help with a really wierd attack

[the mummy]

ok, so I have this idea for an attack and I have been trying to get it to work myself but I just cant get it. the idea was that I would call out a helper character  and they would hold an item that would either heal (ala' Jill's heal assist in mvc2) or kill you .I have two problems;
one, I cant randomize or even pseudo randomize the effect, and two; I cant actually touch the item

not sure what to do about this...

[Bastard Mami]

to randomize the effect, check on the random trigger. it should be something like random%2 =1 for one condition and random%2=0 for the other.

you can't really detect "touching" but what you can do is use the parent dist, or root dist triggers to check if the parent is at an apropiate touching distance.

[the mummy]

so recreate the effect and set it's trigger to detect parent dist, got it.

I was hoping it would be a bit simpler than that, though.

thanks.