Seek Out the Gate House

You wander down the path to a squat stone windowless building with a single heavy wooden door. The door is bound with iron, and a small, wrought iron cage covers a wooden aperture slightly below eye level.

A great iron knocker sits in the center of the door.

Seeing nothing but the winding path you followed - the one that you assume leads to the manor - and tangled, unkempt woods all around, you seem to have three options: Try the Knocker, Continue Down the Path, or Snoop Around the Woods ...