So they'd seek a truce a truce with the Ivory Tower-Highfair mafia to buy some time.

If I recall correctly each territory has one Mafia and one Detective faction at work? Or at least is allowed that. So backroom deals between opposing faction could be a thing?

Mafia supports a Detective in taking hold in a territory, and the Detectives willingly turn a blind eye to them unless they're directly impacted?

@Qia [Temporary] truce/tenuous alliance?

Kind of thinking though, narratively speaking, what would motivate Detective factions to fight each other? Like I can more easily picture Mafias trying to jockey for power and ice each other.

Oh definitely. I don't forsee detectives fighting each other. I imagine they would simply do alliances or side-step around each other.

Oh I just realized for those wanting to get info from Webb... That may be hard considering he doesn't really know how to talk.
Unless you can speak spider! (It's mainly hand motions)

Yeah I would think their thoughts would be in mainly common speech; possibly still a bit broken in terms of sentence structure (Which I'm excited to be writing ahah) so He'd totally be able to do that!

Smh. All this effort when you could just:

Smh. All this effort when you could just:

Woah, High Card...and here, I thought I was the only one (on the site).

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Oh Webb would totally end up webbing up some words somewhere if he had enough energy and food to do so.

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Can he read / write?