you can safely exit the gardens by clicking back to home in the current update! its still a little funky, but the issue seems to be squarely from trying to exit to the garden from the plot.
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Thanks for the heads up! The form of the story has changed a lot since this version, so I don't know if the relevant piece of code is still in there, but this is a good reminder that I should probably get the new version uploaded sometime. Honestly didn't really expect anyone to ever come across this, but if people browse around having something more recent up would still be good.