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"emshort@mindspring.com" wrote:
[...]

> Galatea and Pytho's Mask both keep track of the
> current-conversation-partner at all times.  (In the case of Galatea
> that's not hard, obviously.)  Then ask about defaults to talking to
> that person.  In cases where there is no currently-selected person, it
> creates an error message.

Ah, yes.  I forgot about that detail (odd, since I just implemented the same algorithm for
something else last weekend).  Remembering the last person (until that person is no longer
in scope) does make this work better, using the "well, then, find whoever's around" schtick
if there's no NPC "stored."

[...]


