Try casting Improved Invis, Stoneskin, Mirror Image, & (Improved) Haste on yourself before going upstairs (you need to be able to run over the traps *really* fast & *really* protected). Then run to one of the side rooms as soon as you go upstairs & start summoning. The bad guys will trail in & hopefully engage your Summons first, while you cast spells at them. If you have Simulacrum or Project Image (likely on a scroll, I'd guess), then try to run to one of the far south (east or west, depending on which staircase you come up) rooms & cast that.
Either way, make the entrance to the room a deathtrap by casting Skulltrap, Cloudkill, Death Fog if you have it. Once you've got them coming to you, rather than you emerging among all of them, you'll find it much easier to pick them off.
- Imrahil
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