Xindaris
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Not so much a bug as some missing documentation. In the ingame help's list of commands, "Start Global Script" doesn't seem to be listed at all.

At first it might seem like it should be self-explanatory: Running this command starts one of the global characters' scripts. But I didn't know, while designing a hold recently, that it starts that script globally, as in apparently puts an invisible character running that script in every room after the "Start Global Script [whatever]" command happens in any room. This led to some confusing behavior where the character's script happened twice because I didn't know it could do that.

I can fix the issue in my hold now that I know why it happened, but I feel like it would be helpful to explicitly say it does this in the documentation. Also, possibly information about "where" the "global script" character gets put in all future rooms, as that could potentially be important.

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mrimer
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Sorry for the missing documentation. Makes sense. We'll add it.

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mrimer
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Hmm...looking at script.html, I see "Start global script" after "Generate entity" and before "Display filter". Are you talking about a different page in the docs?

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Xindaris
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It's there. I think I must have just missed it, but I don't see how I did. Terribly sorry about that.

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mrimer
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Not a problem! Thanks for confirming it's there.

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Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.