Function breaks whole script

[Foxxive (Vinny)]

Hi, I have an NPC enemy who, upon spotting a player, plays a sound and chases them if the player is in their line of sight. I added a function to play an individual sound and added a debounce/cooldown to this function so the sound would not loop over and over if the player was in his line of sight (it’s loud)

This is the code I wrote:

local function roar()
	local roar = script.Parent.Head.Roar
	
	if debounce then return end
	debounce = true
	roar:Play()
	roar.Ended:Wait(5)
	debounce = false
end

And as it turns out, this breaks his behaviour. He waits 5 seconds and chases again until I get out of his line of sight. I don’t want the whole code to break and I know the debounce has something to do with it, I just don’t know what I can do to stop this behaviour.

If it helps,

This is the function the other function is used in

local function findTarget()
	local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
	local maxDistance = 100
	local nearestTarget
	local shockSound = script.Parent.Head.Shock
	
	for index, player in pairs(players) do
		if player.Character then
			local target = player.Character
			local distance = (xan.HumanoidRootPart.Position - target.HumanoidRootPart.Position).Magnitude
			
			if distance < maxDistance and canSeeTarget(target) then
				humanoid.WalkSpeed = 21
				nearestTarget = target
				maxDistance = distance
				shockSound:Play()
				roar()
			else
				humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
			end
		end
	end
	
	return nearestTarget
end

I should also mention, the whole thing works fine. The only thing that isn’t supposed to happen is the enemy stopping for 5 seconds then continuing

Any help is appreciated!

Say hi to Xan

[diagrammatized]

local function roar()
	local roar = script.Parent.Head.Roar

	if debounce then return end
	debounce = true
	roar:Play()

	
	task.wait(5)
	debounce = false
end

[SelfDeclared]

Just replace

roar()

with

task.spawn(roar)