Can NPC stats be linked?

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

@slinet042

I’d definitely appreciate it! I don’t know if I am just super thick skulled at the moment or just over my head and out of my depth but, in trying to enact zarf’s suggestion I can’t seem to work out how to relate two NPCs to each other, let alone three. I’ve got as far as the code described in the document in part 13.7 where a transmutation is covered. Currently looks like this:

An NPC is a kind of person. Cloning relates NPCs to each other in groups. The verb to clone (it clones, they clone, it cloned) implies the cloning relation. Definition: an NPC is clonable if they become more than one NPC. An NPC can be a clone. An NPC can be an original. John is an NPC. John is in Room1. John is an original. James is an NPC. James is in Stasis. James is a clone. James is the clone of John.

You can probably guess that that doesn’t work, I know I need to do more/better defining but I’m struggling on how at the moment.

It looks to me as though you need to use the verb you defined, “to clone.” So instead of “James is the clone of John” you would write “James clones John,” and instead of “an NPC is clonable if they become more than one NPC” you would write “an NPC is clonable if they clone more than one NPC.”

Also, I suspect that you want to say “An NPC can be a clone or original”; as it is you are defining two on-off properties, “clone/not clone” and “original/not original,” when I think you want those to be alternatives to each other.

UPDATE: That said, I think ChrisC’s tables solution is probably more workable. By the way, you don’t have to quote the post to make sure the tabs copy correctly anymore.