GR translation: at the annual Roasts

[Mike Weaver]

Maybe just an annual dinner. But maybe, given the mention of mindgames, 
a celebrity roast type event, but celebratory rather than celebrity.

On 15/12/2025 15:11, Mike Jing wrote:
> V697.20-24, P711.8-12   They speak of taking So-and-So and “putting him on
> the Dream.” They use the phrase for each other too, in sterile tenderness,
> when bad news is passed, at the annual Roasts, when the endless mind-gaming
> catches a colleague unprepared—“Boy, did we put him on the Dream.” You
> know, don’t you?
>
> What does "Roasts" mean here? The published translation interpreted it in
> the sense of a celebrity roast, which doesn't seem right to me.
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