Is it possible to store multiple actor references with getself?

If I set NPC1 to getself

Can I set npc2 to getself or will npc1 be overridden?

I think I had trouble with storing multiple references before but I'm not entirely sure that was it. I just want to be sure that it isn't going to be a problem. If you can't store multiple references is there a workaround for it?

You should be able to store multiple references, yes.

But you have to consider WHERE you store them.

If you want to store multiple refs, you must have multiple places to store them, of course.

Ok, I think I understand, let me run this by you real fast.

If I have a script that gets an actors references and stores in another script that has already used getself to store an actor reference, can both those references exist in the same script if they're stored as npc1 and npc2?

If by npc1 and npc2 you mean that the holding scrip has two ref vars named npc1 and npc2, the answer is yes, you may store as many different references (or FormIDs) as you have ref vars to hold them.

Getself is just one of the many ways to fill those ref vars, btw.

really? What are some other ways?

Any function that returns a reference FormID, like GetFirstRef/GetNextRef, PlaceAtMe, and GetCrosshairRef.
Other functions return other kinds of FormIDs, like GetBaseObject, GetParentCell and GetHorse