"Luigi, do you know any new tunes?" Madame Leota asked. Luigi smirked at her & looked around. He saw the light switch up top of the stairs.
"What a place to put a light switch." Luigi said. Luigi walked up the stairs on the left, but they fell. 2 spiders came out of the hole & Luigi captured them in the Poltergust 3000. "Well, this way's-a busted." Luigi said. He walked over to the other steps & climbed them, but like the last flight of stairs, it fell & 2 spiders came out, Luigi sucked them into the Poltergust 3000 as well, getting a fortune card in the process. Luigi looked at the spots where the stairs used to be. "Great, now how-a can I get up there?" he asked.
"Luigi." Madame Leota piped up. "Spirits leave behind residue from when they were here. I could use that to communicate with them & find some clues to help you." Luigi smiles in hope, pulled Leota from his back pocket, & looked at her.
"Alright." He said. "Is there a clue for-a this?" Madame Leota closed her eyes & concentrated for a bit. Her eyes then shot open.
"When the easy way you cannot climb, a crooked path could save you time." Madame Leota said. Luigi scratched his chin, pondering the clue's meaning & possible answer.
"Hmm, when-a the easy way you cannot climb, a crooked path could save-a you time." Luigi said. Then he saw a lob-sided painting of a dirt road & got an idea. "Bingo!" He said, snapping his fingers. He walked up to the painting & hit search mode on the GBH. Air started rushing into the painting. Luigi shut off search mode & entered the flow. He got sucked into the painting. After which, he stood up & looked around. "Hmm." He said "Maybe I-a go up this path." He said, pointing up the path. Luigi put the hose away & walked up the path. He came to the exit on another painting that was similar to the painting he entered, & was also on the second floor. "Ah, an exit." Luigi said. He hop out of the painting & saw he was on the balcony. He pulled out the flashlight on the end of the vacuum cord, several spiders were there, he sucked them into the Poltergust 3000.
"Ha." He said. "No-a spiders are getting the best of me." Luigi said. He looked around & saw the light switch. "Aha." He said. Luigi approached the light switch, but 2 evil spirits appeared. He shined them both & sucked them both into the Poltergust 3000. He then flipped the switch on & the lights came on. The stairs came back & the room returned to normal.
"Ah." Luigi said. "The stairs are-a back." Luigi put the hose away & began whistling the Luigi's Mansion theme while walking across the balcony. He saw the urn on the end pulsating, & the GBH was reacting to it. He shook it & 4 spirits flew out, scurrying off in different directions.
"Oh no-a you don't." Luigi said. Luigi switched to the beacon & captured the ghosts. 1 of them dropped another death certificate piece. Luigi picked it up.
"Another death certificate-a piece?" Luigi asked, eyeing the piece curiously.
Luigi walked back to the stairs when he noticed the painting on the wall at the top of them. He examined it & Madame Leota came out, looking at the painting.
"Hmm." Leota said. "This looks like something the brotherhood of shadows would use. But how to get in... we'd better take care of that later." Luigi agreed with her. He put her away & the GBH started beeping. Luigi answered it & saw Professor E. Gadd.
"Luigi!" E. Gadd shouted. "That portrait, it must be of Atticus Thorn. Hmm, certainly a very distinguished looking fellow. Anyway, I'm picking up a peculiar energy readings behind that portrait. & that energy reading is partially human. Do you know what that means?"
"No." Luigi said. "What?"
"It means that there's somebody in there." The professor said. "The energy reading is mostly comprised of ectoplasmic energy. Apparently the energy reading is a human who is drawing his energy from spirits. It must be Atticus Thorn himself! But now's not the time to worry about that, Luigi. We have to collect the Soul Gems for the Beacon before Atticus finds you. Be careful, Luigi." Luigi shut off the GBH & went to the other side of the balcony to find another urn.
"Another urn?" Luigi ask himself. He shook the urn & more spirits came out. Luigi captured them all. "Gotcha!" He shouted. Luigi then noticed a candelabra on the wall upside down. He turned it right side up & the wall moved out, revealing some cards.
"Aha." Luigi said. He grabbed the cards & went down the stairs. "There's gotta be more ghosts around-a here." Luigi said. He then noticed the chair near the bottom of the stairs pulsating. He shook it & spirits came out. He captured them with the beacon. "Now some more-a spirits are-a in rehab." Luigi said. He then realized he collected all the souls. He put the beacon on his back, went over to a door near a grandfather clock, & unlocks the spirit barrier. He then walked over to the clock. "What's-a this?" He asked out loud, Madam Leota then piped up from Luigi's pocket.
"That clock can be used to record your progress in the mansion." She said. Luigi smiled.
"Oh, that's-a helpful." He said optimistically, he then unlocked the room & entered it.