You’ve also got the start of scene that writes writes to the global variable, right?
Anyway, if you add the Change Scene event back in, does it work properly?
Why yes I do. Here it is:
Do you suppose that I have to delete the JSON String?
Also, I moved the change scene event back to x, and I still get the same result
For completeness of the thread, I PMed the OP, and after a bit of investigating, worked out the main culprit of the issue was that it needed a condition to check that the storage group existed before reading from it.
Once that was in place, it pretty much worked.