Hi all!

At the moment I have one room that displays the description right away, followed by a scripted message that appears after 7 seconds, and another 2 seconds after that.

The problem I have is that every time I type "l" or "look", the scripted messages show again, which I don't want. I just want the scripted messages to appear once at the 7 and 9 second mark and let the player re-look the room without those messages.

Does anyone know the solution to this?
Thanks in advance.

Perhaps the easiest way will be to print the room description and then call a firsttime script for the other stuff.

http://quest5.net/wiki/Firsttime

You'll want to be careful that the player won't enter the room and immediately leave though. That might screw up the timing.

That's fine - the first room is a harbor and the timed message is simply the sound/s of the ship leaving the harbor. If the player leaves before the message it makes sense since he won't hear the ship.

Thanks george.