As Mr V says, your primary problem is the need for a goto or similar command if you’re going to use *else. (You could use a bunch of *ifs without needing a *goto, but as soon as elseif or else come into it, or if it follows a *choice, ChoiceScript wants you to tell it what to do).
As for the parenthesis requirements for 3+ conditions, I talked about it in posts 8 and 11 of this thread:
