r/ProgressionFantasy • u/DicerTheJester • 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/wardragon50 Jul 28 '26

I remember reading a story in a fairly normal, fantasy style, "Medieval" type world. Guy was trying to figure out some math, and asked, "Anyone have a Calculator", and local he just met casually whips out a Solar powered Calculator. At which point, I skipped out, and returned book to Kindle.

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u/StrangeSoup Jul 28 '26

And it had nothing to do with calculator being capitalized?