The Black Citadel

The room is large and cluttered with all sorts of alchemy and chemistry equipment. There is a large table in the centre of the room containing all sorts of colourful bubbling beakers and tubes intertwined and intermeshed around each other. In the far right hand corner is a table with three weapons laid out, and along the left hand side of the room are wide shelves with large glass jars containing a strange assortment of animals. What will you examine?