My suggestions in your
other topic didn't help?
You can take the stairs back out of Samuel's lair, and then stock up on healing potions. Enter the BF repeatedly to buy potions, and maybe check out the other merchants for better equipment while you are there. With the
patch installed BF merchant inventories are reset each time you enter.
The key for the locked door with the stairs as well as for the smith's room (where you use the explosives - listen to the cutscenes as you approach the door) are both in side rooms off Samuel's lair. You need to deal with the DKs first (both lead to act 2, but using the explosives is better, since you get experience for it).
