[strugglegenerator]

Thank you for posting this! It works!!! I was basing my event_proximity_say off the Event Subroutines example in the Quest API of Gitbook. This is what the example that I used has:

sub EVENT_SPAWN {
    #:: Create a proximity, 100 units across, 100 units tall, enable proximity say
    quest::set_proximity($x - 50, $x + 50, $y - 50, $y + 50, $z - 50, $z + 50, 1);
}

sub EVENT_PROXIMITY_SAY {
    #:: Match say message for "hail", /i for case insensitive
    if ($text=~/hail/i) {
        quest::say("Hello, $name!");
    }
}

However, in the code from Grand_Historian_Thoridain that you posted, I see a major difference:

quest::enable_proximity_say();

Looks like the example script on Gitbook just forget to add that important line of code, so that proximity say was never enabled. Thank you for pointing this out!!! What a huge waste of time LOL