His terms

Matt: Come into the living room. The whole house will gather there, you do not want to miss the show, do you?

Task: Go through the living room.

The room is crowded, like on holiday. But the mood is different. Remaining Followers rabbit together, Jim tries to reassure them, to explain something, and they just throw suspicious hooded looks at him. The Undergrounders by contrast stand in nearly combat formation. Bill and Jack with them, quickly explains the situation to everyone they haven't seen yet. You don't see John, Ryan or Isami anywhere.

Jenny: Feather, what happens?

Jenny had just entered, she rubs her eyes. Probably she has waked up recently and still knows nothing. You are going to explain the situation to her when...

Matt: Greetings to you.

Matt's voice sounds quite impressive. Even the speakers don't crackle any more.

Matt: You hear what I'm not the Puppeteer. You ask yourself, who am I?

Alice: Trickster.

Followers brighten up when they hear Alice's voice.

Alice: Hush, nestlings. We believed that the Puppeteer is our teacher. We were looking for the point in his lessons. We thought he was strong. But if you still think so, ask yourself - where is he now?

Alice: And I'll say. He broke. There is no Puppeteer anymore and a miserable man who tried to seem great, is not worthy of worship. And I found another teacher...

Matt: No. I say that now you're equal to me, Elis. And any of you can be equal. You just need to pass my tests obediently. All of them.

Jim: You offer them to become slaves.

Jim faces a confused ravens feet wide apart, as if surviving wind, ready to disperse the nest.

Jim: You're talking about equality, Matt Stabley, and you're lying. You do not want to teach people, you want to just dominate them. You have no idea, but death.

Matt: But you have no another way out. Or do you just give up to your enemies, the Underground? Which, incidentally, hardly survive long...

Jack: Do not worry, we'll live. By the way, I've recently seen a Puppeteer. Name is John, face - just like on the tape, but already with a shiner. Can go and ask yourselves - whether you need to obey the one who stole from him.

Matt: Ahem.

You've got shivers running up your spine. In a quiet coughing you hear irritated snake's hissing, and even Jack momentarily stops from the sound.

Matt: You will choose. And you will face the consequences. If you obey me - you'll get out of the house. If you sit idly by - you'll stay here forever. If you try to interrupt me - you'll die. Did I make myself clear?

Jack looks up, but Bill quietly puts his hand on his shoulder. Some nod, others frown, someone looks at Firewood hopefully, at Bill... At you.

Matt: Thank you for your attention.

You completed Matt’s task and received some points of freedom and some tokens

Jim: Well, the enemy came out of the shadows. I'm afraid these won't be those tests, we all are used to. Judging from the stories of the first act, he may ask us of anything. It seems dark times come to the house.