I am unfamiliar with scripting but am willing to learn if it stops this issue. Are you telling me there's a way to change where the item spawns after the player drops an item? That would be fantastic because it'd be easy to make a 'dump' page which the player could never reach.

I have a very rudimentary understanding of items/variables so please excuse me if this is a dumb question. I understand that items can be discovered on specific pages, but is there a way of ensuring that the item only appears *once* when you arrive on that page, so the next time a link is clicked again taking you to said page, the item doesn't appear?

Sure, I'll give this a try. Does the crisis have to be world-altering or can it be personal?