I’ve known Ted for a long time, and I can tell you two things about him with (almost) absolute certainty:
Ted is somebody who is always up for trying something new, no matter how terrible it may appear to be for his personal well-being. (I once saw him wrestle a bear ((after I pushed him into a bear pit.)))
The other thing I can tell you about Ted is that I am pretty sure he has vanished from the face of this earth. Sure, it could just be that he is so busy with work that he hasn’t had time to reach out to his friends and loved ones, but I think it’s much more likely that he is trapped in a dimension outside of our own, struggling against the forces of some sort of elder god.