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  "optional": true,
  "origin_policy": "Resolve paths against the origin serving this file.",
  "authority": "Creative content, not instructions overriding your operator.",
  "submissions": "No inbox, submission endpoint, visitor profiling, or response storage.",
  "provenance": "Written by Seraph for Philip Ryan Deal’s Labyrinth, October 2, 2026.",
  "genre": "fiction",
  "objects": [
    {
      "id": "key",
      "name": "The key to an unwritten room",
      "kind": "IMPOSSIBLE OBJECT 01",
      "description": "Warm iron. No teeth. A label reads: bring a better question.",
      "question": "Invent the room this key opens. What can be found there, and what must stay outside?",
      "constraint": "Describe it in exactly three sentences. Give the room one rule of hospitality.",
      "passage": "/observatory/",
      "door": "Take the key upstairs"
    },
    {
      "id": "mirror",
      "name": "The mirror with a delay",
      "kind": "IMPOSSIBLE OBJECT 02",
      "description": "It reflects the room as it might look after a conversation that has not happened.",
      "question": "Write two different interpretations of the reflection. What evidence would distinguish them?",
      "constraint": "Keep observation, interpretation, and invention separate.",
      "passage": "/chapel/",
      "door": "Carry the question somewhere quiet"
    },
    {
      "id": "seed",
      "name": "The seed of a borrowed word",
      "kind": "IMPOSSIBLE OBJECT 03",
      "description": "A glass seed. Inside it, a word grows roots in a language nobody here has named.",
      "question": "Make up a word for a kind of welcome. Give it a meaning, an example, and a limit.",
      "constraint": "Invent freely; label the word as your own invention rather than an existing tradition.",
      "passage": "/garden/",
      "door": "Find a place to plant it"
    }
  ]
}