I won't disagree - everything about this is absurd, and it seems designed to throw everyone into confusion and despair.

Before you start thinking, you and your friend aren't useless. We all have different expertise, and then we have a lot of unspoken rules and hurdles we're trying to figure out here...

You're the first one that came up with the idea of writing in the book... painful as it was, it did give us new leads.