8 October 2006, 4.22 pm gametime, 2.45 pm my time. The hospital is full of ‘Save our Hospital’ stickers. Blood everywhere. Then, I reencounter CLOUDYSUNNY, whom I had met earlier in the game, and NUMBERICS, whom I cannot remember meeting before. CLOUDYSUNNY is almost dead. He is crying for help. I try to get him to come out of the hospital to Kath’s Café so I can get him a cup of tea, but he appears not to follow me.

9 October 2006 (I cannot recall the precise time I rarived at this destination). I arrive at the airport and have an uncanny sense of de-ja-vu. It was, after all, less than two weeks ago that I was waiting here for my flight to Berlin. My aunt was still alive then. I was less exhausted. I was full of expectations. I did not know what any of this would feel like. I even remember noticing the flight to Hamburg and thinking that I’d take it next February to visit her for her special birthday. I am suddenly overwhelmed again, feeling the loss of people who have always been part of my life. The game is a welcome distraction. I arrive at the hospital. There’s a guitar here, as well as some sick dogs and a many defibrillators. I remember that CLOUDYSUNNY was in trouble here yesterday. I had suggested he came with me for a cup of tea, but then lost him on my way. I pick up a defibrillator for him and try to find him. I give him mine. He obviously has no idea how to find a defibrillator and I drop mine so he can pick it up. I have to explain this to him. He calls me an angel. Somehow I feel good about this. HERBERT also wants a defibrillator – surely he can share one with CLOUDYSUNNY. Apparently HERBERT has some sick friends at the Rec. I feel sorry for the sick dogs though, and decide that first I must take one to the Blue Cross. I am hungry and need to eat something. The food available at the airport reminds me of the food in the game.

16 October 2006, 12.10 pm gametime, 11.32 my time. I arrive at the hospital. There is no one here.

18 October 2006, 2.54 am game time, 6.22 pm my time. The new doc, alias HASSAN, is diagnosing PAUL with pre-traumatic stress disorder and recommends the he gets a sandwich at the 24 hour garage. CLOUDYSUNNY has also seen him and is now on his way to the bins in the hope to get an unemployment check. I wait for my turn, wondering how he’ll treat my poor face. Finally the new doc, HASSAN, has a slot for me. He wonders whether a bear inflicted my injuries. This sounds very exciting and I am too embarrassed to admit that they were inflicted by a broom I myself picked up, so I make up this story about a white unicorn with a golden horn which sends BERLIN too sleep. HASSAN then goes all quiet. BERLIN points out that my make-up is very irritating. This confuses the doc who now thinks I suffer from some strange skin allergy. I, of course, have no make-up, just the awful injuries inflicted by the broom. Then the game goes quiet. Perhaps I have sent both HASSAN and BERLIN to sleep again.

19 October 2006 3.39 am game time, 3.49 pm my time. I have my saveloy and feel very fine indeed. I can see that CLOUDYSUNNY wants BERLIN to use the defibrillator on them. Then CLOUDYSUNNY reveals to be poor but not dying and to be at Schlingensief’s Kaprow City.

20 October 2006 4.11 am game time, 10.59 am my time. BERLIN, MOMO, BRILLER are here. There are also some defibrillators. I am told to go and help MOO, so I decide to get some scampi for all.

20 October 2006, 4.41 game time, 4.15 my time. I head back to the hospital. SUPER GIRL and RICHARD are here.

21 October 2006, 5.12 am game time, 12.45 pm my time. CLOUDYSUNNY is happy about my schrimps which I share out. Then HASSAN makes a new appearance. He has had a long shift and is thinking to step out for a walk. We end up at Kath’s Café where my game started and we first met.