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You look about, but fail to find anything that looks like a map. Guessing from all the different wall-panels they have in this facility, it's likely just behind the wall.
You hate this place, you really do. Fortunately, TW seems to share that opinion, and slowly melts the metal wall down.
That ends up revealing a catwalk. Isn't THAT interesting?
Time to explore!

The walk throughout the bowels of the facility proves to be less interesting then hoped. But, like they say, all roads lead to Rome. You eventually find the largest computer you ever saw. The people here seem to do a lot of programming for a biological research company.
At any rate, it isn't password protected. The information there is pretty boring though, just updates on the state of the subjects and the evacuation orders. They use passageways into houses throughout the city.
They are all long gone by now. You sigh in annoyance. The messages come down to basic status reports. You are about to close it, until Diane stops you. She points at one mail.
It's about TW.

"Subject is proving to be more compliant through pain, but we will need a more efficient way of controlling it. Right now it does not like us, and I don't want to know how badly that thing would mess things up if it got free. The administrator is getting crazier, too. She regresses into a child-like state more and more. She demanded a supersuit, for crying out loud! I'm basically the only one keeping things going here. So we can prove that, yes, humans cannot take attempts at making them more magically gifted.
I suggest we clean the slate, find a way to create children from the subject, and attempt to condition them from an even younger phase. Furthermore, going back to the subject itself, we are attempting to plant a killswitch in it, something that either makes it go berserk, so it'd function as some sort of weapon, and one that makes the thing's heart stop beating. That way, if we can mass-produce these knife-ears, we can create something more potentially destructive then an atom bomb, and as easy to stop like an ant!"

-"T"

Welp, that's just disgusting. You area about to turn around but suddenly another alarm goes off.
Hospital Purge initiated. Have a nice day :3
Why it said colon out loud, then three is something you don't understand. However, guessing from the infernal noise coming from above you, you'd guess that you just lost a few zombies.
Do you stay and explore, or do something else?

Your minions get started on that rumourspreading, but that'll take a bit. You use the lull in the action to take a look at Seum's situation.
You open up the portal and see Seum, looking a bit miserable and covered in vomit. It takes him a bit to notice your portal.
You've been taking your sweet fucking time. It's a massacre here! Something really snapped here... They fired the elven caravan on top of their migrants using a drawbridge! They don't even have a moat or anything! They just placed it on the ground to launch things! They put t-their leader in-Basic dwarven bullshit, basically
Please leave before I remove your lips. This is a conversation I'm trying to have here.
The priestess throws her hands up in the air and leaves in a huff. Fickle mortals.

That was mean. At any rate, I'm sort of moving around the fort, scavenging the food here. The artifacts are all in the hands of the scary dwarves.
So you're fine?
I'm not, really, I'm covered in vomit and need to fight for scraps of roasted tallow roast. I use their alcohol to light my fires and forget my misery.
Yep, be there when this is done.

Your rumor proves to be efficient. A creepy guy in a purple dress approached your tower with 5 skeletons following him. He's clearly nuts, though. Ranting about how the wizard guild threw him out for sending resurrected apprentices send their own death letters to their mothers.
He's a dedicated necromancer, however. Willing to build golems if ever asked or resurrect some basic zombies. Though those tend ot be out of his control.
Basically, he's crazy, dangerous, homicidal, senile, powerful, a liability and likely amusing.
You take him in on a test run.

No. It's just the average dwarven butcher. If you want an idea of what he looks like, just look up pudge. Find the most scary picture you can find of him and amplify the disgustingness and add moving wounds and stitches alongside a constant shadow almost covering him.

Guerrilla warfare is fine and all, but it relies upon superior knowledge of terrain, so it's not the easiest to do. Still, Mongoose knew some basic things. What you're doing is more of an outlasting thing.
The crossbows prove to be very effective, though. But they were too expensive to equip everyone with, so your strike teams have a few each, and just trade them out during the switches.
Basically, the ganks are working out great, at first. Later on, they become careful and hire some protection services alongside some protection from arrows spells.
Then, of course, the second part of your plan started.

It might be rather primitive, but throwing rocks proves to be more effective then thought. It helps that the rocks are pretty large. Putting rods down makes combat easier... All in all, you can beat a group of wizards in a straight-up fight. So, currently, they are just holed up inside their base.
The assassin guild came through on their killing of the leader, too! They have a succession line in place, but panic has to be gripping them now. Your appearances as Mongoose also fuels the rumor that Mongoose took control of the cult.
In the end, it now becomes a turf war. The same guy that gave you a bad map attacked the map with crayons, to show the territory.
How are you going to perform the last bit?

You briefly lament your lack of opposable thumbs. Your anguish at not having the ability to pick things up effectively will haunt you for the rest of your wolf-life. Which is fortunately, probably not going to last long.
Good thing too, you look terrible.
Snowflake throws things after you tried( and failed) to throw a thing with your mouth. It gives it a few dents, but nothing special.
Next plan then, you gather up the boots of the scientists, making you look intensely silly when you wear then, and give a pair to Snowflake as well.

