VOIDSY: You just look like our friend to us. Wretch, we have your back. We're already ahead, and between all of us, we're going to do well here. We're excellent at winning things, and even if we don't win- we plan on putting up a hell of a fight. We're all going to fuck up eventually, but we can look out for each other now. You're a survivor. A lot of us want to give you a hug, if it were possible.

Wretch says nothing for a while, trying and failing to hide the fact that she was crying. She recomposes herself, takes a deep, burbly breath.

WRETCH: yr too good for me voidsy
WRETCH: you should go be friends with some other god that doesnt suck
WRETCH: but yr here now n im gonna do my best to pull my weight
WRETCH: so lets fuckin do this shit
VOIDSY: That's more like it.
WRETCH: lets talk game then. lets get this shit fucking done

VOIDSY: First off, what's the prize for winning the game?
WRETCH: idk myself
WRETCH: high gods got people who win to keep their traps shut but
WRETCH: people who win do their best to keep fuckin winning so im guessin its good

VOIDSY: And how does combat tend to go?
WRETCH: this shit i know
WRETCH: so when two kitties throw down its bout what youd expect
WRETCH: they get busted up n start bleeding fluid all over everything
WRETCH: catch is they wont die unless somebody issues the KILL command
WRETCH: even when the kill commands out on a kittys head, they dont just die instantly
WRETCH: just means that if they get hurt enough theyll die
WRETCH: think of it kinda liiiiike
WRETCH: if a kittys got a certain amount of health n all that shit gets drained from some fucker beatin on em
WRETCH: if theres a KILL command out on their head n the fucker issued it is doin the beatdown
WRETCH: they die
WRETCH: any other time they dont die
WRETCH: no matter what shit happens
WRETCH: ive seen some fucked shit where people push a kitty so far that even touchin it with a kill command on its head kills it
WRETCH: some people just prefer to mercy kill those ones cause fuck man

VOIDSY: We're guessing that it's time to start training the TCPs, and stop coddling them as much.
WRETCH: i mean
WRETCH: you dont gotta
WRETCH: training yea we gotta do a lot of that but also you gotta keep your kitties happy
WRETCH: or scared i guess but i like happy kitties way fuckin better

VOIDSY: Any benefit to picking a TCP that lines up with things we enjoy, like your jelly type?
WRETCH: nah
WRETCH: i just like pickin stuff i dig yknow
WRETCH: infinite options n all that shit
WRETCH: might as well pick shit that makes me happy

VOIDSY: Do us deities have powers?
WRETCH: yea but it depends
WRETCH: none in the game
WRETCH: some kinda collective like you, idk, don't think you got anything
WRETCH: a lesser god wouldnt have too much where were usually at either
WRETCH: i mean yr still a god and shit but i dont think yr a lesser god yet and you cant go makin people species or animals or shit like that
WRETCH: for lesser gods mostly you just get to live as long as you dont get ate n control yr motifs
WRETCH: for me thatd be sludge but by the look of you yr dealin with masks
WRETCH: so you can probably summon masks n modify em and whatever
WRETCH: pretty cool tbh

VOIDSY: Thank you for telling us all this.

You go to tune your attention back to your TCPs, but she interrupts you.

WRETCH: voidsy
WRETCH: thank you
WRETCH: yr really chill yknow
WRETCH: i hope when all this is said n done we can figure out some fuckin way to hang out better
WRETCH: we got this
VOIDSY: We got this.