I Still Need to Know...

...where to go.

Where am I going? What am I doing? Following a trail of breadcrumbs left by a sociopath is like something out of a comic book. I feel like going "Holy smokes, Batman! The explosion happened at sea - a C! For Catwoman! Catwoman must be behind this!"

I'm well rested now, but I've got nowhere to go. I keep looking through Karen's diary. Looking at that stupid coded message for me. Is this whole thing a fake? Why go to all that trouble? Why do this at all?

I want to throw this book back into the lake. I want to forget about the Jester and the Misfits and the Man in the Seersucker Suit and the Wooden Girl. But I can't. Because Derek is alive somewhere and I'm going to find him.

Now where should I go next?

Karen's Diary

I'm still in the motel that went to yesterday. I don't want to stay in one place, but I don't want to go in the wrong direction.

As for the diary...well, I have no idea if this thing is real or if it's just the Jester messing with me. Anyway, I took pictures of the rest of the diary and I will now post them. The left-side pages have pictures on them and the right-side pages have words, but I'm posting them the other way around, since the pictures refer to the words. Because I'm OCD like that.

And that's it. That's the end of the diary - the rest of the pages are blank. Again, don't know if this thing is real or not, but in either case, it's fairly disturbing.

The Book in the Boat

So I found a place that rented boats and was open on Sunday. They charged me $250 for a boat and oars.

There was only one problem: I had never gone boating before. And I had very little time to find out how to boat. So I went out in the boat and traveled in circles for twenty minutes before I stopped, went back to the boat place and asked for someone to guide it for me. I told them I was doing a National Treasure Hunt and that there was a Very Important Clue in the boat in the middle of the lake. The guy looked at me and then charged me another $50.

So: I finally got to the boat in the middle of Moon Lake. And in the middle of the boat was a book, a plain black hardcover book. I grabbed it, decided not to open it in front of my guide in case he was curious, and had him turn back around.

I finally got back to my car and (having driven all night and only slept a few hours in the uncomfortable car seat) found a nice motel to stay. Then I pulled out the book:

The book on top of my laptop.

And I opened it:

The inscription/clue.

However, the book had quite a lot of pages and this was just the first. So I turned the page. And found something quite disturbing:

A child's diary.

Why had the Jester left me the clue in the first page of a child's diary? And who was this Karen? Did the Jester kill her? Did he do something to her like he's doing with Derek?

I'm tired now and all I want to do is sleep, so I'll take pictures of the rest of the diary tomorrow and post them as I do.