You have Dad check your communicator and confirm that Spit is not yet online. You ask Dad to start TEACHING the other TCPs skills, and take inventory of who knows what.

Dad teaches Primus WRITING, Buddy TEACHING, and Marnet both. Their basics would be covered nicely then. She asks what skills they would want to learn, and what would be most useful.

Marnet is taught MORTALITY. Mortality, considering the odds of how this game will go, is crucial. Marnet accepts the reality of her situation with a shaking voice, visibly rattled by the idea that her new family could be killed. Even so, Marnet recognizes the important of this knowledge…better to know than to not.

Your conversation continues with Wretch as Dad gets to business.

VOIDSY: You know, your bio in the puzzle temple said you like games, particularly violent ones. What are those like?
WRETCH: well here we got shit like gameshows and performances n all sorts of stuff
WRETCH: my citys got TONS of shit like acting competitions n games
WRETCH: winners get all sorts of prizes and the losers get mauled or eaten or somethin
WRETCH: its some high stakes mad bullshit and i love it
VOIDSY: Sounds..dangerous.
WRETCH: you BET

VOIDSY: What's this about Eastwood having kids?
WRETCH: hes got a bad tendency of sleepin around and shit and has a bunch of kids all over
WRETCH: his daughter lives with us n shes cool i guess
WRETCH: i dont know her well or anything

VOIDSY: Can we trust anybody on this alliance?
WRETCH: idk
WRETCH: miller seems chill and eastwood works for me
WRETCH: even if they end up bein shitty we kinda dont have a choice in this shit
WRETCH: spits kind of the big bad in this situation n not much can be worse than her
VOIDSY: …can we trust you?

She's quiet.

WRETCH: yea
WRETCH: i wanna make this work
WRETCH: and i wanna win this
WRETCH: can i trust you?