The picture is a mystery, and with little left to go one, the group decides to return back to the basement. Stepping over the disolving corpse of... whatever it was... Jarrith forces open the semi-stuck door to a large hallway.
The low ceiling of this long hall sags under heavy stone beams. A fog clings to the floor in thick patches, obscuring everything less than 3 feet above the floor. Several worn doors dot the wall opposite as well as a wide stair, with a larger double pair to the west. A figure, initially unaware of you, stands in the eastern end of the hall before a set of wrought iron bars, mumbling and giggling to himself.
As Avron sneezes from the dusty haze, the man quickly turns. What hair remains on his head is in disarray, his clothes a bedraggled mess of something perhaps once fine. Sunken eyes look at you with a look familiar to those who have spent time with the archivist... the look of the mad.
The man scrunches his face a moment as you enter, then declares with an accent somewhere between the thickness of Barovia and the hard vowels of Karnnath.
You there! Yes, you. Why aren't you in your room in the South Tower? Master said that's where you were staying. You'd best retire there, or Cyrus will surely take blame! Back up, now, back! Turn around and up those four floors. Go!
OOC: You are the grey circle on the map.