Dopplewanger! -or- Reach-around Ron’j!

Once the party has descended and disembarked from the elevator, as the device rises upwards into the darkness, the group appoints Barada pointman and off they go. Barada bitches about being placed in the lead – but he is reminded of his invincible armor and insane strength, plus the fact that he is the only one with a chance to detect traps. That doesn’t do much for the attitude, but he does take the front. The group travels about 50 feet, finds a secret door that baffles all but the plucky hobbit, enters and slays three drunken orcs. The orcs are drinking and dicing in a room full of counterfeit goods and speaking tubes that lead to who-knows-where. In the midst of the crates is a rack with a suit of shining chainmail and a equally shining blade. ‘Cursed’ pronounces Barada and the group passes them by with nary a second glance.
Some more wandering finds a looted bootless corpse and a second corpse a few hundred feet further along the passage. The second corpse turns out to be a booby-trap, for when it it rolled over it explodes in a gout of flame and a concussive blast that echoes through the cavernous passages. It severely damages Ron’j!, Barada and Bud for the thirty or forty seconds it takes for the healing spells to undo the damage.
The group presses on and eventually uses Bud’s Fork of Travel to point out a route to stairs leading downward. As they go about their investigation, Barada surprises a Mind Flayer coming up a short set of stairs. He immediately leaps to the attack and shatters his longsword on the stone steps on the second strike. As the monster grapples with him he seizes a dagger from his belt and slays the creature with a single thrust through the ribs. A second Mind Flayer has likewise attacked Ron’j! and the end is equally swift as Bud Feaster and Ron’j! combine to slay it. After the battle is won and the survivors are celebrating the retention of their brains it becomes apparent that these are Dopplegangers and not tentacled horrors from the gulfs beyond space and time. Whew.
Barada’s brain wanders…don’t monster parts get used for spells and potions and what not? What cold you make with a doppleganger’s whanger? How much could you get for the blood? Within the space of seconds the corpses are lifted by Barada and the group retraces their steps to the lift. While the elevator is coming down, Barada dons his Hat of Disguises and changes his appearance to that of Thudmeister Splatski [an ex-EFK, now a puppet lord of Rary] and the group rides it to the top. The corpses are sold off to the wizard’s college and the alchemist’s guild and the brief foray into the lair of the mad wizard is looking pretty profitable.
A night of feasting and celebration is followed by a return to the dungeon in search of the stairs alluded to by the Fork. The path taken is wandering and leads to ramp into inky water (avoided), a strange room with a floor to ceiling tapestry and a much-repaired door (avoided) a pack of ghouls (exploded) and a gold key (plundered). Eventually the group finds what seems to be stairs down. They begin to venture downwards when the stairs erupt into flames. Undaunted, the party charges down the stairs and straight into the teleporter…