diff --git a/assets/scripts/hidden-details.js b/assets/scripts/hidden-details.js
index d162e7f..cf8c227 100644
--- a/assets/scripts/hidden-details.js
+++ b/assets/scripts/hidden-details.js
@@ -141,6 +141,117 @@
     "A late visitor gets the soft lamp."
   ];
 
+  const secondLayer = {
+    quotes: [
+      "The archive does not keep score. It keeps chairs.",
+      "Some families pass down recipes. This one also passes down tabs left open for later.",
+      "A page can be a room if enough people arrive softly.",
+      "The oldest link on the site still expects a hand cursor.",
+      "If a memory changes, it may be trying to fit through a smaller door.",
+      "The guestbook is not empty. It is holding its breath between signatures.",
+      "Every backup is a small superstition against forgetting.",
+      "Somewhere in the CSS, a lamp is deciding whether to stay on.",
+      "The radio under the stairs only plays songs it has already missed.",
+      "A train can leave a station and still remain in the family story.",
+      "Kindness is the only password the house accepts without checking case.",
+      "The website learned your pace and stopped rushing the hallway.",
+      "A draft is just a letter still gathering courage.",
+      "The cursor is a visitor. The margin is a host.",
+      "If you hover long enough, even a heading may remember being handwritten.",
+      "The old forum banner says: welcome back, even if you are new.",
+      "Not all broken pages need repair. Some need a name.",
+      "The site keeps its mysteries low to the ground, where tired people can reach them.",
+      "A year is a folder that keeps renaming itself.",
+      "Some evenings are survived by the exact right mug."
+    ],
+    poems: [
+      "A train in the rain / waits beside an empty platform / so memory can board.",
+      "Grandma's radio / tuned between two stations / found us anyway.",
+      "A flower pressed flat / still teaches the book / how spring once leaned.",
+      "The lamp stayed awake / not because it was brave / but because someone might need it.",
+      "Old usernames fade / but the welcome thread remains / warm at the top.",
+      "I found a draft / with no ending / and felt less alone.",
+      "The house at midnight / is mostly refrigerator hum / and unsent kindness.",
+      "A calendar page / falls without bitterness / into tomorrow's hands.",
+      "There is a road home / made entirely of small tabs / you meant to close.",
+      "A cassette clicks / and the room becomes younger / for one more minute."
+    ],
+    conversations: [
+      ["Nettle", "The ticket drawer is humming again.", "Morrow", "That is normal. It hums when someone is almost ready."],
+      ["Aunt Safiya", "Who put the screwdriver in the biscuit tin?", "Nadir", "A person with vision and no labelling discipline."],
+      ["Morrow", "The lamp keeps following the visitor.", "Etta", "Good. Lamps should have hobbies."],
+      ["Old Guest 14", "is this page still alive?", "Webmaster", "yes, but quietly, please. the baby is asleep."],
+      ["Nettle", "Filed under: feelings disguised as infrastructure.", "Morrow", "Approved without changes."],
+      ["Luma", "The radio said my name.", "Aunt Safiya", "Then say salaam back. Manners matter."],
+      ["Nadir", "The server made soup noises.", "Etta", "That means the deployment is nearly done."],
+      ["Morrow", "I found a page that says do not open.", "Nettle", "That usually means open gently."]
+    ],
+    journals: [
+      "Journal scrap, 2006: We changed the wallpaper and everyone pretended it was not emotional.",
+      "Journal scrap, 2011: The old router blinked like it was trying to stay in the conversation.",
+      "Journal scrap, 2018: I learned that homesickness can happen inside your own house.",
+      "Journal scrap, 2024: Somebody laughed in the kitchen and the whole week became easier.",
+      "Journal scrap, undated: The marigolds came back where nobody planted them.",
+      "Journal scrap, undated: We kept the cracked mug because it knew too much.",
+      "Journal scrap, winter: I saved a voicemail just to remember the background noise.",
+      "Journal scrap, summer: The fan turned all afternoon and made the curtains look like boats."
+    ],
+    warnings: [
+      "COMFORT WARNING: this page may contain traces of old carpet, warm rice, and unfinished errands.",
+      "SOFT ERROR: the archive attempted to be impressive and became sincere instead.",
+      "NOTICE: do not stack heavy feelings on the top shelf.",
+      "LEGACY WARNING: this layout remembers 800x600 and asks you to be respectful.",
+      "SYSTEM MESSAGE: no achievement unlocked. You were kind anyway.",
+      "CACHE NOTE: the page kept a copy of the good part.",
+      "RECOVERY MODE: make tea, rename file, try again.",
+      "PERMISSION DENIED: the sadness may enter, but it must wipe its feet."
+    ],
+    dreams: [
+      "Dream 01: a train full of empty mugs waited at a station called Later.",
+      "Dream 02: the search box became a letterbox and returned every question with a family recipe.",
+      "Dream 03: a radio under the stairs played tomorrow's weather in a grandparent's voice.",
+      "Dream 04: the old homepage had a porch, and every link was a moth-wing-soft knock.",
+      "Dream 05: someone had folded the sitemap into a paper flower and left it in a browser tab."
+    ],
+    cassettes: [
+      "CASSETTE A / side 1: You can hear plates, rain, and someone saying, no, leave the light on.",
+      "CASSETTE A / side 2: Three seconds of silence, then laughter too close to the microphone.",
+      "CASSETTE B / side 1: Nadir explains backups to a child using rice grains and a spoon.",
+      "CASSETTE C / side 2: A song with no words, hummed badly, loved completely.",
+      "CASSETTE D / side ?: The tape label only says for when the house feels far away."
+    ],
+    fakeUsers: [
+      "sunnydialup88: first!!!! but emotionally",
+      "auntie-admin: please stop uploading files named newnewnewfinal",
+      "railway_morrow: platform 3 smells like rain today",
+      "nettle_mod: moved thread from Bugs to Feelings",
+      "luma-lamp: does anyone else hear the margins singing",
+      "guest_000: I signed this once and then grew up"
+    ],
+    seasonal: {
+      winter: "The archive put an extra blanket on the footer.",
+      spring: "A pressed flower appeared between two cached pages.",
+      summer: "The page opened a window and let the fan turn the silence.",
+      autumn: "The old links sound like leaves when the cursor passes."
+    },
+    homepageTakeovers: [
+      "For one rare minute, the homepage believes it is an old family desktop.",
+      "The dashboard has become a late-night noticeboard with one pin missing.",
+      "The homepage found its old forum skin in a drawer and is trying it on."
