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i have an event where an npc climbs out of bed and runs across the room & the protagonist can then go over and talk to them. once they leave the room, an item spawns that is necessary to continue the plot. this event works perfectly if the protagonist stays in the room the whole time, but if she leaves and comes back, the npc is in the bed again with the dialogue for the second part of the event, and because the npc can't move out of the room like they could if the event was happening in the right place, they don't leave and the item doesn't spawn. how can i make sure the npc stays in the right place after the first part of the event even if the protagonist leaves the room?

i noticed an unusual problem on a new map i made where the character is unable to move after being teleported there (she can change directions but can't do any actual moving.) i made sure all the tiles were passable and checked to see if an autorun event was causing the freeze, but even after checking all the events and making sure the right tiles were passable, i still can't fix the problem. i have several other teleports that work just fine, so i'm not sure why this is giving me trouble.

i don't have any trouble editing the lower layer of the maps, but the upper & event layers are completely black. they look like this:




i did manage to blindly put a spawn point in the event layer, but when i test play it, the game itself is a black screen. the title screen loads just fine.

i'm not sure what to do. i've looked all over and so far haven't seen anyone have this issue - the closest i got was a thread about someone's rmxv game test giving them a black screen, and the response was essentially "huh that's weird" before the thread was closed without a clear solution. if you could help me out i would really appreciate it!