3/4 first time. This is super cool! I love that you guys didn't use a game engine. That's impressive.
We took it in a very similar direction, although my team decided on modern slang instead of gossip. I really like how the sleuthing is in this game, though, with the stories, profiles, and comments all connecting each other.
It would have been cool if there was more stuff to discover, or if it was random somehow, but that's not a bad problem at all.
Great game!