Your impressionable young assistant has also been listening to the walls. She's told you what she heard there.

[Call it a gentle reminder. The range of what they don't know is still so much vaster than what they do.]

So let us review the playing field. The Admin controls the operation of the town, but not the ghosts. The ghosts are attempting to help us, without interference from the Admin, but are subverted by the Entity. The Entity and the Admin are struggling for control over the network - you suppose that it is the Entity that is responsible for the occasional network-borne hallucinations. The ghosts want us to solve the town's mystery and escape, the Admin wants to preserve the town status quo, and the Entity, as we have so picturesquely been informed, wants to eat us.

[It's a lot to muse on, especially out loud. He pauses, coughing briefly, lets out a long breath before picking up his train of thoughts.]

Something is still missing here. I've had one of those dream encounters with the thing below myself. It was bound, powerless. It needed my help.