On: I've acquired a new superpower

[layer8]

I can’t parse your second sentence.

[whatshisface → layer8]

Uncross your eyes! :-)

(They're saying that the person who send the contract was trying to trick them, and that they were upset when the trick was caught.)

[fragmede → layer8]

a counterparty is the other person you're signing a contract with who sometimes lies to you and says they changed things when they didn't

[layer8 → fragmede]

It was the grammar I had trouble with, not the vocabulary. A comma before “within” would have helped a bit.