You find yourself looking down at a journal with some writing in it. A little note to the side reads as follows:

Hello, and welcome to my public journal. This is where you can leave notes for me that I can look at later. Thank you for your consideration, and I hope you are enjoying the webpage.

If you'd like, there is a pen and some ink for you to leave a note. Otherwise, feel free to look at the notes other people made below, or look at Jesse's Journal, which is sitting right next to this one and has his latest thoughts in it.
There are also the other rooms that you can get to from the Sitting Room. There's the doorways which lead to the Gallery, the Library, and the Entertainment Room. Or else you can take the spiral staircase up to the Observatory or the master staircase down to the Main Room of The Mansion.

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