"Okay. I can keep that up nearly indefinitely by tapping patients unless they need two spells."

"Let me know if you're getting low and we can circle some other people around for you to tap, too." 

And to Vanyel - Leareth might be worth bringing in on determining whether there were any major Maiar not in the fortress or major activities planned elsewhere -

:I hadn't gotten the impression he was particularly included in Melkor's recent strategic planning, but sure, might be worth trying. We'd have to ask Bella to teleport us there, I think, I don't really feel inclined to bring him back here: 

I mostly meant the functional one. My people do not have any experience getting the orcs to tell us what was going on here yesterday. All we'd need from the not-functional one is which Maiar he knows of and if that stresses him out we can get it from the orcs too.

:...You know, that makes more sense as a plan. Bella can ask him over the earcuff and then probably pull him here. I can Truth Spell the orcs if you want? I'm tired but that doesn't take much energy: 

That's probably a good idea. Just - want to make absolutely sure we haven't missed anything, that it's over -

:No, of course, I know: He makes an abortive attempt to stand up. :...I, er, can't really move, but if you bring me orcs I'll question them. I'm sure I haven't done that sort of thing as much as Leareth but I've done it some. And you can ask Bella about getting him here in person: 

He nods a bit distractedly and shortly after that some people can bring Vanyel terrified orcs.

(Orcs who are presumably oathed to hate and never ever help Quendi, but Vanyel is visibly not Quendi.) 

Ugh, this is kind of awful actually, but - he lays some coercive Truth Spells and starts asking about Maiar deployments, whether any Maiar who are often around in Angband weren't seen recently, whether they knew about offensives planned elsewhere - troops and weapons kept elsewhere - whether they observed any indirect signs of such, like supplies being moved around...

:I'm going to read some surface thoughts: Yfandes informs him. :Might get us a bit extra, if you're not asking exactly the right questions: 

He's a bit taken aback but she has a point. :...Um, all right: 

Orcs were expecting to die courageously and then be tortured forever by the Elf gods and they're confused and terrified and each have a different thousandth of the picture of the goings-on in Angband but after a while they can start to piece together a picture of which Maiar were active in working for Melkor (the Balrogs, Sauron, Thuringwethil) and what they were doing (preparing for the prophecied arrival of humans in the world, trying to figure out how Leareth got rescued, trying to figure out interworld Gates) and which orcs might know more.

Then he'll ask the Noldor bringing him orcs to find those particular orcs. He wishes he could say anything to reassure them, but he's not in charge here and doesn't know for sure that they're not just going to end up killed.

Is there any evidence of relevant Maiar having been outside of Angband today? 

None of these orcs see them often enough to be informative on that.

Sigh. He can wait for better-informed orcs, or for Leareth to show up, whichever happens first. 

Leareth gets there first and Vanyel gives him a bleary summary. Leareth tells him to get some rest, nudges him towards some tents that are being erected.

See, the problem is that getting to the tents would require walking. 

Then Leareth will help him up and support him along the way. After a few yards he ends up just carrying him. Vanyel isn't a large person. 

After that's taken care of, it sure does sound like time to skim the surface thoughts of every orc within range. That's a lot of orcs but he can judge reasonably fast whether a given one has any idea what's going on, and probe for which authority figures they're thinking about, and then he can go looking for them and start narrowing it down. 

In this fashion he will be a lot faster than the Noldor at identifying which orcs know the Maiar and know Melkor and are expected to know what's going on. These orcs have mostly strategically acquired small children and are hoping the Quendi will let them leave once they're done searching Angband.

...Okay, for one, why are there small children in Angband.  

This seems like not really the point. Leareth can alert the Noldor of which orcs should not be allowed to leave, at least not until they've made sure there aren't any Maiar or major troop placements for them to flee to and start coordinating. He would like to question some of them more to find out the answer to that question. 

Angband is actually majority small orc children and they're running around being terrified and confused! 

The Noldor can bring Leareth orcs of interest.

Can they put the kids somewhere that might be less terrifying for them? He can tell the Noldor which orcs definitely don't know anything of importance and can be assigned as child-supervisors, and he can put up a mage-barrier around them and a spell to keep them warm since it's kind of chilly outside, and then he'll question the orcs who do know things. 

The orcs who do know things are terrified to have been successfully so identified and insistent that they were identified wrongly.

He could really use a Truth Spell about now, but Vanyel is getting some well-earned sleep, so he'll do some careful compulsions - they want to help him, they have to tell the truth. 

Sauron was in Angband. Thuringwethil was in Angband. All the Balrogs were in Angband. Melkor was mostly still trying to figure out how Leareth had been kidnapped back and didn't have further plans until the prophecied arrival of the humans, which was to be pretty soon.