Design Dilemma #2 — Should You Feel the Eyes? (Patreon)

Last week's dilemma — The Callum Problem — got a great response. Thank you! This is working exactly how I'd hoped.

This week's question is about something you can't see.

THE SETUP

There's a variable running under the hood of your playthrough that tracks how suspicious the organization is of Claire. Not any single NPC — the org. Every time you snoop where you shouldn't, get caught somewhere you don't belong, or act outside the lines of your cover story, it ticks up. Every time you successfully embed yourself — seduce the right person, play the obedient worker, reframe a mistake as a horny girl being a horny girl — it ticks down.

It already affects things. Certain encounters only fire at certain thresholds. But right now, it's mostly invisible.

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