In-game scripting and what should be done

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Dubious Drewski

I'm currently giving my game the ability to read scripts
from a file during runtime, then execute them. This will be
used for cutscenes, etc. The script will activate events
which are hard-coded into the program. Events will tell a
character to go here or say this or kill that, etc. I have
almost completely fleshed out the system on paper, but
one question remains. How do I write these events into
the program?

Currently, the only system I can come up with is:


Repeat
	If event[1] = ACTIVE Then
		doSomething()
	EndIf
	If event[2] = ACTIVE Then
		doSomethingElse()
	EndIf
Forever

And Then have functions that correspond To them:

Function doSomething()
	make main character walk over there
EndFunction
	
Function doSomethingElse()
	turn the snow level And windspeed up
EndFunction

This is such a hack-job and I hate having to do it like this,
but I don't know how not to have events hard-coded.

Is this the sort of thing that Lua handles well? I'm
completely unfamiliar with it at the moment.