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Goto Lines

Goto lines simply jump the execution of the dialogue to another line, and dialogue continues from there.

If you need to come back to this location again afterwards, see the Gosub statement.

[goto SomeOtherPlace]

If you prefer, you can also use go to instead of goto.

In this case we'd jump to a label called SomeOtherPlace. Of course, you need to define the location of this label, which you do with...

Label Lines

Label lines start with a colon (:), and any sequence of alphanumeric characters or underscores (importantly, no dashes or other symbols).

:SomeOtherPlace

Labels are case insensitive so you could just as validly jump to the above label using:

[goto someotherplace]

Ending a dialogue

Using end as a target for a goto always terminates the dialogue:

[goto end]

Unsurprisingly, you cannot define your own label called end for this reason.

Gotos And Labels Between Speaker Lines And Choices

When we talked about choices and their relationship to speaker lines we mentioned that choices have to follow a speaker line, because they represent the branching paths from that line.

It's valid to use a goto to make this connection though, for example:

NPC: Well hello
    :choices
    * Choice 1
      NPC: Some response
      [goto choices]
    * Choice 2
      NPC: Some other response
      [goto choices]
    * Leave
      [goto end]

Because the label is between the original entry text "Well hello" and the choices, you can send other points of the dialogue back to this point after a new speaker line to re-use the same choices as a follow on from those lines, including doing looping as above, without repeating that "Well hello" line (which would happen if you put the :choices label above it).

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