Diagonal movement in rm2k

[DaAlmightyWombat]

I tried using a parallel common event that saves password into two sepearate variables, ie if the one variable was 1 (down) and the other was 2 (left), then move the hero down-left, but it didn't work. Is my coding just crappy, or is it possible at all to do diagonal movement in rm2k? (I believe I've heard that it only registers a single key press at a time)