Haunting Grounds

«Fear and Delight
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You're willing to help me investigate further? That's a relief! One simply cannot be too careful when it comes to the Continental Circus...
I know not whether you yourself have yet received an invitation, but the troupe is once again hosting a masquerade event in a vacant manor nearby. Now, we've received no complaints this year from those who have successfully attended this event. However...
Others have reported that they were escorted to what they assumed was the venue for the masquerade, only to find themselves pursued by fiends through the echoing corridors of a haunted mansion!
I grant that some people enjoy that sort of thing, bizarre though it may be. However, the guild would be remiss were we not to ensure that none have become lost or trapped in such a clearly unsafe location.
We can hardly ask the troupe for its cooperation in this matter, as I doubt that their intentions in terrifying unsuspecting revelers are pure. Of course, the only other option is to infiltrate the manor─and this is the course that I would ask you to pursue.
I believe that your first step should be to speak with the illusionist over there. Over the course of my observing the troupe's movements, I have seen her conversing with at least two people that would later report having been to the haunted manor.
To be quite honest, if you were to ask nicely, the illusionist might be willing to take you to the haunted manor straightaway. They're not the brightest, these fiends.
Well, aren't you an appetizing little morsel! What can I do for you?
You want to enter the haunted manor? Well then, of course you may! How could we refuse someone so charmingly foolhardy?
You need only speak to one of our dear harlequin guides to be escorted to the site of your future nightmares!
Of course, you may want to ask for a teensy little hint on how to survive, before you do... Else your mind shan't remain intact for long!
Our manor isn't like the dreary, predictable spaces of your mundane world, you know. Oh, it has rules, to be sure─but they are fewer, and the consequences for breaking them all the greater for it...
Good luck, dear!