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So I tried and Im still having problems.  When I enter the room it still wont display the text I want it to. 
I created the Global Var.  Failure as an int and set it to 0

Button Script:
function altercation_OnClick(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button)
{
  gBlackdog.Visible = false;
  Wait (10);
  Failure=1;
  cHawkins.ChangeRoom (6, 1222, 1648); 
}


Then my room script:

function room_AfterFadeIn(){
if (Failure == 1) { 
  Display (" Black Dog runs Captain Billy Bones through with his blade and runs out of the Admiral Benbow off down the road.  Your journey never had a chance to even start.  With the death of your father you end up working the rest of your life at the Admiral Benbow.");
  Failure=0;
}
}

Its not displaying anything.  I even tried to make it a textural overlay but still nothing appears on the screen.

Thanks!  I dont know why I didnt think of that.  I for some reason was thinking I had to use the if to state that if the button was pushed. >.< the global variable makes total sense.  I appreciate it

I am working on a game for my class Art for games.  And this is my first try at scripting and the video tutorials were a GREAT help!  In fact I hope more come along. 
But I have become stuck on execution of one idea.
I tried going through the tutorials and what not but I couldnt find help

So as the game is played you have options to choose through GUI buttons.
Now I have set up a Game over room for the wrong answer. 
I have no problem with the changing of rooms to the game over room.
But I wanted to use a "display" thread stating what happened to get the game over due to your decision.
So I tried using this;

function altercation_OnClick(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button)
{
  gBlackdog.Visible = false;
  Wait (10);
  cHawkins.ChangeRoom (6, 1222, 1648);
  Display (" Black Dog runs Captain Billy Bones through with his blade and runs out of the Admiral Benbow off down the road.  Your journey never had a chance to even start.  With the death of your father you end up working the rest of your life at the Admiral Benbow.");

the problem as you can imagine is the display text happens before the change room.

So I  figured I had to create an If statement inside of the Game Over room for each button that will take you there.
How would I go about scripting the if statement for the click of a gui button so when it changes to the Game Over screen  It displays the text I want?  Because I will be using this screen throughout the whole game I dont want to just use a Display command as you enter the room cause the display will be different depending on which path the player takes to get there.