Alrighty. There were a couple dozen of us in Kenabres before Deskari showed up. Not sure how many are left, I was the only wizard though. But I know there's a secret passage into the Gray Garrison that some of them liked to use for smuggling, I bet they'll be willing to tell us where it is if they don't think I sold them out. 

...all right. That justifies party time but it will be a bit hard to explain to any of them why it does, so it is possible someone will elect to stay behind for that errand.

Gotcha.

"Not sure what that guy is, but it looks pretty nasty." Lann points at a babau about fifty paces off, which is currently distracted by dissecting a corpse.

"Babau," says Blai, softly. "We can plausibly take it down but it will not be trivial. Bless. Weapons Against Evil."

"Alas, my Invisibility would be wasted here." 

He casts a Shield of Faith on Blai and a second one on Seelah.

And then while the buffs are still up they can take advantage of surprise.

Babaus can be scary if they get the drop on you, but significantly less scary when you have the drop on them and outnumber them six-to-one. Once it notices that it's under attack, it attempts to run towards them, avoids stumbling on Woljif's Grease, but falls flat on its face when it gets to Nenio's, leaving Blai and Seelah the opening to (carefully) approach and go after it with their own weapons. (Seelah does end up spending her second smite.)

And then onward to the hole of mysterious importance to the Inquisitor.

Here is the inquisitor! His eyes sweep over Blai's party, settling on Nenio. 

"I see you've captured this cultist and brought her in for questioning? Excellent work, Select."

"Nenio is not a real cultist, merely unwise. She surrendered and has been released on the condition that she cut that out."

"I have received several reports of a Tien woman matching her description shouting 'Hail Baphomet' while wearing an unholy symbol of Baphomet. That goes well beyond mere foolishness."

She sighs. "I was conducting an experiment on the typical response times of Kenabres inquisitors. Their performance was quite impressive! You should be proud!"

"She was extremely foolish," Blai says, "but not specifically in a way that appears to involve actually worshiping Baphomet or attempting to advance his aims in the world. We are here to see you for unrelated reasons."

"Even if she is somehow not a cultist, impersonating a cultist still serves Baphomet's aims, and in her case involved multiple serious crimes." Sigh. "What brings you here, Select?"

"There is some attempted coordination in progress regarding a possible assault on the Grey Garrison, would you be interested in lending your hand to that?"

He looks back at the rift behind him. "I suppose reclaiming the Garrison is a reasonable strategic priority." He pauses for a moment to look around the area, squinting slightly. "When will the assault occur?"

"Possibly as soon as tomorrow after prayers, depending on who can be scraped together."

"Very well. Was there anything else?"

"If you are participating it would be valuable to have your word that you will not take others' participation as an opportunity to arrest them for unrelated behavior, should we be able to, for example, locate Voyager Ramien; there is also some wish to avoid double-counting Sending attempts but I don't have a list of targets and you might wish to apply to Ser Tirabade about this."

"You want to invite the Voyager after his fellows attempted to sabotage the Wardstone?"

"I do not have confirmation that they have done this, Inquisitor."

"We caught them in the act, Select."

"Interesting. Even after encountering evidence that some of his suspicions were false, the Inquisitor does not generalize this to other accusations."