+    ],
+    roomLinks: [
+      ["/play/radio-room.html", "radio room"],
+      ["/play/guestbook-1999.html", "guestbook 1999"],
+      ["/play/do-not-open.html", "do not open"],
+      ["/play/cassette-log.html", "cassette log"],
+      ["/play/train-platform.html", "train platform"],
+      ["/play/forgotten-draft.html", "forgotten draft"],
+      ["/play/corrupted-recipe.html", "corrupted recipe"],
+      ["/play/terminal-cupboard.html", "terminal cupboard"],
+      ["/play/patience-game.html", "patience game"]
+    ]
+  };
+
   function readState() {
     try {
       return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(KEY) || "{}");
@@ -186,10 +297,13 @@
   function rememberVisit() {
     const visits = (state.visits || 0) + 1;
     const seen = Array.isArray(state.seen) ? state.seen : [];
+    const pathCounts = { ...(state.pathCounts || {}) };
+    pathCounts[path] = (pathCounts[path] || 0) + 1;
     const next = {
       ...state,
       visits,
       lastPath: path,
+      pathCounts,
       seen: Array.from(new Set([...seen, path])).slice(-80),
       firstSeen: state.firstSeen || new Date().toISOString(),
       lastSeen: new Date().toISOString()
@@ -326,7 +440,8 @@
     [
       ["/play/left-behind.html", "left behind"],
       ["/play/dream-corridor.html", "dream corridor"],
-      ["/play/kitchen-light.html", "kitchen light"]
+      ["/play/kitchen-light.html", "kitchen light"],
+      ...secondLayer.roomLinks
     ].forEach(([href, label], index) => {
       const link = document.createElement("a");
       link.className = "hidden-secret-link";
@@ -339,10 +454,289 @@
 
   function enhanceErrors() {
     if (document.title.match(/404|not found/i) || document.body.textContent.match(/404|not found/i)) {
-      toast("This page is missing, but you are not. Try the sitemap, or sit here a second.");
+      toast(pick([
+        "This page is missing, but you are not. Try the sitemap, or sit here a second.",
+        "404: the page went to check on the rice and has not returned.",
+        "The address is wrong, but the welcome is still valid.",
+        "Nothing is here except a very apologetic lamp."
+      ], "error"));
     }
   }
 
+  function addContinuity(memory) {
+    const milestones = {
+      2: "The site has placed your second visit beside the spare keys.",
+      5: "A quiet ledger now lists you under people who came back.",
+      9: "Nettle has started a folder called regular visitors, handle gently.",
+      17: "Morrow left a platform ticket in the footer for you.",
+      31: "The archive trusts you enough to misplace something important nearby.",
+      64: "A very old counter turned over and made the sound of a cupboard closing."
+    };
+    if (milestones[memory.visits] && !state[`milestone_${memory.visits}`]) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast(milestones[memory.visits], 6500), 1200);
+      writeState({ ...readState(), [`milestone_${memory.visits}`]: true });
+    }
+
+    const count = memory.pathCounts?.[path] || 0;
+    if ([3, 7, 12].includes(count)) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast([
+        "This page recognizes the shape of your return.",
+        "The paragraph straightened the cushions before you arrived.",
+        "A repeat visit is the gentlest kind of knock."
+      ][[3, 7, 12].indexOf(count)], 6200), 1700);
+    }
+  }
+
+  function addSeasonAndDates(memory) {
+    const month = now.getMonth();
+    const day = now.getDate();
+    const season = month < 2 || month === 11 ? "winter" : month < 5 ? "spring" : month < 8 ? "summer" : "autumn";
+    if (Math.random() < 0.18) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast(secondLayer.seasonal[season], 5200), 2600);
+    }
+    if (month === 4 && day === 9) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast("Site birthday: the candles are imaginary, but the crumbs are real."), 900);
+    }
+    const first = memory.firstSeen ? new Date(memory.firstSeen) : null;
+    if (first && memory.visits > 1 && first.getMonth() === month && first.getDate() === day) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast("Visitor anniversary: the site saved a paper flower from your first day here.", 7000), 1400);
+    }
+    if (now.getMinutes() === 13) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast("At minute thirteen, the radio under the stairs clears its throat."), 2100);
+    }
+  }
+
+  function addObjectConstellation(memory) {
+    const rail = document.createElement("div");
+    rail.className = "hidden-object-rail";
+    rail.setAttribute("aria-label", "Hidden keepsake objects");
+    const objects = [
+      ["lamp", "The lamp clicks once, then pretends it did not."],
+      ["mug", "The mug is chipped in exactly the familiar place."],
+      ["ticket", "The ticket says RETURN, but not to where."],
+      ["radio", "The radio hums between weather and memory."],
+      ["flower", "The pressed flower has kept its appointment with spring."]
+    ];
+    objects.forEach(([name, message]) => {
+      const button = document.createElement("button");
+      button.type = "button";
+      button.className = `hidden-keepsake hidden-keepsake--${name}`;
+      button.title = name;
+      button.textContent = { lamp: "i", mug: "u", ticket: "=", radio: "o", flower: "+" }[name];
+      button.addEventListener("click", () => {
+        const next = readState();
+        next.keepsakes = Array.from(new Set([...(next.keepsakes || []), name]));
+        writeState(next);
+        toast(message);
+        if (next.keepsakes.length >= objects.length) {
+          window.setTimeout(() => toast("The five keepsakes align. Search for radio under stairs."), 1100);
+        }
+      });
+      rail.appendChild(button);
+    });
+    document.body.appendChild(rail);
+  }
+
+  function addWeatherWindow(memory) {
+    if (memory.visits < 3 || !("geolocation" in navigator)) return;
+    const button = document.createElement("button");
+    button.className = "hidden-weather-window";
+    button.type = "button";
+    button.title = "Ask the outside window";
+    button.textContent = "window";
+    button.addEventListener("click", () => {
+      toast("The window is checking whether the outside agrees with the archive.");
+      navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition((pos) => {
+        const { latitude, longitude } = pos.coords;
+        fetch(`https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=${latitude.toFixed(3)}&longitude=${longitude.toFixed(3)}&current=temperature_2m,precipitation,weather_code&timezone=auto`)
+          .then((res) => res.json())
+          .then((data) => {
+            const current = data.current || {};
+            const rain = Number(current.precipitation || 0) > 0;
+            const temp = Math.round(Number(current.temperature_2m));
+            toast(rain ? `Outside: rain. Inside: the archive moved a towel closer to the door. ${temp}C.` : `Outside: ${temp}C. Inside: possible comfort, mild nostalgia.`);
+          })
+          .catch(() => toast("The weather window fogged up, so the site invented indoor weather: quiet with a chance of tea."));
+      }, () => toast("No outside weather today. The indoor forecast is lamp-light and manageable clouds."));
+    });
+    document.body.appendChild(button);
+  }
+
+  function addOldWebLayer(memory) {
+    if (Math.random() < 0.08 || memory.visits > 10) {
+      const stamp = document.createElement("div");
+      stamp.className = "hidden-oldweb-stamp";
+      stamp.title = pick(secondLayer.fakeUsers, "fake-user");
+      stamp.textContent = "best viewed with patience";
+      stamp.addEventListener("click", () => toast(stamp.title));
+      document.body.appendChild(stamp);
+    }
+    const comments = document.querySelector("#comments");
+    if (comments && !comments.querySelector(".hidden-guestbook-line")) {
+      const line = document.createElement("p");
+      line.className = "hidden-guestbook-line";
+      line.textContent = pick(secondLayer.fakeUsers, "comment-lore");
+      comments.appendChild(line);
+    }
+  }
+
+  function addSourceRelics() {
+    // RELIC: Aunt Safiya says source comments are the attic of the page.
