[Sphinx] - Further

Why am I here?

"An interesting question. Not in the philosophical sense, that is! More pompous fools than I have pondered that one quite enough, so to consider in the purely here-and-now..."
You blink owlishly all the way through the sudden spiel, "-f course I had up until this moment assumed you like all the idiotic challengers before you were on your way to meet the Oracle. It now seems to me at once clear that you are doing nothing of the sort, and are in fact just lost. Or perhaps not very bright."

Ask why his name is so well known that I do not

"An honest man I feel I am, although much reduced as of late."

Do you know whats up with those 3 weird doors back there?

There's a sort of silence that a person who wasnt John Rodriguez might read into, and the person says that it was a death puzzle that you apparently just wandered through without noticing. You sniff sort of half-heartedly, considering whether to cry again, but manage to pull through.

"If you don't have much more to say for yourself, sad fellow, then you ought to get moving. It's cold out, after all, and everyone knows that there's no turning back on the Oracle's path. Admittedly that's why I'm still here, since such a slavish convention begs to be mocked, but you hardly seem cut out for such ethical choices."
A plug is put into the hole in the barrel from the inside and the voice doesn't say anything more.