kirerellim

i'm trying to understand the scripting of Skyrim, I really am. But it just seems so backwards! I'm trying to make a weapon (as a small start to a larger project) that copies things it hits. However, I can't even figure out how to make a script, using the functions in weapon, that can identify what it hits, because everything seems to be internal. I can tell what 'I' (the weapon) is but not what anything outside of the weapon is. Am I missing something vitally important?