My main point in that was that you can get quite far with observation and pure trial and error, even if you do not know how the things you do precisely work. (In the end, there was already an individual who used a thin ray of extremely concentrated light to neatly and nigh-instantaneously cut through matter, which isn't perhaps the most obvious application of light, either.)

Hrm... And if Olan does still not know what more to do (I doubt Thaler will be taking much initiative right now), you could post just Jaelnec's (and possibly the corporal's) reaction to Aemoten? He would be heading over to the others soon enough; it just turned out there were a few things to be said as he was trying to gather himself up after the fight.