Yeah, that would be more of a minor programming project than an RPG Maker one.
I suggest getting QBASIC 4.5 and playing around with it. It's a rather simple language (rather fitting that it's called BASIC). You can really do some neat stuff with it if you want to, but stick to RPG Maker if you just want an RPG.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~twotowe...tware/qb45.zip
Extract it to C:\QBASIC\ . All the files will then be in C:\QBASIC\qb45\ , so run QB.exe to start it up. (Don't change the location, because DOS based programs don't like that.) Yeah, it's DOS based, but then again you can just write programs in Notepad (save them with a .bas extension) and import them if you don't like working within the DOS window.
I attached Lenny.zip, which contains Lenny.bas and Lenny.exe. If you don't want to download QBASIC first, you can just look at Lenny.bas in Notepad and see the result within the EXE (obviously, since the EXE is complied it doesn't rely on the Lenny.bas anymore, so no changes can be made).