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Unbounded “hallucinated quests” transfer model failure to the player. A safer design makes uncertainty authored and inspectable while deterministic systems control feasibility, settlement, and harm limits.
INTERNATIONAL GAME SYSTEMS
A mission architecture in which generative text can add variation but cannot invent impossible objectives, nonexistent rewards, unsafe instructions, or unreviewable game-state claims.
ORIENTATION
Unbounded “hallucinated quests” transfer model failure to the player. A safer design makes uncertainty authored and inspectable while deterministic systems control feasibility, settlement, and harm limits.
WORKING BRIEF
The engine creates the objective, location class, available path, eligibility, reward, deadline, accessibility requirements, and failure rules first. Generative dialogue may describe that object but cannot create or alter it.
Mission interfaces distinguish engine-verified facts, issuer statements, rumors, character beliefs, hypotheses, and unknowns. Players can inspect changes and see whether a statement came from authored content, deterministic state, or generated dialogue.
A fictional character may misunderstand, lie, misremember, or speculate when the game marks that possibility and provides evidence-based ways to evaluate it. Random model confabulation is treated as a defect, not a personality or psychiatric diagnosis.
Before acceptance and at key state changes, the server checks that the objective exists, the route or interaction remains possible, and the reward is funded. If the world changes, the system offers an alternate completion, extension, or no-fault cancellation.
When generation, server state, or validation fails, the player keeps or recovers collateral, receives a clear explanation, and may receive time or resource compensation. The correction propagates to reputation and derivative records.
Operators track impossible objectives, contradiction rate, blocked completion, erroneous settlement, repeat offenders, and appeal outcomes. Content is quarantined when risk exceeds the defined threshold.
COMPLETE DOSSIER
Terms are defined for this site’s evidence method, not as universal legal or clinical definitions.
RESEARCH EDITION
This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.
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