Garret managed to push his way into the engine room, right behind Ithi'ka.  The room was cramped and full of gnashing gears, as odd necromantic tubes ran solutions of various magical reagants between devices which were nearly incomprehensible.  Nothing stood in the way of gnashing hands in a gear, or being burned by some of the more precarious looking tubes carrying what seemed to be molten metal.  At the very center of the room was nearly the only familiar thing in the entire strange construct of iron; a bound Earth Elemental, held in the classic method of the Zil.<br/><br/>The bound creature moaned slightly in pain, as its essence and energies were diverted to power the eldrich machine.  It was evidently a larger elemental, perhaps even an elder.  Certainly powerful enough to make a very very bad day for everyone if the bindings were opened.  The engine room itself had safe zones less than five feet across, but for someone being careful, the 30 foot diameter room was safe enough.  There were two exits to the engine room, one to the north, and one to the south, both very firmly locked.<br/><br/><br/>Meanwhile in the vestibule, Kasumi's punches knocked the skeletons away and caused them to fade into dust, suggesting that perhaps they weren't even normal skeletons.  A corridor yawned before her, but it wasn't quite possible to see to the end of it, since it was somehow 40 feet long.  The corridor itself seemed to defy gravity, happily turning directly up a wall halfway up its length.<br/>