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the message that the maggot said got passed into my character as i aproched him , and the message just didnt dissapear from on top of my head.

That's the plague status effect. It spreads to nearby beings.

Jup. It's not a bug - it's a feature. Just a proof of concept, of course. The final content will of course not have such annoying and useless status effect scripts.