help?"

[Valdi]

Suspecting either fey magic, or poisonous plants, maybe even in the air, Valdi stays out of the clearing and readies his bow.

"They seem drugged to me, to fall asleep in the open like that"

"Do we have any way to see if the air is safe?"