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Gosicrystal Since: Jun, 2016
26th Aug, 2016 05:06:13 PM

Bump. If no one gets it, I'm gonna give an example from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: you go to the Sandship, open a chest and get the key that was inside. Next you go to the past (hundreds of years earlier) and the chest is inexplicably open and empty.

Scorpion451 Since: Jan, 2013
27th Aug, 2016 07:42:24 AM

That's the Timey-Wimey Ball preventing an Object Loop class Temporal Paradox- you can't take it from the chest in the past because it wouldn't be there for you to have taken in the future.

If it's Justified, the chests might contain a Place Beyond Time for holding important items, or it could be that future you hasn't come back and put the item in the chest for past you to have found later yet.

Edited by Scorpion451
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