How to do set pieces with multidimensional characters

more things ~= cardboard people

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A set piece is a part in a work of fiction (a book, a movie, a TV show) that is just bigger, more complex, more fantastic. It’s where the stakes are highest, the action the brightest, important things are happening with important characte…