Your friends left you at the door, looking at you like you were crazy.
Do you dare continue on your own? In your backpack is a beaten old
flashlight, and lunch packed by Mom, along with your other junk, a
comic book, keys, stuff like that.
As you go forward you notice the carpet is soft, almost new. WEIRD,
because this house is over a hundred years old, and it's last owner
was the talk of ghost stories before you were born. Not stopping to
wonder, you keep going, switching on your flashlight as it gets dark.
The staircase looks interesting enough, but off to your right is a
huge wooden archway. Richly colored carpeting leads down into the
descending darkness.