Chewing on cables is surprisingly fun, actually, no wonder all those critters do it! Snowflake is a lot quicker about it by ripping them off, but still. Almost everything is down, and most of the crackling has stopped.
Except there's one huge cable left, and it's on the ceiling. Snowflake, however, was kind enough to show some iniative, and throws you through the air.
Chewing on electric cables in the air should be an Olympic sport. It'd at least be a reason to watch the stupid things.
When it comes loose, the first thing that returns is your thumbs. It looks out of place and ugly compared to the rest of your body, but it's your thumbs!
You fall down, and break a leg. It fortunately fixes itself during the transformation back, so it doesn't matter.

After about 5 minutes, You are yourself again, albeit completely naked. So are TW and Diane. So, in short, it's a naked party of awkwardness and fanservice were this a comic or animated thing. Alas, here we stand, in literature, and a writer who won't even  describe the mammary glands of the two female party members.
Anyways, that was fun. What now?

Hire some assassins, then. We have the money.
We can't pay them to join the gang war. They are willing to do hit and runs, and I payed 25000 coins to get them to kill their leader. It's taking a bit.
Right...
You attempt to go through the portal in your gasform, but sadly, it doesn't work. No living things can go through.
However...

You give Seum the ring, and tell him to hold onto it for a while. You then put yourself into a bottle, and tell the priestess to strengthen the portal a bit.
She does so, and you go through with a quick throw from Seum. When the bottle breaks, green smoke billows out and then condenses into your form once more.
You can't help but laugh in triumph at having bullshitted the system. Seum goes to the entrence of the fort to keep warm while he waits. He silently prays that the dwarves don't rage him off the mountain.
So here you are, standing proud and ready to fuck some old man shit up.
What do you do?

Tw, do you still have your magic?
Nope. It's mostly gone. I still have some lingering stuff.
Alright... TW, carve in that we need a generator.
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to write with your mouth? And besides, he'll follow you.
And so your search begins. The two men the admin sent were quickly dispatched by Snowflake, but you can't use pieces of people as zombies. So you just continue on.

Then, of course, a larger force of men appears. In close combat, however, they are quite unmatched. Snowflake punches a few, and you get your first bite in.
Being a wolf has the advantage of making it possible to bite hard enough to rip off pieces of flesh and shatter bones. And yes, they do indeed turn into ZAMBEHS.

Looking about for a long time, you find a large door with MAGICAL GENERATOR SHUTDOWN ROOM in huge letters.
Taking a look inside proves to be a mistake, as Snowflake gets a tasor to his face. It loudly clicks, and then snowflake falls down like a mountain who... fell down.
So there you stand, a room full of... Scientists? How surprising.
So you're an undead wolf with a cat for a hat and a dog. and they are a bunch of nerds.
Also of note is a huge computer in the middle.
Whaddaya do? If the answer is just "kill them" what do you do then?

You grab Seum by the arm and start pulling him with all your power towards the exit.
We need to go? RIGHT NOW.
B-but Wander-Wander is dead. Beyond that, even, he is pulverized. And there are a few deaths, which means that some dwarves are going to get angry.
So what!?
Those angry dwarves are going to get other dwarves angry. This fortress will start ripping itself apart soon. The mountainhomes have procedures in place, but it'll be a pandemonium for a while.
You run-nay, sprint- towards the exit, swatting an angered female soldier aside. She's carrying her bleedin' child with her.
You are happy you won't be around for the drama later.

When you get outside, the blistering mountain cold feels like a whip, but the relief of getting out on time lessens the sting.
Oh, look at that, you levelled up! You smile in happiness upon recongnising it. Seum remains looking shocked.
Level up!

Decay: Sucks the life out of an area, giving you a small boost and giving penalties to any poor fool standing on the decayed floor.

Dark presence: casting this curse over someone will cause any and all things that detect evil to go off on the victim. They may also take to darker paths. Rolling a 20 will gives the target a strength bonus and gives you the ability to possess them at any time. It also guarantees the darker paths thing.

Rot Missile: fires off a blast of magic that causes appropriate magic. In your case, rot.

Heal and Harm: Gives you the ability to heal people who either follow you or are on the evil side of the alignments. Harms anyone who does not fit these parameters.

Mind scream: Fills surrounding people's minds with aan unearthly shriek, stunning them if they don't pass a mental resistance check. May be troublesome against EXTREMELY evil creatures.(You are more of a lawful evil sort. But I mean that in god-rules, not mortal-laws)

Passive abilities.
Devourer: Gives you the ability to feed off of dead corpses for a decent heal and energy boost when in a host body.  Feeding is done weirdly.
Mental poison: Makes your poison inflict mental damage, and causes fear. This carries over to your solid form.
Non-discriminating Empowering Presence: Anybody nearby gains minor bonus strength. Can be turned off. Stacks with normal empowering presence
Necrotic air: Gives you the ability to slowly rot anything you touch. This can be turned off. This also carries over to your solid form's poison.
Enlarge: You go from dog-sized cloud to ogre-sized cloud

Stats will be posted next update. Also, the reason I didn't give you a level up last update is because I think it would have ruined the mood.