When the party split off into several smaller groups, K'hoth, Zirin, and I (Zer
o) went to break into the safe at the top of the tower near the council chamber
.  Zirin flew to the top of the tower and, through the window, saw that the sma
ll office or study at the top had recently been ransacked.  Inside the room was
 a large gold cube that bore several scratches on its surface, as if someone ha
d been attempting to tear it open.

Upon receiving the windling's report, the three of us decided that we should at
tempt to enter the topmost room.  After much bickering between the two children
, K'hoth approached the door to the room while Zirin and I guarded her from a l
ower landing.  Apart from having a design on its front of a circle circumscribe
d about a square with its two diagonals drawn, the door did not appear magical,
 and did not register with K'hoth's "Detect Magic" spell.  She thus pushed the 
catch to open the door.

Unfortunately, this action triggered some sort of trap within the door, and the
 staircase on which she had been standing immediately fell toward the floor bel
ow.  She managed to grab the top landing, but was unable to pull herself up.  I
 thus created a p-adic staircase connecting our landing to the K'hoth's top lan
ding, and, convincing ourselves that the illusionary stairs were real, rejoined
 her at the top.  [I misread the description of the appropriate spell, and prob
ably shouldn't actually have been able to do that.  Oops.  Sorry. --tmack]  We 
hoisted her onto the landing, and the three of us prepared to try to enter the 
room again.

I cast "Factor Integer" on the door, and found a few more illusionary traps.  A
fter I disrupted them with a "Multiply by 0" spell, K'hoth bravely attempted to
 open the door again.  No directly harmful traps activated, but an alarm gong b
egan to sound.  I put a "Potential Barrier" around it to silence it, but not af
ter it rang for a few seconds.  Despite that and the clamour of the staircase f
alling to the tower floor, we never noticed anyone noticing us in the tower.  Z
irin left to patrol the tower's base to signal us if anyone arrived, and K'hoth
 and I began to loot the room.

Inside, we found a map, a pile of scrolls, several small objects vaguely resemb
ling mothballs, and orrery, and the golden safe.  The large map was ostensibly 
of the area immediately outside of the caer, and not the map showing the traps 
lining the tunnel to the outside.  The scrolls were all closed, and bore red, b
lue, or black seals.  K'hoth took a pile of the red scrolls, and I stuffed a ra
ndom collection of them into my knapsack.  There were still several large piles
 remaining.  The small objects were probably solidified spell matrix constructs
, which I thought it safer not to handle.  I think the orrery somehow wound up 
with Zirin, though I'm not sure how exactly that happened.  Since there wasn't 
any obvious way of opening the safe, I made it look like a wooden bench, and K'
hoth and I carried it out of the tower along with the map and scrolls.

Once out of the tower, the three of us decided that it would be prudent to avoi
d the dwarves for the near future, and headed for the ork mines instead of the 
garden.  En route, we encountered Thwack.  He needed more rope than I had with 
me, but accompanied us back to the ork caverns.  Thwack volunteered to carry th
e safe; and since only one person was carrying it, I naturally multiplied it by
 i to turn it into a herring.  (Perhaps I was still a bit drunk.)  We rejoined 
the rest of the party at the mines shortly thereafter.  I dropped the spell on 
the alarm gong after reaching the caverns, so the alarm may still be sounding.