"I think the path out is blocked. That's likely to be recent, with all the damage from yesterday's attack, so it might be loose rubble we can clear; I'm not sure from here."

"Seems like it's worth trying, at least."

"Yes. Any last minute preparations, anyone? Camellia, would you care to tell us what spells you have available, do any of you want the list of mine?"

"The spirits granted me two uses of Sleep, one of Unbreakable Heart, and one of Enlarge Person. For my orisons, I have the direction-sensing spell I mentioned earlier, a new one that appears to have some sort of moment-long protective effect, Light, Guidance, and Resistance. I presume you will be able to provide any necessary healing."

"And I've got three Lay On Hands."

(To Blai:) "It'd be good to know what you have for planning, yeah." 

"I've just cast Lay of the Land at second circle; remaining I have Guidance, Create Water, Light, and Detect Fiendish Presence; Bless, Abundant Ammunition - that won't duplicate the cold iron but if you run low otherwise it will let you hold out in a longer fight - Weapons Against Evil, Air Bubble, and Divine Favor; Delay Poison, Burst of Radiance, Spear of Purity, and Qualm; Summon Monster III and Prayer."

"I've never heard of half of those."

"Which ones? I can explain them." Not, in the case of the Spear, that well, but still.

"The fiendish presence one, the one about weapons for fighting Evil, the radiance one, the one with the spear, Qualm, and Prayer. Or the one for poison, but I can guess from the name." 

"Detect Fiendish Presence will reveal demons and their cultists - it will also flag other evil outsiders and their servants and clerics but those are less likely. Weapons Against Evil will stretch to cover several weapons and does something much like having them be cold iron does - so, redundant on my mace and the arrows from Dyra but we might run out of the latter if there are enough demons and we're fortunate with them. Burst of Radiance blinds everyone in a ten foot burst, so I will tend to aim it away from us, but it only harms Evil creatures. The spear will do a lot of damage to demons but it's a spear-shaped magical attack so it doesn't matter if you're nearby in that case. Qualm makes someone stop and rethink their choices and impairs them at doing anything other than that. Prayer buffs allies and debuffs enemies within a burst."

"Is Detect Fiendish Presence going to get confused about us mongrels?"

"I would not expect so but I can check now while we're all in a calm situation. Detect Fiendish Presence."

Wenduag does not look happy about this.

The spell does not think there are any Fiendish Presences in the area.

"All clear."

"Well, I'm glad the taint of the Abyss isn't strong enough that your magic thinks we're demons." He laughs.

Wenduag glares at Lann.

"Yes," Blai agrees mildly. "Anything else?"

"How often can you do your trick with the sword? It could come in handy in the Maze."

"I don't know. It is presenting itself as though I can do it as many times as I might like but this might or might not be true."

"That's all I can think of."

"How many channels d'you get?"

"Only two."

Camellia smirks.