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# On Avatar Spawn

<pre class="language-lua"><code class="lang-lua">function yourEvent(user)
<strong>    log(user.displayName .. ' has spawned!');
</strong>end

return function()
    addEvent('spawn', 'yourEvent'); --attaches the event to yourEvent()
    keepAlive();
end
</code></pre>

{% hint style="info" %}
Events are asynchronous coroutines.
{% endhint %}