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[RMXP] Making an Earthbound/Undertale hybrid "Spare/Act" system

(If you frequent Reddit you may have seen this already. I'm posting this 4 minutes after that post in an attempt to hopefully get more help.)

I've been doing some digging over the last week or so, and the result of that digging is *close* to what I'm wanting, but still not perfect.
I am planning on making it more complex later when this basic version is functional.

Essentially, what I am trying to make is an "Act" skill that puts the enemy into a "Spareable" state; it is supposed to show text (for sake of simplicity, "Success" if it worked or "Failure" if it didn't) to describe how the attempt went. It is a one-enemy focused skill, not all at once.

The problem with my current set up is that whenever the "Act" skill is used (on Enemy 1, for example), it displays the "Failure" text for all enemies currently in the troop, even if they were not the target.

I'm linking to Imgur to show two ways I've gotten to this point, my older attempt I made entirely alone and a newer one that was inspired by a "Scan" ability script.

Old: https://imgur.com/a/6fZrHkX
New/current: https://imgur.com/a/mz5PKTm

(I'm calling this a "Hybrid" system because the flavor text for "success" or "failure" I'm wanting to make similar to the Mother series' text ("Example is thinking about life")-type stuff.

It doesn't have to be super pretty, but I'm making a fangame mostly for my fiance to play, and I want it to work as I'm hoping.
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