ZamFear: You can't hurt it with your weapons. You have to use things in the environment to kill it. That part is pretty annoying, in my opinion.
Calcipher: well theres a corpse you know, so i looted it took the key and the gem extractor thing, ran and opened the door with the key, but im stuck after that
Spoilers ahead:
You need pretty much everything off the corpse, including the meat (dwarf flesh. yum).
Find the room with the big crushinator in the middle of it. There's a socket in one of the machines in this room for the power stone you got off the corpse. Use the power stone on the socket. The crusher now has power :)
Climb the nearby ladder onto the platform. Up here, on the other side of the room is the switch that activates the crusher. When the beast walks in, toss a piece of dwarf flesh under the crusher to lure the beast under it (this is kind of tricky).
Push the button, Frank :)
*squish*
He's not dead yet though. In a nearby room, you'll find a whole lot of drawers, a log book, some lock picking tools, and a lever. take the key, and
pull the lever.
Wander back out to where you first entered the crusher room and explore a little bit. The beast will bust through a wall and chase you. Again. Go back to the crusher room, but this time, pull the lever that's right by the entrance. The lava pit opens opens (if it doesn't you forgot the lever in the side room earlier) and the stupid beast walks right into it. Definitely dead this time.