Disciplinary shit-detail in the tunnels; "something disturbing"

texture · 11 Nov YDAU, P.M.

• When: 11 Nov YDAU, that afternoon (the source text's "that P.M."), in the E.T.A. tunnels; disclosed post-viewing that evening
• What: Arslanian ("the Id-man") and Todd Possalthwaite serve a disciplinary shit-detail in the tunnels that afternoon and encounter something disturbing there; afterward they bring Kent Blott in to speak to Hal about it. The disclosure comes only after the evening's Blood Sister viewing, when "Out of nowhere Hal remembers: Smothergill." — the narration juxtaposes the name with the report without stating the connection, and what they encountered is never specified inside his own scenes. (Their drifting into V.R.6 mid-viewing, event 9, plausibly is the bringing-Blott-to-Hal visit — a link the text invites but does not state.)