You're the type of person who people watching scary movies always yell "don't go through that door!" at...

 

Turning around, you go back down the stairs to investigate the roar. At

the foot of the staircase you come face-to-face with the dreaded Wase-Beast.

Only by sheer luck do you escape. The Wase-Beast is so startled by seeing

a prisoner he has not yet broken, that he is shocked into immobility for

several moments.

 

You take this opportunity to go back to the stairs...