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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6661363" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>It does that already. Sure, you start from the premise that she has Space Rabies (which is a narrative thing) but the tables tell you precisely what that means.</p><p></p><p>You know that the procedure is to stimulate the inflamed endocrine cluster. You might know it's Space Rabies, but this has just told you that the endocrine cluster is inflamed, and that you need to stimulate it.</p><p></p><p>The door also already mentions the part that needs triggering. If I get "intensify the ionic nanite seal" we know that the ionic nanite seal is the bit that's being targeted, and we're intensifying it. </p><p></p><p>Or if I get (another random roll) pressurize the primary proton container, we know that the primary proton container is the thing, and pressurization is the action. It's all in there.</p><p></p><p>But if you particularly wanted situation-specific tables, you could make a "door" table and an "FTL drive" table and a "brain" table if you wanted; the content of the tables doesn't matter, because you can create as many as you want, as specific or general as you like. For now, I'm stopping at fairly general engineering and medical tables because I want to concentrate on the actual system, not the data. But data is totally plugin-able. You could write a book just full of tables for every specific type of situation you can think of. In fact, if I get this working, I might!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6661363, member: 1"] It does that already. Sure, you start from the premise that she has Space Rabies (which is a narrative thing) but the tables tell you precisely what that means. You know that the procedure is to stimulate the inflamed endocrine cluster. You might know it's Space Rabies, but this has just told you that the endocrine cluster is inflamed, and that you need to stimulate it. The door also already mentions the part that needs triggering. If I get "intensify the ionic nanite seal" we know that the ionic nanite seal is the bit that's being targeted, and we're intensifying it. Or if I get (another random roll) pressurize the primary proton container, we know that the primary proton container is the thing, and pressurization is the action. It's all in there. But if you particularly wanted situation-specific tables, you could make a "door" table and an "FTL drive" table and a "brain" table if you wanted; the content of the tables doesn't matter, because you can create as many as you want, as specific or general as you like. For now, I'm stopping at fairly general engineering and medical tables because I want to concentrate on the actual system, not the data. But data is totally plugin-able. You could write a book just full of tables for every specific type of situation you can think of. In fact, if I get this working, I might! [/QUOTE]
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