<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=200833.msg9932868#msg9932868">Quote from: auroraChloe on 03-05-2014, 05:21:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>i can handle a couple of days difference with tags, maybe... but much more than that and i imagine that things get lost.<br/>say i skip ahead for a scene and then go back to an earlier date for a scene and something impactful happens on the earlier date that was rp'd 2nd.  now i've not been able to use the info for the later date that was rp'd 1st.  have i achieved total confusion yet?   :P<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Which is part of the reason we're having the big arc things happen all in the second week, so we don't run into the paradox of in-character knowledge.  There's a few ways to deal with it - one is to head off having someone hand your character IC knowledge you know she doesn't possess later.  If you have an encounter of some kind you think is going to arm your character with knowledge you're not expecting - ask your partner to rewrite, or arrange some kind of interrupt before it happens.  If both scenes are happening concurrently, its possible to have a character express some doubts about what they've just learned.  Obviously this isn't appropriate for everything, but the knowledge paradox is just something to be wary of.  It's part of the reason we've got an open market for people to play NPCs, if they've got a writing bug and someone they want to write with is in a different scene, etc.  By and large... we trust our players to handle it responsibly, and I much prefer giving players a blank check and the option to write multiple scenes - though its by no means a requirement.