REFUGEVILLE

With all due respect, Gloomy I understand your point but disagree because as far as I can tell:

-Thans to the fish trap, We have lots of food, and, I feel it's somewhat important here, as far as I can tell no real way to conserve it. We can't smoke it, salt it or jerky it. Selling part of your food you won't be able to eat before it spoils seems a pretty fairly straightforward behavior

-The villagers do seem to implicitly trust their guardian spirit (that would be us) to tell them the right thing which will lead them to survival even if it's somewhat counter intuitive.
They also know the Signet is as much a threat as running out of food, in fact for most of thm it's much bigger trauma and the regular abomination coming in frequently are alway a angerous reminder, therefore any information on it is a good investment

I don't feel it's really 'gaming the system', at least that's not what I was though I was trying to do here. But the fact is, the way Mayu prsent the adventure is pretty board/video gamey in some ways (that's not a reproach by the way, I enjoy it jsut fine), with comerce in fixed prices, building costing finite and definite amount of rsources, technologies and new having to be bought in the form of books, and do on, so it's kinda hard to escape it, sorry.

(I will however admit to a personal bias. As I enjoy things like writting and lore, I tend to be curious, so yes I will push for the aquisition of more informationw hen we can unless i feel it's really not an option or out of character.)