Okay, that makes sense. I had not yet written the room with the lever into the game, but I wanted to test the ability to go through the door if it *had* been pulled. All I had written in the room with the lever was "s lever = 0". I was seeing if I could change that variable from the initial room; thanks for clarifying that I cannot. (As a side-note: the method I can use is *much* more efficient that what I was going to try). Thank you :)