As for the resting... I don't think it's a problem for the (arcane) casters to help with the watch. We will probably stay there for 12h anyways. Considering, that a day of travel is 8h worth of actual travel time, with 4h for breaks in there, that should be more than enough, and that leaves 12h for the night, plenty of time to have the required 8h of rest and still do some watch duty.
Watch schedule (unless anyone has any objections):
1st - Allyra, Atesh, Kuzgun
2nd - Garon, Maor
3rd - Keldar, Turo, Gorash
And a question... Allyra has prepared an extended Mage Armor using her lesser rod of extend. When she uses a Pearl of Power to refresh this spell, will it still be extended?
Bye
Thanee