Locker room: excluded by the 16's; he carries the news of Wayne's on-air breakdown

texture · 17 Nov YDAU

• When: 17 Nov YDAU, males' locker room
• What: In an aside on E.T.A.'s cliquish 16's, the narration notes they "tended to exclude Stice," mostly because he rooms with Coyle and drills up with the 18's. During Pemulis's pre-match locker-room scene, Stice and Csikszentmihalyi come "spasming in" (Pemulis's phrase, n332: "Zoltan and The Darkness come like spasming in") with the news that Troeltsch has Wayne on the WETA air and Wayne — accidentally dosed with Pemulis's Tenuate — has "lost his mind," publicly savaging the whole staff. Stice is the messenger who yanks Pemulis into the crisis. [Attribution note: Stice appears here as a bystander/messenger, not a principal; recorded for continuity of his November presence.]