Chapter 1: Suserration (IC)
Booker and Elmelio considered a variety of possibilities--perhaps this wasn't a haunting at all, but something to do with the fey?
Ember was confident it was a haunting, that the material was a type of ectoplasm. He did not, however, recognize precisely this type of manifestation.
With the material gone from the door, it could be clearly seen. It was a double door of dark oak standing in the middle of the manor's facade, carved with a series of overlapping circles with a stylized "X" at their center. It resembled the design of the front gate.
The door opened on to a large entrance hall. The air inside was musty, and as the door opened air from outside swirled into the manor, giving the eerie sensation that the mansion just took a deep breath around you.
Motes of dust drifted through the air of the room. To the north, a pair of wide staircases ascended to a balcony that encircled the room above. An old, musty carpet on the otherwise-bare wood floor partially lead the way to a double door between the stairs. Four other doors provided exits to either side, while the southwestern and southeastern walls had tall cabinets and coat racks set against them. On the upper floor, the railed ten-foot-wide balcony circled this room, leaving the central area open to the second floor's ceiling twenty feet above.
That's a couple of critical failures, but you have no Research Points to lose. Then Ember earns one! Which isn't enough for actionable information yet, but it's a step in that direction.
And oh right, I should describe the room if the door is opened.