I asked for help on a separate issue but I decided I’d reach out about both to try my luck. Essentially, I tried to use true/false variables so that it’s not until the reader gets to a certain in the story that a bit of text appears in the stats.
The way I attempted to do this was:
In my startup scene
*create mourning_song true
Then in my prologue:
*set mourning_song true
And in my stats to initiate:
*if (mourning_song)
[story text]
But it didn’t work. The story text appears before you get to that point in my story.
I really don’t know where I’m going wrong, please help! Thank you 
When you create the variable in the startup scene, you need to create it as false instead of true. Like this:
*create mourning_song false
Long-ish explanation
You can *create variables at any value that you want (either in the startup scene or using the *temp command elsewhere.) This goes for true/false, numerical values, and even the retrievable "text" variables.
However, whatever they are when you first *create/*temp them will be their default state until you change it with a *set command.
So your mourning_song variable is reading as true by default because that’s how you created it; meaning your *set true command in the prologue doesn’t change anything. That’s also why your stats page is always displaying it. Because it’s never set false.
I saw your other post and I would guess that you’re having the same problem with the *temp values as well, but it’s hard to say for sure without seeing more of the code or knowing what kind of errors your encountering.
Anyway, ‘mourning song’ is a pretty epic variable name! And I hope this helps!
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Thank you so much, this worked perfectly! I was genuinely losing hope before, now the answer seemed so simple all along haha!! Very grateful <3
Also, I have yet to tackle my other dilemma, but I will try now with all the help I’ve been getting
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Happy to help! And to hear that you’re not giving up. The forum is a great place to look around for answers!
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