Some reason, after putting through an if statement, my property for startroom (detectiveReady) which is set to nil, won’t set to true.
This is prevented from a compiler error (using TADS 2 compiler) showing that line 13 is unknown and has no error message file.
By default, the assignment operator in TADS 2 is :=. = is the equality operator. To use C-style operators (= for assignment and == for equality), see: https://tads.org/t2doc/doc/tads-8.html#c-style
bravo, it works finally 
looks like I got this licked thanks to you. 
