29 September 7am gametime (12pm my time) While I have lunch at the beautiful Gendarmenmarkt, I arrive at the Locarno which is filthy at daytime. There is no one there. I leave immediately but must come back.

12 October 2006. 8.42 pm gametime, 5.18 my time. I decide to go to the Locarno, but realise it’s still shut. In the meantime I arrive at the café, open my mail – Steve Kurtz has sent a lovely note, as has Lynn Hershman, and I get to hear from Nick Kaye that everything is fine in Barcelona and our RA in Barcelona can start working on our new project over there which, I think now, will probably take up most of my time in future months. I realise that I have entered a new phase of the game.

13 October 2006, 9.05 pm gametime, 11.18 am my time. I am at the Locarno. While I am at my aunt's, sorting more papers, books, clothes, photographs, diaries, following traces, pursuing the life of a person who, I can see now, has not thrown anything (relevant or irrelevent) away for the last couple of years, I reach the Locarno, full of expectations of what might be happening here tonight. I am told that I am carrying a drum kit though I am also told that I need to find a drum kit. Since in my mission I was informed that I could play the drum (and, as some of you may recall, I’ve been wanting to play the drum since the beginning of this game), I decide that this will be the moment, at last, in which I will have my fifteen minutes of glory. So I play my drum kit, full of trepidation about what might happen. Instead, I am told that ‘I can’t even rock a baby.’ I am also still feeling peaky.

14 October 2006 (I cannot remember the precise time I arrived in this location) I am back at the Locarno, thinking that finally I can perhaps play my drum kit. It goes terribly again. Suddenly I have company. SUPER GIRL, SCOOBY, BERLIN and BARNEY (at last!) are here. SCOOBY has just whacked BARNEY on the head with something and he is not feeling to good. There is a wristband here, but I’m still too suspicious to wear it. SCOOBY, who calls me Marge and makes me smile, is looking for a drum kit and so I drop mine so he can use it.

15 October 2006, 11.14 pm gametime, 12.19 am my time. I’ve arrived at the Locarno. There are some billiard clues here. BERLIN is wondering whether to leave. SCOOBY is worried about BARNEY and we all decide that we need to find BARNEY first. SCOOBY ‘knows’ that BARNEY has collapsed near Kath’s Café and suggests we all go for help. I decide the best thing for me to do is to get BARNEY a saveloy.

16 October 2006, 12.25 pm game time, 1.53 my time. I arrive at the Locarno which, allegedly, is packed with heaving bodies. ANGRY JOE is the only one who is here and there are many drum kits, though no evidence of players activity. I look for HASSAN but he is not here.

16 October 2006, 12.50 pm game time, 5.58 my time. I’m back at the Locarno. MARTIN is here, but silent, as usual.