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Example: ** Farewell
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Location: Varying which table to look at
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RecipeLocation: Saying Complicated Things
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Index: Conversation system with recap of past exchanges
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Description: People who respond to conversational gambits, summarize what they said before if asked again, and provide recap of conversation that is past.
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For: Z-Machine
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We begin with the idea that each person comes with their own table of things to say:
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{*}"Farewell"
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A person has a table name called conversation.
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Instead of asking someone about something:
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let the source be the conversation of the noun;
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if topic understood is a topic listed in source:
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if there is a turn stamp entry:
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say "[The noun] has already told you that [summary entry].";
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otherwise:
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now turn stamp entry is the turn count;
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say "[reply entry][paragraph break]";
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otherwise:
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say "[The noun] stares at you blankly."
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For the sake of simplicity, we'll conflate asking and telling here, though it would certainly be possible to have a more complex implementation if we want the characters to be told things as well.
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{**}Instead of telling someone about something:
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try asking the noun about it.
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Now we might want to add a recap command to review conversation that has already occurred.
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{**}Definition: a person is other if it is not the player.
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Understand "recap" or "recall" or "review" as recalling conversations.
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Recalling conversations is an action applying to nothing.
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Since we've been recording the turn count of each conversation bit, we can even present these in order by sorting the tables first.
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{**}Carry out recalling conversations:
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repeat with speaker running through other people:
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let source be the conversation of the speaker;
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sort source in turn stamp order;
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say "[The speaker] has so far told you: [line break]";
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let index be 0;
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repeat through source:
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if there is a turn stamp entry:
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let index be 1;
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say " [summary entry][line break]";
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if index is 0, say " absolutely nothing[line break]";
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say conditional paragraph break.
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Now it remains only to create a couple of characters and provide them both with something to say:
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{**} The Farewell Bend Cafe is a room. "Beautiful Farewell Bend, Idaho -- or is it Oregon? An almost-abandoned truckstop, in any case, on one of those interminable American east-west highways."
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Tina is a woman in the Farewell Bend Cafe. The conversation of Tina is the Table of Tina's Chatter. "Tina the waitress is slowly pouring coffee from the pot with a black neck into the pot with an orange neck."
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George is a man in the Farewell Bend Cafe. The conversation of George is the Table of George's Chatter. "There is also a large man at table five. The tattoo on his arm says George. For the moment we will assume that it is his own name and not someone else's."
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Table of Tina's Chatter
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topic reply summary turn stamp
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"aasvogel" "'Oh, it's a vulture.'" "that an aasvogel is a vulture" a number
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"acaudate" "She shrugs, mid-pour. 'Means something doesn't have a tail.'" "that acaudate means 'tailless'" --
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"absorptiometer" "'It's a thing that measures the solubility of gases in a liquid,' she explains gently, as to a child." "that an absorptiometer measures solubility of gasses in a liquid" --
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Table of George's Chatter
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topic reply summary turn stamp
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"baccaceous" "'Something that has or bears berries,' says George, without looking up." "that baccaceous means berry-bearing or berry-like" a number
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"bagheera" "'Oh, that'd be a velvet-like textile.'" "that bagheera is a velvet-like textile" --
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"balistarius" "'That's a crossbow-man,' George replies instantly." "that a balistarius is a crossbow-man" --
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A word of warning: this system does assume that every person in the game has a conversation table defined. If that were not the case, we would have to be a bit more careful.
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As always, we can override specific words, too:
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{**}Instead of asking Tina about "advertisement" for the first time:
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say "Tina looks embarrassed. 'Of course! I almost forgot.' She hands you a brochure.";
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move the brochure to the player.
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The encyclopedia sales brochure is a thing. The description is "A glossy flyer indicating that you can receive a free Volume A-Aalto of the New Idahoan Encyclopedia Set if you send back the business reply card, and then have the option of purchasing the remaining volumes at a very very reasonable price."
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Test me with "recap / ask tina about aasvogel / recap / ask george about baccaceous / ask tina about absorptiometer / recap / ask tina about advertisement / read brochure".
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