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Instability Reference

A player-facing guide to recognizing and responding to reality instability.

Stability States

Stable

The environment behaves consistently. Ordinary travel and magic function as expected.

Unstable

The environment produces contradictory details, repeated events, shifting distances, unusual magical responses, or changes in memory.

Confluence

Several possible versions of a place or event overlap. More than one outcome may appear true at the same time.

Warning Signs

  • Repeated landmarks.
  • Reflections containing incorrect details.
  • Written names changing.
  • Time passing at inconsistent rates.
  • Familiar spaces having new dimensions.
  • People remembering incompatible events.
  • A phrase being heard in several languages at once.

Practical Response

  1. Stop moving.
  2. Record what each person observes separately.
  3. Compare memories.
  4. Mark the current location.
  5. Avoid splitting the group.
  6. Do not assume the most familiar version is automatically correct.