The Haunt

"It does indeed, does anyone have the ability to identify the enchantment on this blade?"

"Not me. We'll need, like, a wizard, or something."

The wind blows eerily outside sending a chill along your spines as you gather with the weapon.

"Let us return to the mansion, maybe this blade is the key we need to further our investigation of the place."

"Brilliant plan. Let's hope it holds water. I dont like this at all

Melissa shudders and looks back at the pool. "No more talk about water, please."

You make your way back inside. As you mosey about keeping an eye out for anything "suspicious" You all notice the portcullis is no longer up.
The alcove holds a spiral staircase leading up and a basement hatch to a ladder leading down.

"Like, which way, guys?"

Dargen pulls out a coin. "Heads up, tails down."

He throws the coin up and catches it in his palm. "Up it is."

"Up suits me. Nothing worse than being trapped in a basement." Melissa makes a half-bow and gestures toward the stairs. "After you."

Yes, up is good. up may even mean out. I will cast mass healing word btw.

You arrive at the top of the spiral staircase. You begin to see a pulsing green light coming from the hallway. You see no signs of a light source.

As you crest the final steps, You can hear the sounds of a little girl giggling coming from different directions (each of you hear it from a different direction that is).
The hallway splits before you (see map).

The hall pulses with an eery green glow.

"Zoinks! Thats like, not spooky at all!"

This is the clerk’s office, where a writing desk sits in the south-western corner and a single door on the eastern wall.
Behind the desk, a skeleton is busy at work writing down something in a translucent ethereal ledger book.

As you enter the room you notice something that seems very
unnatural, though not unexpected in a place such as this. It
is a skeleton busy at work behind a writing desk, frantically
writing notes in an translucent ethereal ledger book.
It looks up at you with empty eye sockets, its jaw starts
to move as a hauntingly high pitched voice says "ahh, you
are here! He has been waiting for you!... You may proceed Advisor Gertrude!"

From behind, you feel something evil and dark trespass
through your bodies, as the aspect of a dangerously beautiful
woman with dark and deadly eyes walks straight through you,
a smirk on her ghostly smile. She walks straight through the
closed door and disappears, whilst the skeleton clerk goes
back to his duties.

"G-g-g-ghost!" Scooby jumps into Shaggy's arms.

Shaggy looks over the clerk's shoulder. There might be clues in the ghost's books and such. Scooby sniffs and listens at the door the lady went through.

Melissa draws her bow and moves to the corner of the room, keeping a very careful eye on the animated skeleton while she waits for one of the more undead-smitey members of the party to take charge of the situation.