Connect auction knowledge and group transport quotes

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

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 ## Current checkpoint and work
 
+**Black Market knowledge and group Guild transport — 29 October. Prototyped /
+Partial.** Atreides can answer the existing private auction-knowledge question
+from an actual Advanced Black Market inspection. A staged group Guild ally can
+also use self-funded transport while another member's positive bribe promise
+fences group escrow; the quote, table and server now agree. Seven related files
+pass 43 cases, including a genuine Advanced offer and staged Basic/Advanced
+group action journeys; typecheck, lint and build pass. Unavailable inspections yield unknown; live bribe
+answers and affordability remain binding. Semuta, occupied inspections, full
+group games and broader interactions remain open.
+[Knowledge scope](TRUTHTRANCE_KNOWLEDGE.md#advanced-black-market-inspection--29-october-2026);
+[transport scope](OPTIONAL_ALLIANCE_VICTORY.md#self-funded-guild-transport-with-a-live-promise--29-october-2026).
+
 **Advanced Emperor auction funding — 29 October. Prototyped / Partial.**
 New ordinary and Richese auction invoices route the Emperor's direct allied
 contribution to the bank under the supplied Advanced source, while direct gifts

docs/OPTIONAL_ALLIANCE_VICTORY.md

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 # Optional three-stronghold alliance victory
 
+## Self-funded Guild transport with a live promise — 29 October 2026
+
+In staged Basic and Advanced group games, a Guild ally's transport quote now
+recognizes the alliance even when a live positive bribe answer temporarily
+fences group funding. The player must still afford their own payment and keep
+the answer possible; absent escrow cannot supply donor contributions. Focused
+cases form the group and the promise through actual actions, stage physical
+positions and wallets, then complete transport and the promised bribe. Group
+lobby entry and broader interactions remain unfinished.
+
 ## Advanced classic group foundation — 29 October 2026
 
 **Staged prototype, not a selectable game mode.** The same group negotiation

docs/TRUTHTRANCE_KNOWLEDGE.md

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 private questions and all-profile responses. Missing and aged observations are
 explicitly staged; broader combinations and deployed acceptance remain open.
 
+## Advanced Black Market inspection — 29 October 2026
+
+**Prototyped / Partial.** The existing `auctionPeek` fact now also reports the
+native Atreides seat's successful inspection of an active Advanced Richese
+Black Market lot. It uses the offered card bound to that lot, or the reserved
+physical seller card in older frames. Missing, canceled, expired, completed or
+other-faction observations return unknown. This does not disclose the card to
+the questioner. A real Advanced setup exercises the offer, inspection, private
+Yes/No question and four bot responses; a conserved Truthtrance is transferred
+between hands by the fixture. Semuta, occupied Homeworld inspection and broader
+auction interactions remain open.
+
 ## Atreides ordinary auction knowledge — 27 October 2026
 
 **Prototyped / Partial.** The structured fact `{kind:'auctionPeek', name}` asks
 whether Atreides' currently inspected ordinary auction card has the named
 printed face. The answer uses only the current lot's successful native
 inspection. Other factions, canceled or expired inspections and missing lots
-return unknown. Active Ixian and Richese special auctions and non-Atreides
+return unknown. Apart from the Black Market extension above, active special auctions and non-Atreides
 occupied Homeworld inspection are separate and remain unfinished. The card identity is
 not added to another seat's view; the selected answer is public through the
 normal Truthtrance flow. Single and compound selectors use the public printed