As you've only been doing it a couple of days, you won't lose much if you swap to RM2K3 - solely for the reason that you can do the things in it that you can't in RMXP.
Otherwise, you could have the first event end with turning a switch on, whilst the second switch (as a parallel process) contains a conditional branch that has the main event in the "If:" branch - if switch[0001] = ON.
Thank you muchly! That was quite aggravating. I would switch back to RM2K3, but It lacks certain tools that I need to complete this game in my head.
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