Places and important objects

Where people and objects are, how they move and what stays consistent.

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• You're losing track of where your characters are

  The last reliable position is uncertain; a known journey that cannot fit is a different problem.

• A character's movement between places doesn't make sense

  A known movement must be possible given its route and interval; uncertain whereabouts should be resolved first.

• A location has changed without you meaning it to

  The established place itself appears inconsistent, rather than a journey through it being implausible.

• You've lost track of an important object

  The object's last reliable position or holder is uncertain, rather than a known history contradicting itself.

• A character has an object they shouldn't have

  A particular person's access to an object is unsupported, rather than its general whereabouts being unknown.

• An object's history contradicts itself

  The recorded sequence of object states conflicts; a missing location alone is not the same problem.