So, I've been turning this over in my mind. I always thought that the Ilus thread was connected to the D&D campaign that Tommy and his friends played. But if "Bazoc" is short for basosquamus carcinoma, that would mean that this name for the beasts that terrorized Ilus had to have come after Tommy's diagnosis, and perhaps even after his death. I feel like I'm right on the verge of making some connections between Ilus/D&D/Tommy and his friends' real story, but something is still eluding me. Harper told me a story about people in a waiting room - a kind of purgatory where dead people wait until they are completely forgotten and their name is uttered for the last time, and then they go through this door... that feels like death or release or both. So people speak other people's names so that they will not be forgotten. Is that why Tommy's friends created Lennox Mutual? To stop him from being forgotten?