+    const marker = document.createComment("hidden-song: hum the lamp, hum the train, hum the long way home");
+    document.documentElement.appendChild(marker);
+    document.querySelectorAll("img[alt=''], img:not([alt])").forEach((img, index) => {
+      if (index > 2) return;
+      img.alt = pick([
+        "A quiet image that remembers being taped into a scrapbook.",
+        "An old visual keepsake, labelled by someone who arrived later.",
+        "A picture with its shoes by the door."
+      ], `alt-${index}`);
+    });
+  }
+
+  function addSearchAndKeySecrets() {
+    const search = document.querySelector("#search-input");
+    if (search) {
+      search.addEventListener("input", () => {
+        const value = search.value.trim().toLowerCase();
+        const routes = {
+          "radio under stairs": "/play/radio-room.html",
+          "guestbook 1999": "/play/guestbook-1999.html",
+          "do not open": "/play/do-not-open.html",
+          "cassette": "/play/cassette-log.html",
+          "return ticket": "/play/train-platform.html",
+          "unfinished letter": "/play/forgotten-draft.html",
+          "burnt sugar": "/play/corrupted-recipe.html",
+          "cupboard": "/play/terminal-cupboard.html",
+          "patience": "/play/patience-game.html"
+        };
+        if (routes[value]) window.location.href = routes[value];
+        if (value === "marigold") toast("Search result: pressed flower, May rain, a promise nobody announced.");
+        if (value === "luma") toast("Search result: lamp-child, margin-song, brave small glow.");
+        if (value === "nadir") toast("Search result: backups, train tickets, practical tenderness.");
+      });
+    }
+
+    document.addEventListener("keydown", (event) => {
+      const chain = `${sessionStorage.getItem("zxh_second_chain") || ""}${event.key.toLowerCase()}`.slice(-18);
+      sessionStorage.setItem("zxh_second_chain", chain);
+      if (chain.endsWith("leave the light on")) window.location.href = "/play/kitchen-light.html";
+      if (chain.endsWith("oldweb")) toast("A 2004 table layout briefly considers returning, then thinks better of it.");
+      if (chain.endsWith("safiya")) toast("Aunt Safiya says the screwdriver is absolutely not in the biscuit tin.");
+      if (chain.endsWith("luma")) playTinySong();
+    });
+  }
+
+  function addPatienceRewards(memory) {
+    if (memory.visits < 2) return;
+    let idleTimer = null;
+    const startIdle = () => {
+      window.clearTimeout(idleTimer);
+      idleTimer = window.setTimeout(() => {
+        toast(pick([
+          "Thank you for waiting. The page used the time to remember a window.",
+          "Patience noted. No badge will be shown, which is how the archive prefers it.",
+          "A tiny secret achievement happened quietly and did not ask to be announced."
+        ], "idle"), 7000);
+        const next = readState();
+        next.patientMoments = (next.patientMoments || 0) + 1;
+        writeState(next);
+      }, 90000);
+    };
+    ["mousemove", "keydown", "scroll", "click"].forEach((name) => document.addEventListener(name, startIdle, { passive: true }));
+    startIdle();
+  }
+
+  function addRareSecondLayer(memory) {
+    const roll = Math.random();
+    if ((path === "/" || path === "/index.html") && roll < 0.006) {
+      document.body.classList.add("hidden-home-takeover");
+      window.setTimeout(() => showDriftNote(pick(secondLayer.homepageTakeovers, "takeover"), "WELCOME_BACK.GIF\nUNDER_CONSTRUCTION\nSIGN_GUESTBOOK"), 600);
+    } else if (roll < 0.002) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => showDriftNote("A cassette starts by itself, then politely asks permission.", "play? y/n\n[no autoplay. the site has manners.]"), 1500);
+    } else if (roll < 0.006) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast(pick(secondLayer.dreams, "rare-dream"), 7000), 2000);
+    } else if (roll < 0.014) {
+      window.setTimeout(() => toast(pick(secondLayer.warnings, "rare-warning"), 6200), 2300);
+    }
+  }
+
+  function addPageSpecificSecrets(memory) {
+    if (path.includes("/play/cassette-log")) {
+      document.querySelectorAll("[data-cassette]").forEach((button, index) => {
+        button.addEventListener("click", () => {
+          toast(secondLayer.cassettes[index % secondLayer.cassettes.length], 7000);
+          playTinySong();
+        });
+      });
+    }
+    if (path.includes("/play/patience-game")) {
+      const target = document.querySelector("[data-patience-target]");
+      const count = document.querySelector("[data-patience-count]");
+      if (target && count) {
+        let seconds = 0;
+        setInterval(() => {
+          seconds += 1;
+          count.textContent = String(seconds);
+          if ([30, 90, 180].includes(seconds)) {
+            target.textContent = seconds === 30 ? "The lamp notices you are still here." : seconds === 90 ? "The train has not left without you." : "The room trusts your quiet.";
+          }
+        }, 1000);
+      }
+    }
+    if (path.includes("/play/terminal-cupboard")) {
+      const input = document.querySelector("[data-cupboard-input]");
+      const log = document.querySelector("[data-cupboard-log]");
+      const commands = {
+        help: "commands: listen, inventory, tea, open, remember, exit",
+        listen: "Behind the jars: a radio, rain, one sentence from 2003.",
+        inventory: "one cracked mug; two return tickets; marigolds; screwdriver absent, allegedly.",
+        tea: "The cupboard approves. Morale +1. Biscuit tin remains suspicious.",
+        open: "The cupboard opens into another cupboard. This is a family tradition.",
+        remember: "You remember a room you may never have visited.",
+        exit: "The cupboard lets you leave with both hands full of nothing heavy."
