diff --git a/scripts/setup/machine-setup/lib/tailscale.sh b/scripts/setup/machine-setup/lib/tailscale.sh
index 087f5622..53caa5a5 100644
--- a/scripts/setup/machine-setup/lib/tailscale.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup/machine-setup/lib/tailscale.sh
@@ -62,10 +62,14 @@ tailscale_network_menu() {
   info "Which network should this machine join?"
   echo ""
   echo "     [1] set up your own network — offscale"
-  # TODO(pastilhas): your copy. Enough that somebody who has never heard the name
-  # knows what they are choosing, without having to type ?.
-  echo "         offscale is just tailscale and headscale, with our own sugar on top."
-  echo "         [ to be written ]"
+  echo "         Your own coordination server, running on this machine. offscale"
+  echo "         changes nothing about how any of it works: it is headscale's"
+  echo "         open-source code, talking to stock Tailscale clients, exactly as"
+  echo "         they already do. Same protocol, same clients, same behaviour."
+  echo "         What it changes is the work — installing it, running it, keeping"
+  # TODO(pastilhas): name them. "a lot of goodies" is what every product says;
+  # two or three specifics are worth more than the sentence they replace.
+  echo "         it upgraded — and it brings [ goodies to be listed ] with it."
   echo ""
   echo "     [2] use a network you already run — headscale or offscale"
   echo "         You already have a coordination server somewhere. Point this"
@@ -106,9 +110,20 @@ tailscale_networks_help() {
   echo "     it is now a service you host, and it needs to be reachable."
   echo ""
   echo "  OFFSCALE"
-  # TODO(pastilhas): your words. What offscale is, how it relates to headscale,
-  # and what "set up your own network" actually does for someone choosing 1.
-  echo "     [ to be written ]"
+  echo "     Our own distribution of headscale, which is to say: headscale."
+  echo "     The protocol is untouched and the code underneath is theirs. The"
+  echo "     server speaks the same thing headscale speaks, the clients are the"
+  echo "     stock Tailscale ones, and a machine on an offscale network behaves"
+  echo "     exactly as it would on either of the other two. There is no"
+  echo "     offscale protocol to be locked into, because there is no offscale"
+  echo "     protocol."
+  echo ""
+  echo "     What differs is everything around it. Running headscale yourself is"
+  echo "     a project: installing it, putting TLS in front of it, keeping it"
+  echo "     upgraded, and administering it through a config file and a CLI."
+  echo "     offscale makes that a step in a setup script instead, and adds"
+  # TODO(pastilhas): the specifics.
+  echo "     [ goodies to be listed ] on top."
   echo ""
   echo "  FOR OFFICER"
   echo "     Whichever you pick, the tailnet is what Officer treats as its"