"The setting was the tent rather than the Rope Trick, paperwork replaced with sawdust and the fabric strips with snakes, and a hall of sorts instead of the expected exit. Therein a woman I did not recognize was on the far side of a powdered silver circle, though I did not look at it closely enough to make sure it was consistent with any Magic Circle, and she attempted to enchant me into being angry enough to approach more closely when merely, uh, wanting it at me, was not efficacious. This did not feel subjectively very challenging to throw off and when she attempted to pull harder I woke up. - has it been two hours?"

 "It's only been a few minutes."

"I didn't see an enchantment on you, for whatever that's worth. Or illusion, or transmutation, but I'm not sure if I would."

"Thank you for checking. Is there anything else obviously worth checking that I'm missing?"

"We could check the tent again."

 "We did, multiple times."

"It can't hurt."

"It wouldn't do to become so tired of checking the tent that we become predictably unlikely to. But I admit I do not expect anything to turn up." Tent check.

...Detect Magic guy reports that there's a tiny insect with the dim aura of a lingering divination spell hanging out in the non-Rope-Trick part of the tent.

 "Why is there a bug here. There's not supposed to be a bug here. We checked for that."

Can they kill the bug.

They can kill the bug. It's not any more difficult to kill than a normal bug.

"Do you have a theory about how it got in?"

"There were some extra people in there putting up the fabric, one of them might have brought it in. We can put together a list."

"Thank you." Sigh. "Anything else to check?" Before he goes straight back to sleep, but it's better to maintain slight ambiguity about exactly when that is for anyone without need to know.

"Do you know if any of the clerics are the kind of cleric who get Detect Thoughts? It would make it easier to get more of them."

 "...it's not a cleric spell."

"Sometimes they can get it as a domain spell."

"I do not know us to have any of those."

In that case they don't have any better ideas than adjusting their positioning to make it easier for the one with Detect Magic to sweep the whole tent.

...back to bed with him then.

He is not further disturbed during the night!

Yes, it does keep being a once a night affair which at least makes it slightly easier to go to sleep after something's happened.

Once he's up he would like to see if he has enough information to consider promoting anyone. He's emptied a lot of positions of authority and while their money-handling duties have to be consolidated among apparently-honest people who can figure, their other duties don't necessarily have to.

His advisors would be perfectly happy to recommend candidates for promotion!

......If he doesn't trust his advisors' recommendations, he can probably still come up with some candidates. What sorts of qualities is he prioritizing?

He doesn't really trust his advisor's recommendations but they can be one bit of information among many, he does want people who are well-regarded by the people who'll need to rely on them and follow their orders! He wants clean disciplinary records (it's not zero information about their actual infraction rate), anyone who seemed on the ball in a walk-and-talk gets points for that, of course they've got to be more resistant to enchantment than the average fish, and they should have experience, and it's not a problem if they were initially conscripted but he leans away from promoting people who never actually decided to re-up, and it would be pretty cool if they could read.

...They're not so great about giving people a choice about whether to re-up, though continued presence in the army suggests that someone isn't both capable of getting out of additional terms of service and inclined to do so. He could try filtering for people who might've been able to get out of it but it'd be weakly anticorrelated with combat prowess, it's easier to wiggle out of it if you weren't that useful to begin with.

He will drop that criterion. In the Chelish army it mostly only worked with wizards and clerics and the dynamics here with either are different.

He can find people who more-or-less meet those criteria! Here are a few people recommended by his advisors who appear to meet the other criteria (apart from mostly not having interacted with him in walk-and-talks), complete with many stories of their heroic bravery and occasional stories of their ability to make good decisions under pressure. Here are a few people who stand out that weren't particularly recommended by his advisors, with various reasons why they haven't been promoted already — that one's foreign, that one's a tiefling, that one keeps annoying everyone he works with by being an incredible stickler for the rules, those guys are paladins who might be at risk of Falling. The biggest sticking point in his remaining criteria is the requirement for a clean disciplinary record, lots of people have done something at some point, but it's not completely impossible to overcome.

(Nurah tips him off that one particular candidate absolutely has a history of disciplinary infractions, he's just got the pull to avoid actually getting in trouble for them.)

...how does that pull manifest, he might want to move the guy somewhere it won't go as far.

He would like to put his fellow annoying stickler for the rules somewhere this will be effectual without being too provocative, such as under a guy a couple levels up who has this trait too, or near a bunch of paladins, where's a good spot... does Nurah so long as she's here have anything to say about Mendevian sentiment on foreigners and to what extent it's generally possible for people to naturalize if they're around long enough while otherwise remaining, uh, promotable... stories of heroic bravery are not nothing, cowards make poor soldiers, but decisions under pressure is what you want in command, you don't have to be unusually physically courageous to tell other people to do things...

This unit has disproportionately many paladin archers, he could stick the stickler there?