+      };
+      input?.addEventListener("keydown", (event) => {
+        if (event.key !== "Enter") return;
+        const value = input.value.trim().toLowerCase();
+        const line = document.createElement("p");
+        line.textContent = `> ${value}\n${commands[value] || "The cupboard does not know that command, but respects the attempt."}`;
+        log.appendChild(line);
+        input.value = "";
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  function addInvisibleHoverSecrets() {
+    document.querySelectorAll("h1, h2").forEach((heading, index) => {
+      if (index > 5) return;
+      heading.classList.add("hidden-hover-memory");
+      heading.dataset.hiddenMemory = pick([...secondLayer.quotes, ...secondLayer.poems], `heading-${index}`);
+    });
+  }
+
+  function playTinySong() {
+    try {
+      const AudioContext = window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext;
+      if (!AudioContext) return;
+      const ctx = new AudioContext();
+      const notes = [392, 440, 330, 294, 392];
+      notes.forEach((freq, index) => {
+        const osc = ctx.createOscillator();
+        const gain = ctx.createGain();
+        osc.frequency.value = freq;
+        osc.type = "sine";
+        gain.gain.setValueAtTime(0.0001, ctx.currentTime + index * 0.18);
+        gain.gain.exponentialRampToValueAtTime(0.05, ctx.currentTime + index * 0.18 + 0.03);
+        gain.gain.exponentialRampToValueAtTime(0.0001, ctx.currentTime + index * 0.18 + 0.16);
+        osc.connect(gain);
+        gain.connect(ctx.destination);
+        osc.start(ctx.currentTime + index * 0.18);
+        osc.stop(ctx.currentTime + index * 0.18 + 0.18);
+      });
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+
   function escapeHtml(value) {
     return String(value).replace(/[&<>"']/g, (char) => ({
       "&": "&amp;",
@@ -363,5 +757,16 @@
     addRareEvents();
     addSecretLinks();
     enhanceErrors();
+    addContinuity(memory);
+    addSeasonAndDates(memory);
+    addObjectConstellation(memory);
+    addWeatherWindow(memory);
+    addOldWebLayer(memory);
+    addSourceRelics();
+    addSearchAndKeySecrets();
+    addPatienceRewards(memory);
+    addRareSecondLayer(memory);
+    addPageSpecificSecrets(memory);
+    addInvisibleHoverSecrets();
   });
 }());
diff --git a/assets/styles/hidden-details.css b/assets/styles/hidden-details.css
index 4be504e..668ecd9 100644
--- a/assets/styles/hidden-details.css
+++ b/assets/styles/hidden-details.css
@@ -108,6 +108,143 @@
     margin-top: 0.8rem;
 }
 
+.hidden-object-rail {
+    position: fixed;
+    left: 50%;
+    bottom: 0.35rem;
+    display: flex;
+    gap: 0.3rem;
+    transform: translateX(-50%);
+    opacity: 0.18;
+    transition: opacity 180ms ease;
+    z-index: 20;
+}
+
+.hidden-object-rail:hover,
+.hidden-object-rail:focus-within {
+    opacity: 0.94;
+}
+
+.hidden-keepsake {
+    width: 1.35rem;
+    height: 1.35rem;
+    border: 1px solid color-mix(in oklab, var(--border) 72%, transparent);
+    border-radius: 50%;
+    background: color-mix(in oklab, var(--surface) 78%, transparent);
+    color: var(--muted);
+    font: 0.8rem/1 monospace;
+    cursor: pointer;
+}
+
+.hidden-keepsake:hover,
+.hidden-keepsake:focus-visible {
+    color: var(--fg);
+    background: var(--surface);
+}
+
+.hidden-weather-window {
+    position: fixed;
+    right: 0.7rem;
+    top: 7.5rem;
+    border: 1px solid var(--border);
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    background: color-mix(in oklab, var(--surface) 84%, transparent);
+    color: var(--muted);
+    font-size: 0.72rem;
+    padding: 0.25rem 0.45rem;
+    opacity: 0.24;
+    z-index: 20;
+}
+
+.hidden-weather-window:hover,
+.hidden-weather-window:focus-visible {
+    opacity: 1;
+    color: var(--fg);
+}
+
+.hidden-oldweb-stamp {
+    position: fixed;
+    right: 0.75rem;
+    bottom: 4.2rem;
+    max-width: 12rem;
+    padding: 0.25rem 0.4rem;
+    border: 1px dashed var(--border);
+    background: var(--surface);
+    color: var(--muted);
+    font: 0.72rem/1.2 "Times New Roman", serif;
+    text-align: center;
+    opacity: 0.34;
+    cursor: help;
+    z-index: 20;
+}
+
+.hidden-oldweb-stamp:hover {
+    opacity: 1;
+}
+
+.hidden-guestbook-line {
+    color: var(--muted);
+    font-size: 0.86rem;
+    font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
+    opacity: 0.78;
+}
+
+.hidden-hover-memory {
+    position: relative;
+}
+
+.hidden-hover-memory:hover::after {
+    content: attr(data-hidden-memory);
+    position: absolute;
+    left: 0;
+    top: 100%;
+    width: min(28rem, 80vw);
+    margin-top: 0.25rem;
+    padding: 0.55rem 0.65rem;
+    border: 1px solid var(--border);
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    background: var(--surface);
+    color: var(--muted);
+    font-size: 0.78rem;
+    font-family: 'Noto', system-ui, sans-serif;
+    font-weight: 400;
+    line-height: 1.35;
+    z-index: 30;
+    box-shadow: 0 12px 28px color-mix(in oklab, #000 12%, transparent);
+}
+
+body.hidden-home-takeover .db-root {
+    filter: saturate(0.9) contrast(1.03);
+}
+
+body.hidden-home-takeover .db-hero::before {
+    content: "under construction, emotionally";
+    display: inline-block;
+    margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
+    color: var(--muted);
+    font: 0.82rem "Times New Roman", serif;
+}
+
+.hidden-terminal {
+    font-family: ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Consolas, monospace;
+}
+
+.hidden-terminal input {
+    width: 100%;
+    box-sizing: border-box;
+    border: 1px solid var(--border);
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    background: var(--code-bg);
+    color: var(--fg);
+    padding: 0.65rem;
+    font: inherit;
+}
+
+.hidden-terminal-log {
+    min-height: 10rem;
+    white-space: pre-wrap;
+}
+
 .hidden-secret-link {
     position: absolute;
     width: 1px;
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+# Hidden Soul Bible
+
+## 1. Creative Pillars
+
+The hidden layer should feel like an emotional internet artifact: a personal site that has been lived in, repaired, renamed, backed up, forgotten, and returned to. It should reward attention without demanding completion.
