Question Trigger Help - OBJ checking to see if actor has a specific follower.

I created a spirit guide to follow newbies around and the actor can summon and banish it at will with an orb in their inventory. The trouble I am having is how to see if the spirit is already summoned and following the actor.

Here is a basic version of the trigger for summoning:

I removed all of the waits and action text to simplify it for this single purpose. So big question. Can an object determine whether this spirit is already following the actor? The vnum of the spirit is 14111.

There's a variable to cover that.

help CHAR-VARS TRIGEDIT-VARIABLES-CHARACTERS
The following fields can be used with %actor%. i.e. %actor.<field>%
Excluding the subfield () returns the value. Adding a subfield adjusts it.
Field - variable returns:
follower(name) - The follower of the actor (as an id) with name supplied.

You might also consider setting a global, if the spirit is flagged nokill.
tstat 1471 for an example of a global in general, not specific to this case.

That worked. Thanks! I wasn't sure about the (name) vs a vnum. I was trying with a vnum at first but I guess it only takes letter characters.

edit. Have some Karma and a Thank you