# Keep the scene in scene Source: https://lunafic.ai/docs/in-scene-and-memory | Published: 2026-09-22T06:06:21.987Z | Updated: 2026-11-08T13:49:48.339Z | Author: Lunafic Team | Tags: Memory and AI > How In this scene works, what belongs in a note, and a short routine for long stories. Long stories fail in two ways. The AI forgets and the story drifts, or the AI knows too much and a character answers a question they never heard. A few small tools manage both. ## In this scene The In this scene row above the reply line shows who is on stage. Open the row to pick who is present. Changes apply from your next reply. Characters who appear out of nowhere are the problem this row solves. If someone should be in the room, put them on stage. If they left, take them off. Tap a character in the list, past the tick, to open their card. The card shows how they are in this story, what they call people, and a link to their Wiki page. ## Dead or gone When a character dies or leaves the story for good, the AI marks it and takes them off stage. They stay out of every scene after that, and the AI knows they are gone, so nobody comes back to life by accident. A short line above the reply box tells you when it happens. If the AI got it wrong, or the story brings them back, tap Bring back there or in the In this scene list. ## Status Some worlds keep a few values for their characters, like trust or health. The world's author picks them. When a reply shows one of them change, a small marker appears in the story right where it happened, and sometimes a status window shows the whole picture, like when you check how hurt you are. Most replies change nothing. - See them. **The In this scene list shows the first values next to each character. Tap a character for all of them.** - Change them. **On the card, press Change. Your change wins, and the AI reads it from your next reply.** - Undo. **Each value shows its last change, with Undo.** - Bring them over. **Bring over from another story copies the values from another of your stories of the same world.** Every story keeps its own values. The Wiki stays as its author wrote it, and the Status on a Wiki page says which story it comes from. ## Notes are for unwritten canon A note is for something true in the story that exists nowhere on the page yet. - A good note. **The innkeeper is my character's aunt. You decided it, and the page never said it.** - A bad note. **They fought in chapter 4. The chapter already says so, and the memory already holds it.** ## Fix voices in the Wiki When the AI plays a character wrong, the habit is to add a note saying play her sharper. A note fixes one reply. The voice lives in the character panels, so fix it there and every future scene improves. ## Keep your character inside what they know The AI plays what your character knows. If you narrate things your character cannot know, the AI may use them too. Write what your character notices. ## A short routine - Add one note. **Only if the chapter earned one.** - If a reply felt off. **Open the Memory dialog and fix the wrong line there.** --- Read this on Lunafic: https://lunafic.ai/docs/in-scene-and-memory More from Lunafic: https://lunafic.ai/docs What is Lunafic: https://lunafic.ai/ai-roleplay AI characters you build stories with over long memories. You play as your character, the AI plays everyone else, and stories stay private by default.