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title: Location Relationships
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category: Locations
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tags: locations, relationships, movement, sightlines
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contextKey: locations.relationships
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micro: Describe how places connect, whether characters can move, see or hear between them.
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quickTitle: What are Location Relationships?
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quickSummary: Location Relationships capture useful spatial connections such as nearby rooms, routes, sightlines and sound paths.
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# Overview
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Location Relationships describe how places connect to each other. They can represent direct travel, visibility, sound, adjacency or other spatial logic that affects what can happen in a scene.
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# When Should I Use This?
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Use them when the physical relationship between places affects plot or continuity. They are especially helpful for overheard conversations, locked rooms, chase sequences and hidden movement.
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# How To Use It
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Choose the related location, relationship type and any relevant flags such as bidirectional travel, hearing or visibility. Add notes for exceptions, barriers or story-specific constraints.
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# Example
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The Landing may connect to the Blue Bedroom and allow loud noise to be heard through the door, but not normal speech. That detail can matter during a suspense scene.
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# Writer Tip
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Think like a reader reconstructing the space. If a later twist depends on where someone could go or what they could hear, record it.
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# Common Mistakes
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- Assuming every relationship works both ways.
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- Forgetting sound and sightline differences.
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- Recording atmosphere when the relationship should describe physical logic.
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- Leaving notes vague when a clue depends on the layout.
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# Related Guides
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- [Location Details](/Help/Article/locations.details)
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- [Child Locations](/Help/Article/locations.childLocations)
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- [Warnings](/Help/Article/warnings.overview)
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