From d5ec33878242559f30c0cf295c9bf765381f477f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Borwick <john_borwick@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:26:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Task needs to be started if pause() was previously called

---
 evennia/scripts/scripts.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/evennia/scripts/scripts.py b/evennia/scripts/scripts.py
index 75c9074ad4..b45ac2a0ee 100644
--- a/evennia/scripts/scripts.py
+++ b/evennia/scripts/scripts.py
@@ -162,9 +162,8 @@ class ScriptBase(ScriptDB, metaclass=TypeclassBase):
         Start task runner.
 
         """
-        if self.ndb._task:
-            return
-        self.ndb._task = ExtendedLoopingCall(self._step_task)
+        if not self.ndb._task:
+            self.ndb._task = ExtendedLoopingCall(self._step_task)
 
         if self.db._paused_time:
             # the script was paused; restarting