Hey! So the Gold Door leads, more or less, to the Onyx door from the Spiral Stair - or, depending on how capricious the statue is, maybe somewhere else! Mostly I had intended it to drop you at the top of where you started, but I also had this funny idea that if you annoyed the statue she'd drop you on the boat, or something.
Glad you enjoy!
I very much enjoyed following this parallel meta-thought - the slowness, the deliberation, how your thoughts slowly but surely coalesced as the writing went on, taking shape. Starting with a blank page and forming something like out of clay, but in one shot with no take-backs, and just being satisfied with the result.
The first ?game has made me sit down and re-read a dozen times. I don't know what it 'means' or care but what it makes me think of and feel is that feeling of finding a secret within a secret, a little hidden something just for me. The 'five false words' part is stuck in my brain like I really did just eat those words, without even specifying what the words were? Like I'm so mad at you for how good this is.