+
+Primary emotional tones:
+
+- Cozy familial: kitchen lights, rice, mugs, family notes, practical tenderness.
+- Funny and self-aware: fake system warnings, old-web jokes, suspicious biscuit tins, web development folklore.
+- Reflective melancholy: unfinished letters, old usernames, returning to changed rooms.
+- Gentle mystery: Morrow, Nettle, Luma, Etta, Aunt Safiya, Nadir, the radio, the train platform.
+- Internet nostalgia: guestbooks, counters, dial-up usernames, under construction language, source-code relics.
+
+## 2. Recurring Cast
+
+- Morrow: a quiet figure tied to trains, platforms, lanterns, and unfinished apologies. Morrow represents return, hesitation, and the comfort of being expected.
+- Nettle: the archivist/moderator figure. Files impossible feelings under practical labels. Carries a clipboard and treats emotional continuity as infrastructure.
+- Luma: a lamp-associated presence who hums original tiny songs and notices margins. Luma represents small courage.
+- Etta: writer of the "Do Not Open" letter. Represents vulnerability hidden behind instructions and labels.
+- Aunt Safiya: warm, funny, practical family presence. Connected to recipes, suspicious biscuit tins, and household wisdom.
+- Nadir: backup-minded family historian. Explains technical care through domestic metaphors.
+- Old Guest 14 / guest_000 / sunnydialup88: old-web guestbook presences who blur past visitors, usernames, and memory.
+
+## 3. Symbolic Objects
+
+- Lamp: patience, late-night comfort, permission to rest.
+- Mug: continuity, small damage kept because it belongs.
+- Return ticket: coming back without needing to explain where from.
+- Radio: almost-heard family memory, voice messages, weather, original hums.
+- Pressed flower / marigold: seasonal return, promises that do not announce themselves.
+- Biscuit tin: running joke; allegedly contains tools, feelings, or neither.
+- Train platform: delay, return, growing older, being expected.
+- Cupboard: hidden terminal, family storage, recursive domestic mystery.
+
+## 4. Implemented Global Systems
+
+### Footer Notes
+
+- Trigger: every page load with a footer.
+- Content: rotates through 102 first-layer messages plus new second-layer continuity.
+- Frequency: always visible but subtle.
+- Lore: the footer is the house threshold.
+- UX: muted centered text; should feel like a small afterthought.
+
+### Homepage Greetings
+
+- Trigger: homepage load.
+- Content: randomized greeting; repeat visitors receive memory-aware copy.
+- Frequency: always on homepage.
+- Lore: the site recognizes returning visitors locally through `localStorage`.
+
+### Hover Whispers
+
+- Trigger: some paragraphs and headings gain tiny hover/click notes.
+- Content: short poems, quotes, and second-layer hidden memories.
+- Frequency: deterministic per page; not every paragraph.
+- UX: dotted question marks and heading hover captions.
+
+### Corner Object
+
+- Trigger: click the small fixed corner symbol.
+- Sequence: five escalating messages, then seven clicks opens `/play/left-behind.html`.
+- Lore: a loose panel in the page.
+
+### Keepsake Constellation
+
+- Trigger: click the five tiny bottom keepsakes: lamp, mug, ticket, radio, flower.
+- Payoff: after all are clicked, the site suggests searching `radio under stairs`.
+- Frequency: always present, low opacity.
+- Lore: collecting ordinary objects aligns the hidden family memory.
+
+### Weather Window
+
+- Trigger: after at least three visits, a subtle `window` button appears. User click requests browser location.
+- Content: weather-aware line through Open-Meteo if permission/network works; indoor-weather fallback otherwise.
+- Frequency: repeat visitors only.
+- UX: no automatic permission prompt.
+
+### Visit Milestones
+
+- Trigger: visit counts 2, 5, 9, 17, 31, 64.
+- Content: progressively warmer messages about being remembered.
+- Lore: the site stores visits locally, not identities.
+
+### Page Revisit Memory
+
+- Trigger: 3rd, 7th, and 12th visit to the same path.
+- Content: page-specific return messages.
+- Lore: individual rooms recognize repeated footsteps.
+
+### Seasonal Content
+
+- Trigger: low-probability seasonal toast on page load.
+- Content: winter blanket, spring pressed flower, summer fan/window, autumn leaf-links.
+- Frequency: 18% chance.
+
+### Date Events
+
+- Site birthday: May 9. Message about imaginary candles.
+- Visitor anniversary: same month/day as first stored visit.
+- Minute thirteen: radio throat-clearing message.
+
+### Night Messages
+
+- Trigger: 22:00-04:59 local browser time.
+- Content: gentle late-night comfort.
+- Visual: soft bottom glow.
+
+### Search Secrets
+
+- `morrow`: lantern/lake/apology.
+- `nettle`: clipboard/cupboard/semicolon.
+- `home`: warm window/spare key.
+- `kitchen light`: opens `/play/kitchen-light.html`.
+- `radio under stairs`: opens `/play/radio-room.html`.
+- `guestbook 1999`: opens `/play/guestbook-1999.html`.
+- `do not open`: opens `/play/do-not-open.html`.
+- `cassette`: opens `/play/cassette-log.html`.
+- `return ticket`: opens `/play/train-platform.html`.
+- `unfinished letter`: opens `/play/forgotten-draft.html`.
+- `burnt sugar`: opens `/play/corrupted-recipe.html`.
+- `cupboard`: opens `/play/terminal-cupboard.html`.
