Back in Oblivion it was easy to force an NPC to start a conversation at a given stage. What I want to do is every 24 hours have the companion approach the player and say a line of dialog. Something like this;

If 24 hours have passed
StartConversation player, Stage10Topic

What's the Papyrus equal to this? I can't seem to find anything in the language references. The old wiki was a lot better. Any help appreciated.

You want to make a ForceGreet AI package and apply appropriate conditions to it, so it runs every 24h, and assign it to your NPC.

http://www.creationkit.com/ForceGreet_(Package_Template)
http://www.creationkit.com/ForceGreet_(Procedure)

Well the problem of doing it that way is that this is a companion that will always be with the player. The other problem is that there are over 80 stages in the romance quest. I'm think of something like the Say procedure but I have no code samples and this is the first script I've ever written.

Something like this?

Event Stage20Event()	    If GameDay.GetValueInt() > iGameDay ; It is the next day   	 aaViconiaRef.Say Stage20Topic Player   EndIfEndEvent

I fail to see the problem here. Make an AI package.

Though remember, the dialogue bug might cause the package to not run.

I guess I'm just overwhelmed with the changes in the scripting. Everything has changed so drastically I feel like a two year old because I used to have this stuff down and now with Skyrim I'm a 1 zillion percent noob. I need to actually see an example in front of me to get me started I guess. I'm that lost. The tutorials are fine but none do what I want to do, which is simply; there are 80+ stages, at the beginning of each stage the follower goes to the player and blurts out a line that starts the series of dialog topics. The stage then advances and 24 hours later the next stage fires.

I think I figured out an easier way around this. I can simply create a hello topic for every quest stage. I should be able to get it to link properly to the other dialogs at that point. I don't like doing it this way but if it works, it works. I guess I'll see.

I'm trying to add the ForceGreet package to the NPC's Package AI tab. I right click and add the right package but it doesn't appear in the list. Help!

Here is an image of the package in question:

http://www.4shared.com/photo/o5bnQmUX/Package.html

I fixed it. I had a quest assigned to the package.