Skeletal Cat fight

We easily break the skeletal cats into pieces (they can't seem to take a hit) and only get minor 1 or 2 damage scratches from them.
The closet they're in has three children in it, but as we fight the cats we realize that they're just mannequins dressed in child's clothes.
But wait, the cats reassemble themselves every time they're destroyed!
Tim noticed there's something under the circular rug and threw it over the mannequins. It's a teleportation circle! However, it wasn't quite constructed properly and would probably destroy anyone who it attempts to teleport. This could be useful...
Threw the skeletal cats into the faulty teleportation circle to destroy them
Benedict puts one incapacitated cat into a box we found in the room, he says it'll be our pet. He named it boner.
Benedict suggested that we fool Lady Wachter into believing that the mannequins in the attic are Vallakovich children who we have turned into mannequins. The lady may be able to get her "blood and vengeance" after all!
At first, the duty of deceiving the new Bergenmaster appears to obviously befall Minosperyn, our resident deceiver, however he's not convinced that it's a good plan and refuses to take on the role. Sbkhtp reveals he's been deceiving people for "a century" (rounded up from 60 or 70 years) so he's probably the best choice for deceiving Lady Wachter anyway.
After some time spent deliberating the plan, we execute.
We place a mannequin in a downstairs closet in preparation, then bring the Lady into the house to help us "search" for anyone who's left.
Benedict runs out of one closet screaming, having transformed himself to look just like one of the mannequin children (except not a mannequin) and Sbkhtp chases him into the room with the hidden mannequin, at which point, Benedict surreptitiously teleports out of the house. Sbkhtp casts Silent Image on the mannequin and the area surrounding it, simulating the swirling lights of a major transmutation spell. Lady Wachter enters the room just as the last bits of illusory flesh become wood.
 
Wachter: What have you done?
Sbkhtp: I've silenced the petulant brat.
Wachter: ...
Sbkhtp: Do with it what you will. (Hands Lady Wachter a torch from)
 
Lady Wachter is very pleased with us! She gives us the whole Vallakovich mansion and leaves with the mannequin and torch, saying that she has some ideas. Also she has plans to acquire some... equipment for Brokil in half-orc size.
 
In other news: The woman we freed from the chains in the basement is waiting outside where we hid her when Wachter searched the house with us. Also Sbkhtp used Prestidigitation to clean up the chains and clothing in there so it wouldn't look like someone was just freed from that room. Also we destroyed the other two mannequins using the teleporter. (We had to sacrifice a rat in the teleportation circle to activate its destructive abilities. They seem to have an infestation.)
 
The party has gained:
Bergenmaster Wachter's good graces
a skeletal cat in a box
a rat-infested mansion