Audiologue, entry number two. Okay, I think I got that thing off
my trip. Psychopomps are so annoying. I've just got to find whiskey Jack.
And no, whiskey Jack was the one who got me into this mess
in the first place. He led me right into the trap that killed me.
Some family friend he turned out to be family. That's it. Why
didn't I think of this sooner? Oh my gosh, I'm so stupid.
I need to find my grandfather. He'll know what to do. So if
I were Grandpa, where would I be? Mhmm. Some ghosts hang around
the place where they died, right, That's probably where I should start.
Maybe I can find some clues. Okay, now, let me see if
I can get there using this fold step. I'm in a library, no
grocery store? Is is that Russia? Never mind? Let me try again.
Some kids room. Let me get out of here before I give them
the nightmares? Is this a prison? No? Thank you? And hospital?
Well, I hope that poor nurse can't see me. I am so
so sorry. Thank you for your service. This This is definitely a basement
and I'm not alone. Oh my gosh, that was horrifying. If I
still had a body, I would be throwing up right now. Wait where
am I? Is this Thailand? Okay? All the signs here are written
in English. Looks like I'm at some kind of construction site. Oh it's
so confusing. Maybe if I try thinking about where I want to go before
fold stepping. All right, Grandpa died in a car accident off of Highway
one, and that's the kangaroo I'm in Australia. No what, I'm going
to keep trying and I'll start recording again when I get there Highway one.
Finally, that only took forty two hundred and thirties. It's more jumps to
figure out. I wasn't off face with a whole think of where you want
to go idea. I just took the wrong fold step. Turns out one
of the fold steps brings you to where you're thinking, and another one takes
you to the opposite of where you're thinking. Still not entirely sure what the
other fold steps do, but that's not important. Now I'm finally here and
my grandfather father is nowhere to be found. But wait, he didn't die
in the spot, right, He was clipped by a semi around here spun
over across that railing there and hit this tree here. Hmm, nobody here.
Wait did he die in the car or on the way to the hospital.
I can't remember the closest hospital from here. They would have taken him
in this direction. Maybe I should just follow the road until I find him.
Oh hey, I see someone there. There's a spirit there. Hello,
Let me get closer. They might not be able to hear me.
Oh wait, that doesn't look like Grandpa. Too short and the hair's too
long. But maybe they've seen him. Excuse me, hello, Hello,
They didn't even flinch. Maybe they can't hear at all. I'll have to
get close enough to wave with them, and then okay, almost there.
Oh oh, that is not a person. That is some kind of loop,
an echo of a traumatic event. I'm just going to cross to the
other side of the highway. That was incredibly disturbing, like reality itself was
having a hallucination. This might take a while, so I'll take a break
from recording until I found him. I've made it all the way to the
hospital, but no dice even searched through all the rooms and all the levels.
Plenty of other spirits here, but none of them remembered him by name.
One of the other spirits gave me a good idea, though, so
I'm going to try that next, right after I fixed some of the computer
issues that have plagued the patients and medical staff. Here, let's see.
Oh, this person in charge is shortsighted, greedy and incompetent. Surprise price,
Okay, an email here, a decimal point there, These data packets
go here, and this schedule needs to be fixed there much better. Okay,
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