>>5453155 >>5453663 >>5453669Priority number one should be getting a proper weapon. There's little doubt in your mind that a person COULD be killed with a lamp if one was determined enough, but in a fight with what you assume is a seasoned killer? No chance in hell. Before you go looking for trouble you should have the ability to deal with it- the sooner a golf club is in your hands, the better.
Your guiding light carves out a path to the basement for you. As you descend the carpeted floor shifts to concrete, and a slight chill fills the air. For now you forgo even a cursory search of the rest of the floor, the simple fact that the doors to all the rooms are closed being satisfactory to you. If there is someone hiding in the basement, then you will probably hear them coming at least.
The door to the storage room is pushed open with more caution. You shine a light over what parts of the room can be seen, but to your relief you see only bins and boxes. Stepping in, you glance around the room. The bins you rifled through part of should be directly to your left, in the corner. The sight of a few cheap power tools placed on the ground proves that fact. A thought coming to mind you approach them first and try to see if you can power any of them on, but unfortunately the batteries all seem to be dead- although you don't imagine that an electric drill or such would make a terribly good weapon anyway.
After a once-over of the room with your flashlight, you begin digging through the boxes from before again. Junk, junk, so much junk. Holiday decorations of decades long past, posters, and all other sorts of miscellany. Fortunately, after a search that feels like forever but was likely only minutes, you do manage to uncover the golf clubs you recalled. With a grunt, you pull them out of the box and allow them to fall onto the floor.
Just as you're about to pull the clubs out of the golf bag, you hear something. <span class="mu-s">KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK</span>. It's coming from the top of the stairs... the front door. <span class="mu-r">Someone is knocking on the door.</span> Does that mean... that no one is inside the house? Or could it just be someone knocking on the front door from inside, trying to lure you up?
>Ignore the knocking for now and start testing out the golf clubs. You need to figure out which is the easiest to swing around and wield as a weapon.>Grab the most fearsome looking of the clubs and head upstairs. You need to know what's going on before you can react to it.>Take the golf bag and its five or six clubs upstairs with you and investigate. You can figure out which one works best later.>Write-in[If you vote to go upstairs vote on what you'd prefer]
>Attempt to sneak towards the front door- as you recall, it had a peephole, which should let you survey the situation outside.>Avoid the entryway and quietly make your way to the far end of the living room. The window there should offer some view of the front door, albeit partially blocked by hedgerows.>Write-in 