2. You just follow the footprints

You drop your chin to your chest in your efforts to see the footprints ahead of you in the gloom. You step into a dark area where the moon can't spotlight your way and without transition,so smoothly you don't feel a thing, you are in what you instinctively know is the basement of a house. There are faint footprints in what appears to be a light layer of sawdust. The bare two by fours form a sort of see-through maze that you traverse easily. You come up to a staircase and go still immediately. An odd thrum in your vital organs and you feel as if you must hurry, that something is coming, a desperation that amps up your natural adrenalin.

1. You go into the room on the left of the stairs
2. You go into the laundry room on the right of the stairs
3. You stop at the bottom of the stairs and listen
4. You head right up the stairs
5. Despite the sense of urgency, you know that taking the only obvious way is probably not a good idea so you look for another way up
6. You see some still partly wet cement in the floor with a bag of lime close by