Chapter 7 sample: The archive had one iron door, and the guard held the only key.
The escape stakes depend on one known exit.
Location continuity
Sample report: room layout continuity
A sample report showing how a room layout can change after revisions and create action-scene confusion.
Scenario
What the sample checks
A tense scene depends on a locked single exit, but a later chapter adds a side door to the same room.
Detected issue
The manuscript describes the archive as having one door during an escape sequence, then later mentions a second side door without explaining whether it was hidden, added, or overlooked.
Evidence
Passages a report would point back to
Good continuity findings need source evidence. These sample passages show the kind of contrast an author reviews.
Chapter 21 sample: Lena waited by the archive's side door and watched the courtyard.
A later side door changes the physical logic of the earlier scene.
Report shape
How the author can act on it
The goal is a reviewable decision, not automatic rewriting.
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Likely continuity risk
The room layout may have changed during revision without a corresponding update to the earlier scene.
02
Author decision
The side door can be removed, hidden, newly built, locked from outside, or acknowledged in the earlier escape scene.
03
Downstream check
Review entrances, exits, sightlines, guard positions, and object placement in every archive scene.
Review
Suggested author review
These are the practical follow-up moves the sample report points toward.
- Pick the canonical archive layout.
- Update escape-scene stakes to match that layout.
- Check later references to sightlines and courtyard access.
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