Open World Integration

[OneManMonkeySquad]

Hey, I've toyed and looked around on how to best integrate Ink into an open world game (think Skyrim). Currently my dialog looks like this (please don't laugh, I'm a programmer):

VAR talked_to_faye = 0

=== InteractFaye ===
# npcs: Faye
{ talked_to_faye == 0:
	Faye: Bear. Bring me head get reward.
- else:
	Faye: Bear.
}
~ talked_to_faye++
* {has_item("Player", 22)} [Give Bear Head] {remove_item("Player", 22)} 
    Faye: Good. -> END
* [Make Faye hostile] {make_hostile_to_player("Faye")} -> END
+ [Exit] -> END

The game uses _inkStory.ChoosePathString to "start" a dialog. The __inkStory stays the same, meaning the global state is shared. This means that the knot restarts every time the dialog is triggered, thus I have to use the talked_to_faye variable to give a different reaction. I wonder if I could somehow stay inside the dialog, using threads or parallel "flows". Or if that is even a desirable thing, KISS et al.

edit: Hmm, maybe the solution of having a [Move] choice together with having one parallel flow per NPC. That would achieve the dialog pause at predefined points. Lots of options, maybe somebody can share some experience.