Thanks! The game here is written in Inform7, and it was so difficult to make progress that it took me three years on and off to finish the game. So if you do it that way, beware :)

Abridged story: https://github.com/statico/the-archive-public/blob/master/Th...

Backend server: https://github.com/statico/glulxe-httpd

Ah, perhaps this is why I periodically got no responses, and eventually was reset out of the game. I was deep down!