CONFLICT THESAURUS

LOSING ACCESS TO SOMETHING IMPORTANT



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Conflict is your story’s secret sauce, supplying tension, friction, and complications to a character’s journey. It comes in a million different forms, so identify the obstacles and problems that will hit your character the hardest by using the Character Builder to uncover their primary insecurities, fears , and desires. Don’t forget to include everyday conflict scenarios that will frustrate them and keep the pressure high.
CATEGORY:
Losing an advantage, loss of control, duty and responsibility, increased pressure and ticking clocks

EXAMPLES:
Being unable to access a resource, database, or password-protected application
The character's finances being frozen
Communication channels becoming inaccessible
Not being able to open a safe or vault
Losing access to a key, cipher, or translation code
Not being able to access roads or critical travel routes
The character's utilities being shut off
A car or boat being repossessed
Losing access to camera footage or critical evidence
Being locked out of a social media account
The character losing access to their home or office because it's an active crime scene
A credit card being locked
A character's backup file being corrupted, resulting in lost work or information

MINOR COMPLICATIONS:
Discovering someone has reset a critical password
Having to search a site for customer support or contact information
Having to contact a site's administrators for access
The character being unable to monitor their finances or pay bills remotely
Needing to create a backup plan
Being unable to pay for a lunch because a credit card is rejected
Having to find an alternate route or mode of transportation
Having to ask someone for help
Needing to borrow a replacement item from someone else
Being unable to get to personal belongings 
Needing to request a new password, key, identification card, etc.
Having to ask to see a manager or someone in authority
Redeveloping a cipher, translation code, key, etc.
Establishing communication in a different, less convenient way
Wasting time while waiting for access to be re-established

POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS RESULTS:
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POSSIBLE INTERNAL STRUGGLES:
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PEOPLE WHO COULD BE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED:
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NEGATIVE TRAITS THAT COULD MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE:
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IMPACT ON BASIC NEEDS:
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WOUNDS THIS COULD LEAD TO:
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POSITIVE TRAITS TO HELP THE CHARACTER COPE:
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POSITIVE OUTCOMES:
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