Swamped

The first thing that catches your eye is a pair of pliers. And it clearly looks older than the model you saw in the cabinet.

Did the grebling pull some sleight of hand maneuver to make it look like it was falling on their own head? That seems unlikely. But the fact that there was a blacksmithing tool that high up seems more than a little odd. How would it even get up there...

As you glance up, you think you see your answer. There's some lizards crawling up in the rafters. There's a pile of junk in there, which one of them seems to be guarding.

And another one jumps down and lands on your head as it spots you looking at it. Must have thought you were a threat or something.

None of that really clarifies anything, though. But you hear some groans from the back room soon after - sounds like Stanley and Christine have picked themselves up.

"We'd best be going," you tell Mortimer.

"Okay, but where, exactly?" he asks. It's a good question that you hadn't really thought of an answer to yet.