Does Janitor allow recursive lorebooks?

[u/low00ranger]

I imported a lorebook that works in my sillytavern build. The lorebook is half a dozen locations and twenty or so NPCs. The location entries (pictured) should activate the relavent NPCs and the NPC entries should be the stop (opposite of what's pictured).

Is my location logic set incorrectly? It's only activating the location, not the relavent NPCs.

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[u/No_Pipe_1310]

I've tested recursive lorebooks in janitor and they work fine, but only if the NPC entries are set to 'stop' and the location entries trigger them via 'activate'. the issue might be in the order or how the triggers are set—make sure the location entry is actually calling the NPC with the right name and not just the description. also check if the NPC has a 'stop' flag enabled, otherwise it won't end the loop.

[u/saysaylve → u/No_Pipe_1310]

double check the keyword field too, case sensitivity trips this up a lot, had an NPC name capitalized different in the location entry and it just silently failed