Surprise
Up to the balcony you go. Pushing open the double doors reveals a large sitting room, that was once well-furnished before being completely ravaged. You assume the ravaging was done by the man-creature huddled in the corner.
He/it stands when the door opens. It's a man once dressed in fine clothes, reduced to rags. Wild grey hair, horrible, bloodshot eyes, and thin as hell, so thin in fact there are holes in his body, where you can see dried bones jutting out or even see right through him.
"So hungry..." he hisses, and before you know it... (blogrolling), Dave FoO, he's sprinted across the room, leapt on your shoulders, and from the force of the blow, pushed the both of you off the balcony back onto the ballroom floor.
Dave FoO, you take 5 hp from the fall, and now this crazy ghoul master is scrambling to get your helmet off and eat your brain. You take another 6 hp dmg from the guy's talons in your neck. Make a save vs. paralyzation.