Storing conditions as table entries or variables

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I’m wondering if there is any way to store a condition in a table entry to associate it with something. I guess an example would be let’s say you had a topic and you wanted someone to respond different things based on the situation. So how would you make a table to associate the character’s response with the condition of the model world or player’s actions?

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Since conditions can be stored in text, you can do it like this:

topic     response
"accuse"  "[if the evidence is handled]Yep, you got me.[else]I'm innocent! I swear![endif]"

But you can also do it like this:

topic     condition                       response
"accuse"  "[if the evidence is handled]1" "Yep, you got me."
"accuse"  "1"                             "I'm innocent! I swear!"

And then check if the condition entry is empty.

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Works perfect, thanks.