I'm trying to script my game so when you pick up this one newspaper for the first time, it delivers a text and gets added to your inventory. But if you drop it and pick it up again it just says "taken". I've gotten it for the most part but when I type in the command to pick up the newspaper while I'm in another room, it still get's added to my inventory and shows the text for the first time you pick it up - even though I set it so the object has to be in reach to pick up. It's becoming a big mess and hurting my poor fragile brain so I'm slowly becoming more stupid because of it.

Possibly, you have set inventory to run a script and made that script 'first time' , (message and take object, ) and not put take object in the 'else' option. This would mean that you never dropped it .

I'm confuzzeled.

In the "take" script, after giving the message, and moving the item to the inventory, have it set the "take" attribute of the newspaper to null.

this.take = null

This will delete the script, so the next time it will just do the default action for taking.

Never mind I found an extremely simple way to do it haha. Thanks matey.

there's also:

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/scripts/firsttime.html

though, you'd have to implement this into the default 'take' Verb/Command

Does over-writing/riding 'take', wipe out all of it's built-in functionality or just its local scripting?