After six weeks of failed pitches about Odar, Sally Grissom decides to write the story herself.
1. Ars Paradoxica episode 34, "Path," follows Sally Grissom as she tries to reveal Odar's time-travel secrets in the 1950s.
2. Sally Grissom drives the story, while Maggie Elborne's research and Nikhil Sharma's connection to the Anchorites make them central to Sally's search for help.
3. Sally's failed efforts to persuade reporters and students leave her questioning whether butterfly syndrome is affecting her decisions.
4. In December 1953, Sally reports that six weeks of pitching Odar to newspapers produced no investigation she could rely on.
5. Sally decides to turn her audio diaries into a book, and Enrico Fermi reads it but doubts others will believe her.
6. In 1955, Jack Wyatt visits Sally after hearing that she has been shouting about time travel in her University of Chicago physics class.
7. Sally asks Lou Gaines to locate Maggie Elborne, who lives in a secluded cabin and has received notes from a future iteration of herself.
8. Elborne's notes include a cure formulation, but the group still needs quartacronopine and considers using two timepieces to retrieve it.
9. Sally describes butterfly syndrome as making her feel unable to predict her behavior, while Elborne explains the syndrome's brain lesions.
10. For listeners who enjoy character-driven time-travel audio drama.
