wait

Prototypevoid wait(int period)

wait() will cause the current script to pause at least period milliseconds before continuing.

It is not uncommon to include a short wait after every say_stop() in a conversation, for example, to slow it down a little and make it more realistic.

As the engine only executes one script at a time, setting a period of 1 millisecond will cause the script to 'yield the floor', allowing other scripts to execute, brains to think, and other actions to take place.