The archers will focus-fire the crossbowman before he can get off another shot.

Leaving Blai to concentrate on getting this cleric smashed into the ground. It's really convenient they didn't try to surrender. He can't rely on things being that convenient again.

The cleric drops.

Camellia licks her lips.

It is not hard to picture her attentively copying Vicar Vilar's instructions on some halfling on a rack.

Moving on.

"It didn't come up this time," he says, collecting the unholy symbol and smashing it, "but I do mean to accept surrenders should anyone offer one."

Why — oh, probably so he can make them his slaves, that makes sense.

She tilts her head slightly. "Why? Even if they surrender, they will simply be executed for consorting with Baphomet. Unless you mean to set them free?"

"Arranging for their arrest and trial will give even a very Evil person time to reconsider and repent of their deeds and possibly spare them the Abyss. I don't intend to represent to anyone caught doing something heinous that I wouldn't have them arrested but they need not die in battle."

Huh, does that... work?

She smiles at Blai and nods.

"Be careful, sometimes Baphomet cultists will pretend to surrender so you let down your guard."

"We should all be keeping our guards up already." Actually do Lann and Wenduag not know - they totally don't know. Maybe Camellia's being suspicious enough that even a non-Chelish person will notice?? He should have noticed this before and taken the mongrels aside to mention to them what was up and now there's not likely to be a chance without provoking Camellia and the entire point is to get her safely to a jail cell where she can think calmly about regretting murder(s)... ugh.

From the far end of the room: Detect Fiendish Presence.

The middle of the room has a pile of rubble, but he can get over it if he's determined. To his left (when facing the same direction he was facing when he entered), his intuitive sense of direction reports the presence of the less-steep downward tunnel; there are no fiendish presences detectable within reach. To his right, through the other door, there are likely no fiendish presences within reach, but his vision at some angles is being blocked by the stone. (The tunnel to the surface feels much more right than forward at this point.)

Also, it was hard to see from the entryway to this room, but the very back of the room has a large stone basin filled with blood, with a bloody bronze statue of a bull's head above it. (The blood is not detectably fiendish.)

...is the blood clotted or fresh.

It looks fresh, though possibly they're keeping it that way with magic.

Could be. "I think that way is the path to the surface but there are corners I can't Detect around, so we'll want to move slowly," he says when everybody else is over. "Seelah, are you good for another fight or do you need a cure?"

"I could take another channel like the one that got me and be fine. If we run into anything tougher I might be in trouble."

(Meanwhile, Wenduag has apparently decided to take the opportunity to strip the room and its corpses of valuables (with a substantial skew in favor of combat equipment rather than things that would fetch a good price on the surface). She does not appear to be treating this like it has even occurred to her that anyone might find this objectionable.)

It's not particularly. Actually, he's not wearing armor right now and could stand to be, is the cleric's likely to fit?

Probably, yes! It's a chain shirt, and not a magic one, but it's certainly better than nothing. The room and its cultists also have a few scrolls and potions, including one potion of Cure Light Wounds.

He gives Lann the potion. He doesn't have Read Magic today, can he figure out the scrolls without it?

If he's willing to spend a couple minutes looking them over until he pieces them together, he can determine that one of them is a scroll of Firebelly and the other is a scroll of Inflict Moderate Wounds.

"...I think this is a paladin spell too but I don't know if you have any practice with scrolls," Blai says to Seelah, frowning at Firebelly.

She shakes her head. 

He nods and pockets the both of them.

Based on how long the sword effect lasted last time it will persist through anything they run into in the next corridor and then some; he pulls it out, puts Detect Fiendish back up, and takes the lead when everyone's ready.