The steel cables won't be easy to cut through, though its certainly possible with an application of strength and effort [OOC Athletics DC18]... but the fall - at most twenty feet - won't likely much injure the undead creature.<br/><br/>But the thought also occurs to him that since the kraken is bound by its steel cables, simply leaving would neutralise it... except for the fact that the only door not engulfed by flames is behind and beneath it, some forty or fifty feet away, and down a flight of stairs to boot.<br/><br/>Then, as his gaze follows the steel cabling up to the ironmongery supporting the stained-glass ceiling above the creature - backlit by the flickering glow of the mansion's other wings, as they burn - an idea comes to Jules... [OOC]but I won't tell you what it is, heh-heh-heh... on the other hand, feel free if you think of it yourself, anyone who so wishes...[/OOC]