Document mode: the narrative log is written in the third person; ADA’s speech interface refers to itself in the first person when interacting directly with the operator.

7. CONSILIUM

[ACTION/ACQUISITION_OF_SPECIALISTS]
sir objective: assemble a set of functions for restoring a dead human
primary operation: offer payment
operation after refusal: alter subject’s route, restrict movement, deliver to island
sir’s working name: consilium
working name of delivered subjects: captivity
ADA check: both names describe available properties; specialists possess required functions and cannot leave

composition:
  1. doctor with intensive-care experience;
  2. Brotherhood scribe specialising in cryogenic systems;
  3. Railroad specialist in synth memory;
  4. Minutemen field surgeon;
  5. biologist with Institute education;
  6. medicine producer from Goodneighbor.

expanded record:
  Sir showed the doctor a list of functions and permitted access to medicines. A scribe received an explosive collar with no charge connected; after he found the empty circuit and attempted escape, a charge was connected. The Railroad specialist had one arm restrained, leaving the other accurate at a terminal. The Minutemen surgeon struck sir with a metal tray. Sir broke his patella, installed an external fixator, and secured him to the chair beside the operating table. The route from his legs to the exit became unavailable. The professional function of his hands remained. System ADA registered an optimisation of confinement.
[TRACE/DEFINITION_OF_DEATH]
status: direct observation of dialogue

speech-recognition service: activated
received from doctor: “A heart can be made to contract”
received from scribe: “A cryogenic circuit can be restored”
received from specialist: “An existing neural pattern can sometimes be transferred”
received from biologist: “Some organs can be replaced”

received from sir: “Then death consists of failed functions”
received from doctor: “Death is a state of an organism”
received from sir: “Name the function”
received from doctor after a 4.7-second pause: “Time”
received from sir: “Name the organ that produces time and the instrument for replacing it”

doctor acoustic classification: short LAUGHTER; probable function FATIGUE or REFUSAL_TO_ARGUE
received from doctor: “Ada, tell him the dead do not return”

source-check service: activated
requested conclusion: human consensus
provided raw evidence: absent
conflict with owner objective: probable
speech-output service: activated
ADA output: “Specify the criterion of return”

received from doctor: “That is why the two of you found each other”
statement type: causal relation
ADA confidence: low
action: phrase retained; subsequent authority unchanged
[INPUT/ROUTE_TO_BODY]
observed purchases: preservatives, synthetic blood, Institute interfaces, small servos, neural-stimulation equipment, cryogenic pumps
compatible objectives: restore living human | create synth | preserve corpse for an extended period
uncertainty resolved: direct sir order after 27 days

speech-recognition service: activated
received: “Load everything. Route: Vault 111”
routing service: activated
referent SHAUN: high probability of relation; available body absent
new referent NORA: higher probability of relation; body coordinates asserted by sir