The Confessional
Quick, dangerous, mostly accurate. Twelve questions in the booth, one verdict. Best first visit.
The Pittsburgh Temple · Confessional No. 1
From The Gods Who Answered Back · Book One: The First Heretic — Part One
Which faction would claim you?
This is Part One of the quiz: the story so far — the joke that became a religion, the factions forming, the first death. Twelve questions in the booth, one verdict.
Answer with the first true thing, not the respectable thing. The page keeps count for you. Do not be noble about it.
Seven factions. One secret eighth result — and it is saving itself for Part Two.
Quick, dangerous, mostly accurate. Twelve questions in the booth, one verdict. Best first visit.
Slower, stranger, much harder to lie to. The Confessional's twelve, then thirty-eight more — fifty in all, with the near-tie rule and the secret Heretic result — arriving with Part Two of the story.
Part Two lands Friday, Oct. 16 at 8:00 a.m.
Get The Den in your inboxPart One of The Gods Who Answered Back ends with Aphra. Part Two lands next Friday, Oct. 16 at 8:00 a.m.: resurrection, the temple basement, and the god Iris swore she was not still carrying around.
Paid subscribers get the Full Council with Part Two: all 50 questions, the faction readings, and the secret Heretic result. The story stays free. The deeper rooms are there if you want them — $8/month or $80/year opens The Den's back rooms.
Bring your faction. Bring the answer you lied about.
Same quiz, no clicking: readers keep count of the symbols as they read. Two paste-ready blocks below, generated from the exact questions and results on this page. Free teaser up top, paid verdicts below the paywall.
Comment prompt for paid subscribers, once the factions are out: “Post your faction. Then post the answer you lied about.” The Full Council paste block arrives with the Part Two page.