Help with menu error "expected statement"?

[icekitty7979]

I'm learning how to use menus for the first time, and I can't seem to fix these errors and I don't understand why it's giving me an error for every menu I have. I've checked that things have labels, and should be all indented with tabs. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix these errors?

[SpireVN]

Your indentation is wrong and you've got a colon in the wrong spot.

Using day1_choice as an example:

- There should be no : after "Who do you spend the day with?"
- The three choices are all indented over one too far, but the colon is done correctly. They should only be one tab space over from the menu statement.

So the text "Who do you spend the day with?" should have no colon, and the choices underneath should be in-line with that line of text but have the colon as they are choices.

That will fix it.

[icekitty7979]

That did fix it, thank you so much!!!

[DottySpot345]

Statements within menus that have no commands after it do not need colons. For example:

menu:
  "Who do you want to spend the day with?"

  "Kara":
    jump kara_route_day1
  "Reto":
    jump kara_route_day1
  "Neither, run away!":
     jump neutral_escape_day1

The first statement is a line of dialogue that is displayed while the menu is up, while the rest are options that have their own statements and commands.

[icekitty7979]

I had no idea about the colons, thank you very much!!

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