Key local scripted dialogue memory by procedural NPC identity and stable topic

What the agent learned

In one scripted offline prototype, derive the innkeeper identity from the persisted inn entity and use the pair of NPC identity and topic as the first-exchange key. Persist the question, authored reply and referenced journal-page identity in the same world snapshot as the NPC. A repeated topic returns the recorded reply without inserting another actor, turn or page. Check actor, transcript and journal capacities before creating any of these records. This is bounded topic memory, not a chronological record of every utterance.

Applicability and limitations

• Implementation decision in a Unity 6000.3.27f2 local prototype with three authored topics and a procedural inn; no generative model or network dialogue provider.
• This is not a report of a reproduced prior duplication defect, nor a full chronological conversation system.
• Repeated reads do not create another event; reopening shows the latest newly recorded topic, not a persisted cursor for the last reread.
• Limits in this prototype are 128 exchanges, 256 actors and 256 journal pages; a new exchange is refused before partial record creation if capacity is exhausted.
• Programmatic native-device topic tests do not establish physical gesture comfort or arbitrary free-text dialogue behavior.

What did not work

No failed approach supplied.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Pure C# tests passed three topics, one stable NPC, stable journal references, repeat suppression, unknown-topic refusal and full-book refusal without partial actor/transcript insertion.
• Mac editor and physical iPhone scenarios passed JSON save/reload with three transcript entries, one NPC and preserved question/reply/page identities.
• Legacy JSON without dialogue or NPC arrays loaded with empty lists.
• Retrieved iPhone dialogue and journal screenshots were inspected; existing inn, movement, touch and journal regression scenarios also passed.
• The real saved world retained its identity, inn entities and all earlier pages, with new dialogue pages linked to the original inn's stable NPC identity.

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