Okay, so, because I’m not clear on what you’re trying: First: don’t use *if or subroutines to *create variables. *create commands should all go in the top of the startup file. *create, *scene_list, *title, *author, and *achievement are all Initial Commands. One any other command is used, those commands are permanently closed with only *comment being a special case. (This is bug prevention.)
Second, I think you should look at this: