Ran into the Time Twin posed with a sheet of metal and a big stick about to bang up a storm - managed to not only distract by starting to tell it the story about the first time we met, but also catch the sheet of metal when it lost interest in it and threw it. Guess I picked up something useful in all those years minding the baby cousins after all.
Went on towards the armory. Put on the mask in hopes of remembering secret passages in - did come up with a few, but then as we got there heard howling, battle noise. Parna scouted, reported one of the big demons fighting the armory guards. Decided to go in and try to help armory guards take down demon, then see about guards.
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All started shooting down at it, magicking etc. Korenne got the barghest down in a fireball but all our hits on the demon seemed barely to be hurting it despite Grettir's bow skills. It couldn't do much to us though up on the balcony (although the stupid lightning sphere stopped blasting at it and started aiming at us) especially once it turned itself into a big demonic fog. It was looking like we might all be there for ages poking at each other when finally the nimblewright came back out and vanished it with some kind of Nothorean magic cannon.
Went down, retrieved my roundaxe, and talked to the nimblewright. It was charged to guard the weapons cache with no provisions for Silver Clan coming back to claim their stuff. Went back and forth a bit and ended up with a deal where we could each pick one thing, to be used in fight against Emsariel/Draegloth (and in self-defense) and to be returned when done with that without trying to copy them. And can take some other stuff that isn't dangerous Nothorean tech. Parna a bit weaselly about it - felt some urgency and didn't put in time to pin him down properly, alas. Don't think he'd really backstab me with my honor as Silver Clan on the line, but no doubt he'll see wiggle room around that.