(IC) The Witchwood
"Well, if we need something that doesn't make much noise, perhaps a fish? Or a waterbird sitting at the edge of the water, like a large goose? And since you have hypnotic pattern readied, I will try the scroll now, and then you can try an illusion if the crocodile resists," Lyrian suggests. If all are in accord, she will produce the scroll, study it once more to be familiar of how to say the words, and hold it out. "I'm going to put in right in front of his nose, so no one look at it, all right?"
OOC: Casting hypnotic pattern from the scroll, assuming everyone is good with that.