What the heck happened?

[Gnomad]

You sense that the ritual is complete and lower your hands. The flame beneath the cauldron quietly goes out. You note that the solution in the cauldron has condensed into a rich potion.

You reach into the cauldron and fill your flask.

[You have 1 repetition remaining.]

R>put acantha in my cloak

>light cauldron
You put a tincture of acantha in your all-weather cloak.
R>
...wait 1 seconds.

What happened there? Why did the potion go away fine but the cauldron not light? I've never seen that kind of error before.

[trundle]

Seems to have something to do with timing, specifically, the amount of time it takes one to stow an item - usually not much. I am not all savvy on the mechanics, yet I also experienced similar glitches in same situation.
To remedy, I added a pause 1 or 2 (depending) line following the line where I stowed something.

Put stow right
pause 1
goto start

Alternatively, one could add the pause to the beginning of the next "verse"

START:
put pause 1
put light cauldron
waitfor You focus
put get water

Conversely, one can put a waitfor command after the stow line:

Put stow right
waitfor You put
goto start

Yes it's a little extra work and it does add length to the script on the whole but it does ensure against annoyances like the one you describe.

[Ausek]

I've noticed this several times when I started my fletching scripts. I usually add two 'pause 1' lines or a 'waitfor' command and haven't had another problem yet. It didn't happen the first or second arrow; usually started after that and at infrequent intervals. I don't know if theres an in-game mechanic to prevent afk-scripting, but this leads me to that assumption.

[Stanley Burrell]

You sense that the ritual is complete and lower your hands. The flame beneath the cauldron quietly goes out. You note that the solution in the cauldron has condensed into a rich potion.

You reach into the cauldron and fill your flask.

[You have 1 repetition remaining.]

R>put acantha in my cloak

>light cauldron
You put a tincture of acantha in your all-weather cloak.
R>
...wait 1 seconds.

What happened there? Why did the potion go away fine but the cauldron not light? I've never seen that kind of error before.

You incurred a second of roundtime for generic script-checking for your light cauldron command.

It's the part where you incurred a second of roundtime for generic script-checking for your light cauldron command.

Also, furries.