You know what, youre right. I did write tempered with. I don’t really have any explanation for that. I know its spelled tampered, tempered would be like a blacksmithing or cooking thing.

I see, that’s pretty strange. I mean, I guess I have some familiarity with and even sympathy for learn things = gain xp, but if it’s something that critical to the events of the game it’s really weird that it’s doesn’t actually give you more agency. Isn’t that sort of the whole point of spies, gaining information that can be leveraged in various ways? But it seems like the game isn’t inclined to let you do that.

But its not really critical, because the game doesnt let it be critical. That specific point of leveraging things you know being a key point of spying is interesting because you rarely actually get to do that, and most times when you explicitly try to do it the game brushes you off. Like there’s a point where you can figure out the actual identity of another spy, and if you try and get leverage by greeting her with her real name she just goes “Oh hi. Cool that you found out my name, anyway I don’t actually care about our spy conflict. Wanna go back to disaster lesbianism?” (Also the disaster lesbianism is kind of an act, but you both know its kind of an act so you go along with it so its kinda real. Which is part of why its a disaster)
And I DO want to go back to the disaster lesbianism, damn it, but also what the hey