i would like to know how to go about resetting the topic to something i specify any time someone tries to change it.

im assuming it would be a raw event, which im not familiar with.

probably should have looked over the various events before i posted
sorry for wasting ur time

No need to apologise, it was my pleasure.

slight addition

on !@*:topic:#channel:{
topic $chan %topic
}

That's true, you wouldn't want to automatically change the topic when you was the one changing the topic in the first place now, would you? Didn't think so..

How about this...

on @*:Topic:#channel:{
if ($nick = $me) { set %topic $1- }
else { topic $chan %topic }
}

Stores your change to the topic or returns topic to what you last set it to.