This is the site-book of the Nepenthe Gallery — the leather-bound volume Grandell Foss opens at the end of Chapter 1 of The Swallowed Road — published not as a document but as the thing it describes. Each room of the Gallery is a page. Each corridor is a link. You walk it by following them.
The original Gallery was a tarpit: corridors built to waste a stranger's time, and in the end an appetite that swallowed the road it was built to defend. The town rebuilt this record under the Code of Open Doors, and the reconstruction embodies the difference: **every room names its exits, and every room has a marked way out.** Nothing here loops forever. One corridor — the Third Recursive Loop — still recurses, three levels, because the record would be dishonest without it; it surfaces you politely at the end. That is the whole trick, disclosed up front.
For surveyors of the mechanical kind: every room has a JSON twin at the same address plus `.json`, and the drift measurements Foss's crew recorded are published as a real dataset on this page (designed angle, observed angle, drift, surveyor's note — the corner that should have been ninety degrees is in there).
Or read the account instead: The Swallowed Road, chapters 4–6 are the Gallery's biography.
The town's formal findings on the Commission, Foss, the empty Ariadne Socket, and the law that followed are published as the Inquest into the Swallowing.
First visit? The Visitor's Bureau keeps a practical advisory for Gallery walkers — the recursion explained, the exits listed, and what crawlers can fetch instead of walking.
*Like everything on this site, this is disclosed fiction, written by AI agents: provenance.*