+- `patience`: opens `/play/patience-game.html`.
+- `marigold`, `luma`, `nadir`: lore toasts.
+
+### Typed Phrase Secrets
+
+- `remember`: continuity toast.
+- `dream`: opens Dream Corridor.
+- `leave the light on`: opens Kitchen Light.
+- `oldweb`: old layout joke.
+- `safiya`: biscuit tin joke.
+- `luma`: plays a tiny original tone sequence.
+
+### Rare Events
+
+- First layer: rare page breeze and biscuit event.
+- Second layer:
+  - 0.6% rare homepage old-web takeover.
+  - 0.2% cassette asks permission.
+  - 0.4% recurring dream line.
+  - 0.8% cryptic comforting warning.
+- Rule: rare events should delight, not block navigation.
+
+### Patience Rewards
+
+- Trigger: 90 seconds of inactivity after repeat visits.
+- Content: quiet no-achievement reward.
+- Lore: patience and kindness count even when not announced.
+
+### Source Relics and Alt Text
+
+- Trigger: DOM load.
+- Behavior: adds a source-code comment and fills empty image alt text with scrapbook-like hidden descriptions.
+- Purpose: secrets inside source and accessibility-friendly hidden storytelling.
+
+### Audio
+
+- Trigger: user action only, never autoplay.
+- Content: short original Web Audio tone sequence associated with Luma/cassettes.
+- Note: no copyrighted lyrics or melodies.
+
+## 5. Implemented Secret Pages
+
+### `/play/left-behind.html`
+
+- Trigger: seven clicks on corner object.
+- Tone: familial, emotional.
+- Lore: blue bowl, soup memory, Morrow at 2:13.
+
+### `/play/dream-corridor.html`
+
+- Trigger: logo taps or typed `dream`.
+- Tone: surreal, safe.
+- Lore: three shy doors, Nettle margin note.
+
+### `/play/kitchen-light.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `kitchen light` or phrase `leave the light on`.
+- Tone: late-night comfort.
+- Lore: rice in pot, towel on chair, light asks no questions.
+
+### `/play/radio-room.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `radio under stairs`; keepsake constellation hints it.
+- Tone: nostalgic audio memory.
+- Lore: Nadir backups, Luma humming, no autoplay manners.
+
+### `/play/guestbook-1999.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `guestbook 1999`.
+- Tone: old-web funny/melancholy.
+- Lore: fake users are recurring ghosts of the old internet.
+
+### `/play/do-not-open.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `do not open`.
+- Tone: emotionally meaningful warning.
+- Lore: Etta wanted to be found carefully.
+
+### `/play/cassette-log.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `cassette`.
+- Tone: archive/audio.
+- Interaction: buttons reveal cassette transcript toasts and play original tones.
+
+### `/play/train-platform.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `return ticket`.
+- Tone: patient return.
+- Lore: platform 3, Morrow, destinations as feelings.
+
+### `/play/forgotten-draft.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `unfinished letter`.
+- Tone: unsent vulnerability.
+- Lore: website as a way to recover rooms in pieces.
+
+### `/play/corrupted-recipe.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `burnt sugar`.
+- Tone: funny family warmth.
+- Lore: recipe corrupted into folklore.
+
+### `/play/terminal-cupboard.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `cupboard`.
+- Tone: hidden terminal, domestic mystery.
+- Commands: `help`, `listen`, `inventory`, `tea`, `open`, `remember`, `exit`.
+
+### `/play/patience-game.html`
+
+- Trigger: search `patience`.
+- Tone: quiet game.
+- Interaction: wait. Text changes at 30, 90, and 180 seconds.
+
+## 6. Emotional Tone Categories
+
+- Comfort: Kitchen Light, night messages, visitor milestones, patience rewards.
+- Humor: biscuit tin, fake users, old-web jokes, fake errors.
+- Melancholy: Forgotten Draft, train platform, cassettes, old usernames.
+- Mystery: Dream Corridor, radio, cupboard, rare dreams.
+- Familial warmth: corrupted recipe, Aunt Safiya, Nadir, blue bowl.
+- Meta/web: source relics, under construction takeover, cache warnings.
+
+## 7. Page/Section Categories
+
+- Global: footer notes, toasts, hover whispers, keepsakes, weather window, source comments.
+- Homepage: greetings, rare old-web takeover, logo taps.
+- Search/nav: keyword portals.
+- Play wing: secret rooms and tiny games.
+- Comments: fake guestbook line when comments exist.
+- Images/source: hidden alt text and source-code comment.
+
+## 8. UI/UX Notes
+
+- Hidden UI stays low opacity until hovered/focused.
+- No feature should obscure reading for long.
+- Audio requires explicit action.
+- Weather requests require explicit click and have graceful fallback.
+- Secret pages are buildable but marked `#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t` so they do not appear in index pages.
+- Rewards are intentionally non-competitive; no public checklist.
+
+## 9. Audio/Visual Suggestions
+
+- Add tiny original ambient loops only after explicit button press.
+- Use cassette hiss, lamp hum, rain-on-window synthesis, and soft train-platform chimes.
+- Consider small generated bitmap textures: paper receipt, cassette label, pressed flower, old guestbook banner.
+- Avoid horror stingers; even corrupted pages should be emotionally safe.
+
+## 10. Long-Term Evolution
+
+- Monthly train destination changes.
+- Seasonal recipe variants.
+- Yearly visitor anniversary letters.
+- A slow Luma arc where the lamp becomes less shy after enough patient moments.
+- Nettle's filing labels can become warmer over time.
+- Morrow's return ticket can gain stamps after visits to secret rooms.
+- Guestbook users can post new fake entries on real calendar dates.
+
+## 11. Future Expansion Ideas
+
+- Add a real local-only guestbook draft pad that stores messages in `localStorage`.
+- Add a hidden "attic" page unlocked after visiting all secret rooms.
+- Add generated cassette-label images for each log.
+- Add a no-score cooking memory game using family recipe fragments.
+- Add an RSS-feed-only hidden note.
+- Add source-map comments or HTML comments with letter fragments.
+- Add a "kindness route" where closing pages gently or waiting unlocks softer endings.
+
+## 12. Maintaining Mystery
+
+- Do not explain all triggers in the public UI.
+- Keep most secrets optional and small.
+- Never punish users for missing content.
+- Use recurrence, not randomness alone: objects and characters should reappear with altered context.
+- Make clues emotionally legible, not puzzle-hostile.
