Foyer 2

Luigi turns the doorknob, but finds it locked. Confused, he takes a step back. Suddenly, an onimous laugh is heard and he's suddenly lifted into the air and slammed into the wall. Suddenly panicking, Luigi flees, running towards the front door, but is grabbed before he can turn the knob.

Suddenly, the front door swings open, revealing a stubby, white-haired man in a labcoat. Luigi immediately recognizes the man as Elvin Gadd, armed with the Poltergust 3000 and a flashlight. E. Gadd shines the flashlight in Luigi's face, revealing a Gold Ghost carrying him, and quickly attacks the ghost with the Poltergust, sucking it up into the vacuum-like device as Luigi falls back to the floor. With a small nod, the short professor hands the green-clad hero the device and heads back to his lab.

Luigi takes another look and sees that the ghost dropped a key. After trying the door on the bottom floor and the one to the left of the top floor, he finally decided that the key belonged to the door straight in front of him at the top of the stairs.

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