As Jørmund and Flicker spoke, Nanna May took a third bite out of the cultist heart as she listened to them. When Rala called for an end to the conversation, Nanna May swallowed her third mouthful of heart flesh and nodded in agreement. "Yes, I think there's been enough rambling for now." Nanna May said as she pulled a forked metal rod out of her satchel. "You have a tower to loot, I have souls to sell, and I see no reason to prolong this meeting. Emmyth, Elnaril, come along."

The two androgynous elves moved to stand behind Nanna May at her call and each placed a hand on one of her shoulders.

"Until next we meet, adventurers." Nanna May said as she began to make Arcane gestures with the rod, causing the rod and the floor beneath Nanna May, Emmyth, Elnaril, and the black bags to start glowing. "Toodle Pip!" With those words, the world around the party was briefly consumed by a bright flash of light. When the party regained their vision a moment later, all who had been standing on the glowing floor were gone and the two surviving cultists were no longer as surviving as they had previously been. Each of them now had a dagger sticking out the tops of their skulls, the points of the blades sticking out from the bottoms of their chins.

While all this was happening, Aura watched through the eyes of her hawk as the familiar flew down into the basement. The basement was illuminated by torches on each of the walls, so aura would have a good view of Arkisz's Steel Defender clumsily fumbling its way through a task it had not been designed for. In its search for danger, the Steel Defender knocked over pots and pans and upturned every table it came across. It hadn't broken anything yet, but Aura would notice some interesting things standing in its imminent path of destruction. These things were a wooden chest, a mirror polished glass case, a ceramic ball on a velvet pedestal, a small painting of a placid field in the rain, and a sealed yet seemingly empty jar.

Most of these items didn't look particularly sturdy. If something wasn't done to stop the Steel Defender, the items would most likely be broken.