As you reach the top of the stairs, you hear an echo of a door opening. Quickly you shut off your light and listen. You can hear two different voices getting stronger in the distance. What are you going to do now?

Look for a place to hide. Are we out in the open? If someone comes this way will we be caught? How much noise have our footfalls been making?

Looking for a place to hide would be a good idea since you're out in the open at the top of the stairs. As you think about where to go, you hear another door open and the voices fade out. You have sneakers on, so making your way back down the stairs would be relitively silent. You might have to take on at least two people if they locate you, so you might want to go and prepare yourself at a familiar place.

I think that since the voices faded out after another door opened that it is safe to say that they were headed somewhere else. Could we decipher anything they were saying? I think we should peer out into the hallway, slingshot ready, and begin walking down it to check it out. Going back won't achieve anything but having a place to hide from people that seem to have already left.

You decide that the danger has passed and you want to move on. With your senses tuned in, you turn your light back on and enter the hallway armed and ready. PWFNP