The Voice Across the Static

You receive an audio player in the mail. No return address. Just a voice.

She says she used to be you.
She leaves instructions.
You’re already behind.
But the city remembers.

This free bundle is inspired in part by Janet Cardiff’s audio walks—especially The Missing Voice (Case Study B)—and expands that lineage of narrative dislocation, spectral urbanism, and collaborative memory.

It includes:

The Voice You Haven’t Heard Yet
A corrupted transcript, possibly from the future, possibly from a version of yourself. You read it like a recovered file—out of sequence, half-lost, but full of instructions for things you haven’t done yet. Or already did.

Memory is collaborative. Identity is layered. The voice you think is yours has always been a chorus.

One Step Behind
A solo journaling RPG where your own city becomes haunted by potential pasts. Instead of listening to audio, you read “tracks” she recorded—then document the spaces, emotions, and hauntings they describe. You trace forgotten routes. You contradict her version. Eventually, you forget whose notebook this was.

Inspired by:

• The Missing Voice (Case Study B) by Janet Cardiff

• Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

• Annihilation, The Magnus Archives, and unreliable field guides

• Solo games like Field Guide to Memory

What You’ll Need:

• A notebook

• A six-sided die (optional)

• 2–4 hours

• An openness to memory bleed

Themes:

• Audio hauntings

• Urban memory

• Temporal displacement

• Identity as transmission

Content Warnings:
Dissociation, haunting, memory loss, the suggestion of past trauma or possession.

Created by:
The Grey Ledger Society collaboration with the CGCG Helix of Digital Daemons
For contemplative use only.
Discontinue play if you begin remembering things that never happened.