I am attempting to make powers the player can use to command a follower. I have not gotten to the stage where I have tested any of my work, because my computer is a toaster and this makes testing very time consuming, so I figure I'd ask for advice first. I'm not sure I'm going about this the right way.

The original thought process was that a spell cast by the player would place an effect on the follower, and a script on the follower would recognize the effect as it is applied, and then run an appropriate "commanded" function.

Here's how it came out, though:

I have a spell with a magic effect with a script that upon casting of the spell the magic effect applies to the player and the script runs to cast a spell on the follower that puts a magic effect on her. This already seems needlessly complicated. Then I have this script.

Event OnMagicEffectApply(ObjectReference akCaster, MagicEffect akEffect)    If(akEffect == SuperMoveEffect)        StarStorm.cast(Andromeda, Andromeda)    EndIfEndEvent