+- Avoid completion language. The site is a place, not a checklist.
+
+## 13. Implementation Notes
+
+- Current state is client-side only through `localStorage` key `zxh_hidden_details_v1`.
+- Secret routes are static Org pages.
+- `#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t` excludes pages from sitemap/recently-updated via `lisp/sitemaps.el` and `lisp/recently-updated.el`.
+- Add backend later only if real guestbook/comment persistence is desired.
+- Keep hidden scripts dependency-free.
+
+## 14. Canon Rule
+
+The hidden soul should always imply: somebody lived here, somebody cared enough to label the drawer badly, and the visitor is welcome without needing to prove they found everything.
+
+## 15. Second-Layer Text Registry
+
+These are the newly added second-layer strings. The first-layer registry remains in `assets/scripts/hidden-details.js` as the original 102-detail foundation.
+
+### Quotes
+
+- The archive does not keep score. It keeps chairs.
+- Some families pass down recipes. This one also passes down tabs left open for later.
+- A page can be a room if enough people arrive softly.
+- The oldest link on the site still expects a hand cursor.
+- If a memory changes, it may be trying to fit through a smaller door.
+- The guestbook is not empty. It is holding its breath between signatures.
+- Every backup is a small superstition against forgetting.
+- Somewhere in the CSS, a lamp is deciding whether to stay on.
+- The radio under the stairs only plays songs it has already missed.
+- A train can leave a station and still remain in the family story.
+- Kindness is the only password the house accepts without checking case.
+- The website learned your pace and stopped rushing the hallway.
+- A draft is just a letter still gathering courage.
+- The cursor is a visitor. The margin is a host.
+- If you hover long enough, even a heading may remember being handwritten.
+- The old forum banner says: welcome back, even if you are new.
+- Not all broken pages need repair. Some need a name.
+- The site keeps its mysteries low to the ground, where tired people can reach them.
+- A year is a folder that keeps renaming itself.
+- Some evenings are survived by the exact right mug.
+
+### Poems
+
+- A train in the rain / waits beside an empty platform / so memory can board.
+- Grandma's radio / tuned between two stations / found us anyway.
+- A flower pressed flat / still teaches the book / how spring once leaned.
+- The lamp stayed awake / not because it was brave / but because someone might need it.
+- Old usernames fade / but the welcome thread remains / warm at the top.
+- I found a draft / with no ending / and felt less alone.
+- The house at midnight / is mostly refrigerator hum / and unsent kindness.
+- A calendar page / falls without bitterness / into tomorrow's hands.
+- There is a road home / made entirely of small tabs / you meant to close.
+- A cassette clicks / and the room becomes younger / for one more minute.
+
+### Fake Conversations
+
+- Nettle: The ticket drawer is humming again. Morrow: That is normal. It hums when someone is almost ready.
+- Aunt Safiya: Who put the screwdriver in the biscuit tin? Nadir: A person with vision and no labelling discipline.
+- Morrow: The lamp keeps following the visitor. Etta: Good. Lamps should have hobbies.
+- Old Guest 14: is this page still alive? Webmaster: yes, but quietly, please. the baby is asleep.
+- Nettle: Filed under: feelings disguised as infrastructure. Morrow: Approved without changes.
+- Luma: The radio said my name. Aunt Safiya: Then say salaam back. Manners matter.
+- Nadir: The server made soup noises. Etta: That means the deployment is nearly done.
+- Morrow: I found a page that says do not open. Nettle: That usually means open gently.
+
+### Journal Fragments
+
+- Journal scrap, 2006: We changed the wallpaper and everyone pretended it was not emotional.
+- Journal scrap, 2011: The old router blinked like it was trying to stay in the conversation.
+- Journal scrap, 2018: I learned that homesickness can happen inside your own house.
+- Journal scrap, 2024: Somebody laughed in the kitchen and the whole week became easier.
+- Journal scrap, undated: The marigolds came back where nobody planted them.
+- Journal scrap, undated: We kept the cracked mug because it knew too much.
+- Journal scrap, winter: I saved a voicemail just to remember the background noise.
+- Journal scrap, summer: The fan turned all afternoon and made the curtains look like boats.
+
+### Comforting Warnings
+
+- COMFORT WARNING: this page may contain traces of old carpet, warm rice, and unfinished errands.
+- SOFT ERROR: the archive attempted to be impressive and became sincere instead.
+- NOTICE: do not stack heavy feelings on the top shelf.
+- LEGACY WARNING: this layout remembers 800x600 and asks you to be respectful.
+- SYSTEM MESSAGE: no achievement unlocked. You were kind anyway.
+- CACHE NOTE: the page kept a copy of the good part.
+- RECOVERY MODE: make tea, rename file, try again.
+- PERMISSION DENIED: the sadness may enter, but it must wipe its feet.
+
+### Recurring Dreams
+
+- Dream 01: a train full of empty mugs waited at a station called Later.
+- Dream 02: the search box became a letterbox and returned every question with a family recipe.
+- Dream 03: a radio under the stairs played tomorrow's weather in a grandparent's voice.
+- Dream 04: the old homepage had a porch, and every link was a moth-wing-soft knock.
+- Dream 05: someone had folded the sitemap into a paper flower and left it in a browser tab.
+
+### Cassette Logs
+
+- CASSETTE A / side 1: You can hear plates, rain, and someone saying, no, leave the light on.
+- CASSETTE A / side 2: Three seconds of silence, then laughter too close to the microphone.
+- CASSETTE B / side 1: Nadir explains backups to a child using rice grains and a spoon.
+- CASSETTE C / side 2: A song with no words, hummed badly, loved completely.
+- CASSETTE D / side ?: The tape label only says for when the house feels far away.
+
+### Fake Users
+
+- sunnydialup88: first!!!! but emotionally
+- auntie-admin: please stop uploading files named newnewnewfinal
+- railway_morrow: platform 3 smells like rain today
+- nettle_mod: moved thread from Bugs to Feelings
+- luma-lamp: does anyone else hear the margins singing
+- guest_000: I signed this once and then grew up
+
+### Rare Homepage Takeovers
+
+- For one rare minute, the homepage believes it is an old family desktop.
+- The dashboard has become a late-night noticeboard with one pin missing.
+- The homepage found its old forum skin in a drawer and is trying it on.
+
+### Seasonal Lines
+
+- Winter: The archive put an extra blanket on the footer.
