I dislike making you wait on responses, buuut gave Autocad ample time to respond. The problem is whilest you all positioned yourself, Detect magic is a V and S spell and whilest your mage took the time to examine things about, she could not do so stealthily and none of you used the time to pre-emptively take out the pirate-guard.<br/><br/>While you are not directly in combat right now, consider yourself to be in a tense situation, no taking 10 or 20 on checks and you might not want to cast things that take more than a full round to complete.