Secret Society

How to get matched with all four of Doge's friends.

Introduction

The Secret Society an optional side-quest that can affect who gets elected mayor at the end of the game, as well as minor unique dialogue options. This guide is for those who are interested in the story.

Accept Doge's invitation to share your data. She will send a private message with the questions about halfway through E1, and you will receive your match near the end of E2. The person you are matched with will send a private message near the end of N1. Interact with the Somnodrome in N2. Your choice to use it or not is irrelevant. Continue to agree to work with whoever you are matched with, and they will accompany Mayor Hermanubis to the Expedition Site in Chapter IV. You cannot change who you are matched with. The "fifth friend" is not eligible. The following answers are just one variation; there are multiple variations to receive the same person.

Bonus: to get no one elected mayor, match with Jeremy, follow all the subsequent instructions, but choose to share the W2 Somnodrome data with everyone and say it has important truths to teach us.

Helga

1. Compassion
2. Yes, lying can be okay
3. No, no one deserves to suffer unnecessarily
4. The universe is weird, we'll never fully understand it
5. Eventually change for the better is followed by change for the worse
6. We should not disregard the wisdom that brought us here
7. No, prayer has no effect on the world

Lynerks

1. Knowledge
2. Yes, lying can be okay
3. No, no one deserves to suffer unnecessarily
4. The universe is weird, we'll never fully understand it
5. Human progress shows that things can get better and stay that way
6. We should not let our future be defined by our past
7. No, prayer has no effect on the world

Rand

1. Knowledge
2. Yes, lying can be okay
3. Yes, bad behavior deserves to be punished
4. The universe is reducible to universal basic laws
5. Human progress shows that things can get better and stay that way
6. We should not disregard the wisdom that brought us here
7. Yes, prayer can change things

Rand can be elected mayor:
a. Remain neutral or anti-progress in Social Media
b. Share the Somnodrome data from W2 with the Archive Scholars
c. Tell Hermanubis that the "myth is strangling our species"

Jeremy

1. Knowledge
2. Yes, lying is okay
3. No, no one deserves to suffer unnecessarily
4. The universe is weird, we'll never fully understand it
5. Human progress show that things can get better and stay that way
6. We should not disregard the wisdom which brought us here
7. I haven't got an answer, I see no way to choose

Jeremy can be elected mayor:
a. Remain neutral or anti-progress in Social Media
b. Share the Somnodrome data from W2 with the Government
c. Tell Hermanubis that the "myth is strangling our species"

[valkeera]

Just a comment to Rand, if you want to get him elected as mayor, I found that the safer choice would be to tell Herman that "future cannot be built on a lie", instead of "myth strangling species" (that one pushes you more towards Byron).

[VapeInVR]

God I hate Rand. Superstitious fool much too interested in other people's morals.

[The Sojourner]

Also a worthy addition to this guide: what are each of the "secret phrases" from each of them, if any? I know of three:

Rand: Dark Satanic Mills . No use anywhere afaik.
Helga: Majestic Dashing Hamsters . Can be used at her shop.
Mysterious fifth person: Moral Compiler Disco . No use anywhere afaik. Can only be gotten under select circumstances (I think you just have to choose correctly while in the working Somnodrome, but there could be more to it as well ...).

[The Sojourner]

Most useful TTP2 guide to date. I've always wondered how each person can become (or not become) mayor. Byron is by far the most obvious, second to Hermanubis, but the others are a little less obvious.