I've sent an updated copy of Golem's Gauntlet to the webmaster, so hopefully it should be uploaded soon. I'm also going to revamp Gem Runner, as I was ill at the time and didn't do it justice.
Short and easy (unless there are some other endings or secrets I don't know about). Honestly I can't really rate this one well at all. I like unusual settings but there's not really much original or memorable in this one. Sorry to be a downer.
Just found this old deleted reference that I don't think I've ver posted before:
Just as you are stepping over to the window a figure you hadn't noticed before walks out from the shadows nearby. From the neck down she looks like a young well-dressed woman, at least as far as you can tell in this gloom. From above the neck she is an atrocity. Her entire face has been cut off, right down to the muscle and bone. Yet, as far as you can tell she still smiles at you, sending trickles of blood pouring down her chin onto her dress. Taking a step back so as to not be too close to this thing, she speaks to you.
'Before all this,' she points at her ruined face, 'I used to be quite beautiful, but then I glimpsed what lies waiting beyond it and realised my own imperfections.' She brings out a concealed dagger, 'So I did this to myself.' The dagger is still dripping blood.
With tears in your eyes you ask her what could make her do such a thing to herself.
She smiles again as more blood drips from her face and falls onto her shoes. Indeed, for the first time you realise just how bloody she is. "The Gate," she says simply. Then she raises the dagger and slashes at her neck before you can stop her. Her body slumps to the ground at peace at last.
What lies waiting beyond? She's actually looked through the Gate itself?