All hands on deck!
Bill: Feather, the Underground is having a meeting in the basement again. The composition is broadened — to everyone who wishes to come.
Task: Go through the basement.
The basement is crowded, you see many familiar faces. And many white bandages. Bandaged heads and hands. Someone is cursing some new trap, showing a leg in a splint and a crutch.
Rats are vigorous as always, but sometimes you hear a hint of doubts in their voices. What can we do? We have tried everything. We are tired and injured…
Jack and Bill are trying to answer everyone, but finally they just walk out to the center and climb on top of boxes.
Bill: He has ruled us out too soon. We’re not dead yet! And so...
The old detective’s eyes are burning. Jack is laughing and it seems that everything is like it used to be, everything is the same. There are no terrible scars, no crutches, no deadly traps… It’s all just a game again, only a game, and for a little while you can’t remember that the stake is no longer freedom, it’s life.
Jack: Don’t give up! Are we rats or not? We will always find a way to put a spoke in the wheel of someone who’s trying to lock us up!
Bill: Maybe we can’t go under the knife anymore and our war will be quiet, but it will not become less significant! John and his people will go up the line, cover us. God knows, the boy has reasons to do it! While they are distracting the cameras and making diversions, we can fight as partisans without being noticed. We’ll organize a shelter, help those who abandoned hope and will gnaw at Matt’s throne little by little.
You completed Bill's task. You received some points of freedom and some tokens.
Bill: A nice team we have here. They never lose heart. Too bad the composition is questionable: women, old people and cripples...
