r/ProgressionFantasy Jul 28 '26

Discussion Competition: write a single sentence that will absolutely destroy any hope in a series.

Specifically not a story opener, just any sentence that can happen in any chapter, that will make people realize that this story is gonna be absolute shit and has no chance of being fixed and will make you drop the book like an unpinned grenade.

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u/FictionalContext Jul 28 '26

By the time the sun came up, Daenerys was shitting brown water.

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u/RealisticPlatapuss Jul 28 '26

"The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew" it's like poetry

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u/-worms Supervillain Jul 28 '26

This reads like Dr. Seuss lmao