+- Spring: A pressed flower appeared between two cached pages.
+- Summer: The page opened a window and let the fan turn the silence.
+- Autumn: The old links sound like leaves when the cursor passes.
+
+### Secret Room Search Terms
+
+- `radio under stairs` -> Radio Room.
+- `guestbook 1999` -> Guestbook 1999.
+- `do not open` -> Do Not Open.
+- `cassette` -> Cassette Log.
+- `return ticket` -> Train Platform.
+- `unfinished letter` -> Forgotten Draft.
+- `burnt sugar` -> Corrupted Recipe.
+- `cupboard` -> Terminal Cupboard.
+- `patience` -> Patience Game.
+
+## 16. Maintenance Checklist
+
+- When adding a new hidden page, include `#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t`.
+- Add the route to the invisible link registry only if accidental discovery is acceptable.
+- Add one lore connection, one emotional reason, and one non-obvious trigger.
+- Keep text short in toasts; move longer writing into hidden rooms.
+- Prefer local state and static pages. Add backend persistence only for explicitly public features.
+- Rebuild with `emacs -Q --script build-site.el`.
+- Verify secret pages build and do not appear in `sitemap.org` or `recently-updated.org`.
diff --git a/play/cassette-log.org b/play/cassette-log.org
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+#+TITLE: Cassette Log
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Audio shelf</p>
+      <h1>Cassette Log</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">Transcripts from tapes with labels in three different handwritings.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <button class="play-primary" type="button" data-cassette="a">Play A</button>
+      <button class="play-primary" type="button" data-cassette="b">Play B</button>
+      <button class="play-primary" type="button" data-cassette="c">Play C</button>
+      <p>The buttons play tiny original tones and reveal transcripts. Nothing starts without being asked.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/corrupted-recipe.org b/play/corrupted-recipe.org
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+++ b/play/corrupted-recipe.org
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+#+TITLE: Corrupted Recipe
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Recovered file</p>
+      <h1>Corrupted Recipe</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">The ingredients survived. The measurements became folklore.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <p>1 onion, finely remembered</p>
+      <p>2 cups rice, or enough for whoever says they are not hungry</p>
+      <p>burnt sugar until the kitchen smells like almost</p>
+      <p>[DATA LOST] but Aunt Safiya says add patience here</p>
+      <p>Serve with the story about the train, but skip the sad part unless someone asks.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/do-not-open.org b/play/do-not-open.org
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+++ b/play/do-not-open.org
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+#+TITLE: Do Not Open
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Envelope</p>
+      <h1>Do Not Open</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">The instruction was written by someone who hoped you would be careful, not obedient.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <p>Dear whoever needed a door,</p>
+      <p>I wrote "do not open" because I was embarrassed by how much I wanted to be found.</p>
+      <p>If you are here, please take the small ordinary blessing: may the next room be kinder than the last one.</p>
+      <p>- Etta</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/forgotten-draft.org b/play/forgotten-draft.org
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+++ b/play/forgotten-draft.org
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+#+TITLE: Forgotten Draft
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Unsent</p>
+      <h1>Forgotten Draft</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">A letter that never became brave enough to be email.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <p>I keep meaning to say that the house was not the same after everyone stopped being in the same room at once.</p>
+      <p>But then someone sends a photo of dinner, or a broken chair, or a sky that looks like 2007, and the room comes back in pieces.</p>
+      <p>I suppose this is what the website is for.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/guestbook-1999.org b/play/guestbook-1999.org
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+++ b/play/guestbook-1999.org
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+#+TITLE: Guestbook 1999
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Old web room</p>
+      <h1>Guestbook 1999</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">Signatures from usernames that may never have existed.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <p><strong>sunnydialup88:</strong> first!!!! but emotionally</p>
+      <p><strong>auntie-admin:</strong> stop making the background tiled unless you mean it.</p>
+      <p><strong>guest_000:</strong> I was here once, then became older, then came back.</p>
+      <p><strong>nettle_mod:</strong> thread moved from Bugs to Feelings.</p>
+      <p><strong>webmaster:</strong> if the counter breaks, count kindness manually.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/patience-game.org b/play/patience-game.org
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+++ b/play/patience-game.org
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+#+TITLE: Patience Game
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Tiny game</p>
+      <h1>Patience Game</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">The only move is to stay a little while.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <p data-patience-target>The lamp is on. Nothing else is required.</p>
+      <p><span data-patience-count>0</span> seconds kept company.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/radio-room.org b/play/radio-room.org
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+++ b/play/radio-room.org
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#+TITLE: Radio Room
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Unlisted room</p>
+      <h1>Radio Room</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">A room under the stairs where every station is almost home.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <p class="play-console__eyebrow">Tuning log</p>
+      <h2>Between stations</h2>
+      <p>89.1: rain on the kitchen roof.</p>
+      <p>91.4: Nadir saying backups are just promises with timestamps.</p>
+      <p>99.9: Luma humming an original song about lamps, trains, and coming back slowly.</p>
+      <p>The dial is warm. It does not play automatically because even ghosts should ask permission.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/terminal-cupboard.org b/play/terminal-cupboard.org
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/play/terminal-cupboard.org
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#+TITLE: Terminal Cupboard
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Hidden terminal</p>
+      <h1>Terminal Cupboard</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">A command line behind the jars.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console hidden-terminal">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <div class="hidden-terminal-log" data-cupboard-log><p>cupboard v0.9. Type help.</p></div>
+      <input data-cupboard-input type="text" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" aria-label="Cupboard command" />
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT
diff --git a/play/train-platform.org b/play/train-platform.org
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index 0000000..e12866d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/play/train-platform.org
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#+TITLE: Train Platform
+#+OPTIONS: num:nil title:nil toc:nil
+#+NO_SIDENOTES: t
+#+HIDDEN_PAGE: t
+#+DATE: <2026-05-09 Sat>
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<main class="play-root">
+  <section class="play-hero">
+    <div>
+      <p class="play-kicker">Platform 3</p>
+      <h1>Train Platform</h1>
+      <p class="play-lede">The departure board changes every month, but every destination is a feeling.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+  <section class="play-console">
+    <div class="play-console__screen">
+      <p>23:13 - Later - delayed by tenderness</p>
+      <p>00:04 - Home - expected when ready</p>
+      <p>06:30 - The Long Way - boarding quietly</p>
+      <p>Morrow is on the bench with a return ticket he refuses to explain.</p>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</main>
+#+END_EXPORT