This unit is having mild friction because this guy doesn't trust tieflings and this other guy is a tiefling. This unit is having mild friction because this guy is convinced this other guy damaged his bow and then lied about it. This sorcerer would like to request a transfer to a different unit because her unit commander is absolutely convinced she could learn some 'better' spells if she just put her mind to it (her old unit commander was great, but he died).

This person would like permission to run some sort of class or something on the Neutral Good god Kurgess, there aren't any Kurgess clerics in the mobile army and maybe that's just because no one in Mendev knows who he is.

This person thinks he should dispatch every Pharasmin cleric with second-circle spells to do Early Judgment spells in the hopes of finding cultists.

This guy wants to know if there's any chance he could join the Sarenrite order that only does buffs, he's not a cleric but please, he'll do anything, he'll take on latrine duty every single day for the next ten years—

Would the guy who might or might not have damaged the bow care for a slot in the next Zone they have and/or do either of them want to trade with Doesn't Trust Tieflings? What spells does the sorceress in fact have, that matters to where she can be best used.

Granted as long as someone (Nenio? She's so useful) can corroborate that Kurgess exists and is Neutral Good, Blai has not personally heard of him.

That is not how Early Judgment works, it only shows the target and they can just lie, they'd be relying on freaking people out with images of the Abyss.

Does the Sarenrite order that only does buffs want their own Latrine Guy? If they have a legitimate use for him this is not necessarily out of the question, people with low Wisdom are not immune to suffering harm from being forced to commit violence in the way that empowered Sarenrites might, but if they'd just be taking him as a favor to him and cannot really use that much camp support then it's not logistically justifiable.

Bow guy is happy to take a slot in a Zone and willing to trade with the guy who doesn't trust tieflings. The sorceress has a number of ice-themed spells that are genuinely not very useful against demons with cold resistance and a couple decent buffs that are most of why she's actually with the army; the particular combination of archery-related buffs she has are mostly redundant with her current unit's best archer and could be put to better use over in this other unit of archers.

Nenio can confirm this and provide him with several other facts about Kurgess whether he requests them or not! (Kurgess is actually quite fascinating, he's a very new god but seems a bit more powerful than one would otherwise expect, some scholars have theorized that he's drawing extra power from people praying to him that their favored team will be victorious in athletic competitions—)

No reasonable person could possibly continue to serve the Abyss if they had seen a vision of what truly awaited them!

The buff Sarenrites don't particularly need a latrine guy, but if apprised of the situation in more detail than that they'll immediately start coming up with mundane support tasks that he could usefully do. There's quite a lot that needs doing in an army that isn't direct combat (and the buff Sarenrites are very selected for finding this guy's plight sympathetic).

Blai shuffles people around.

If Kurgess is legit then the guy who likes Him is more than welcome to hold a class on His deal.

Cults are not populated by reasonable people.

Blai is actually going to hold off on being too descriptive about the guy's deal - there might be twelve of these and the first one to have the idea is not necessarily the one in direst need - but if they can in fact use a support guy he is willing to assign them one.

The army can produce more minor problems along those lines for as long as the Knight-Commander has the patience to address them!

In the evening his party's wizards report to him that they've deciphered the first spell from the notes they found in the mysterious puzzle-structure. This particular set of notes really wasn't that challenging once they had the key insight; it proved to be instructions for compressing Rope Trick from fourth circle to third circle. On the one hand, this isn't very useful, since the spell's been at second circle for more than a century, but on the other hand if the other notes have anything this good that isn't widely known it could be incredibly useful.

Great, hopefully the one code segment yields clues to the next.

His scouts report that this tempting-looking shortcut is actually a quagmire that they should avoid sending the army anywhere near, and that there are reports of cultist activity in the area but no actual identifiable cultist dens, and that Fort Joduin (which they'll be marching past the next day) lost literally everyone capable of healing in the simultaneous attacks along the Wardstone line and would really love it if the Crusade could trade them a cleric, or at least a paladin who can lay on hands, is that an exchange he's willing to make and if so does he have anything in particular he'd like in return? It's not a Wardstone fort, if that's relevant to his decision.

What kind of cultist activity have they gotten reports of? On current margins he is willing to trade a cleric away for a wizard of the same circle and would consider other swaps if they don't have one.

That village is suffering from insect-related crop blights and thinks it's probably because of Deskarans, and an old woman in this other village complained about a Chelish delegation passing through a couple weeks ago (complete with an Asmodean priest) even though Cheliax would almost certainly have routed its delegations through this nearby Mendevian fort instead, and that wooded area is supposed to have a little altar to Desna for passing travelers but it was defaced with litanies to Baphomet.

Fort Joduin definitely does not have a wizard. They could offer him this sorcerer, or multiple experienced warriors, or this suit of magic armor, or this really Evil-looking magic flail that they took off one of the demons that attacked them? They're not sure if it's actually Evil or not.

Would Nenio like to assess the magic items? What's the sorcerer specced for?

The sorcerer is only first circle, but he can cast Bless (like a cleric! that's a lot of what they use him for) or Detect Evil or a couple other less useful first-circle spells, and the following cantrips, and he gets six first-circle spells a day, and he knows how to use a guisarme, he's not the kind of sorcerer that's convinced he's too good to learn to fight.

Nenio thinks that the magic armor is a fairly ordinary suit of magical armor, and that the flail will draw power from the wielder's emotions to better damage foes that the wielder has already struck but not managed to kill, with the benefits increasing with the wielder's frustration. She reassures Blai that it does not appear to be Evil or cursed in any way!

...he's gotten enough of an impression of Gorumites now to guess that one of them might like the flail; he himself would rather have the sorcerer so if they'll take a Gorumite maybe they can introduce him to the flail.

They'll take a Gorumite if the Gorumite channels positive! (...They would also accept a negative-channeling Gorumite under the circumstances but they'd really much rather a positive-channeling one.)

What is the present status of his Gorumites on that front?

Nearly all of them do. For all the Mendevian army's faults, most of its members can manage to stay out of Evil, and the cleric personnel allocations for the mobile army were specifically done with an eye to allowing for efficient battlefield channels.

Great, then they can have one of those, does he have a volunteer or should it be whoever's making the most noise?

The Gorumites mostly don't want to miss out on all the great battles they're sure to see on Crusade, but this one here honestly kind of misses the fort life and is willing to volunteer.

Great. He loves it when he can move people around and have things wind up better. Welcome to the Crusade, sorcerer.

Once he's got that squared away, one of his unit commanders wants to complain that the elf girl who's following him around decided to waste her healing on someone who had just been whipped for a minor disciplinary infraction. They were going to heal him in the next channel, they're not stupid, but it really seems like it sends the wrong message for her to just immediately heal him and start acting all sympathetic when really he brought it on himself.

"Oh, it's not a waste of resources, she has a special ability where she can do that an unlimited number of times, though only one to a customer."

"I suppose that's better than the alternative. Still, could you at least tell her to knock off the preaching, or whatever it is that she thinks she's doing?"

"What is she saying?"

"It's all 'I can see you're hurting very badly, and that's making you want to lash out,' like it's some great injustice to whip people."

"Is she bothering people who ask her to go away? - not, is she talking to third parties in their earshot."