Thank you very much that's super helpful - making sure I don't waste time learning to do things the wrong way. I've done a few tutorials today including the quest creation one so getting a tiny miniscule handle on how some of this works based on adding a state to Gorion, which I think would allow me to do the other aspect of what I'm hoping.
One more question on STRING_SET. I went through Imoen4Forever and found where STRING_SET was used and saw what it's replacing in Near Infinity. I think I understand in principle and this would let me do most of what I want for sure. Between the commands you provided me and this I think I can apply if where I want.
However, some of the lines I'm looking to change are voiced. And I noticed the one above from your mod is voiced as well via NearInfinity. Does STRING_SET remove association to the attached audio? I was having a look at a couple of voiced NPC mods and I saw the bit at the end in square brackets seems to be the audio attachment. If I leave this blank on the replacement line then would it remove the audio? And if I had an altered audio could I add it to the end?
@15 = ~I'm curious about something, Cernd. You're a servant of nature, but more than that, you're a servant of balance, right?~ [g#trsx03]