Broken Bridge/Playing With
Basic Trope: Something stops the party from going to a certain area, and they must do something before it is gone.
- Straight: A bridge falls, and Prince Bob, Lady Emily, Lord Charlie, Lord Dave, and Lady Alice are unable to progress to the villain's base. They go and defeat some of said villain's minions, and the bridge is fixed.
- Exaggerated: There's a bridge, a Dronejam, a boulder on a mountain path, a little kid, a roadblock, carnivorous plants, two people talking, a closed shop that will be open tomorrow, Mooks saying they're conducting research in some ruins and you can't enter, a group of Mooks in the Ruined Castle Tourist Attraction blocking of the west half if you haven't done the east half, someone doing the Ragecandybar gambit, a Mook doing a Dronejam, a bridge at the same ruined castle leading out of it, people saying "something came up", Snorlax, Sudowoodo, a parade, an area where you must go another way because you'll meet someone there, a wall near the sea, puppies playing, and a guard blocking entry... not in that order.
- Downplayed: A little kid asks you to get medicine for his mother. Alice takes pity on him and demands you stop and help.
- Justified: Bob goes to find a way to fix the bridge.
- Inverted: The heroes destroy a bridge to keep enemies out of an area.
- Subverted: There is an intact bridge which seems like it'll be a Broken Bridge.
- Double Subverted: There is a Dronejam there, and the heroes have to beat up the villains to give the two people something else to talk about.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Deconstructed: Without the bridge, people living on an island are marooned and will soon run out of food and water.
- Reconstructed: The heroes take a boat to find supplies and fix the bridge.
- Averted: You can go anywhere at any time.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: The villain destroys the bridge to stop the heroes getting to him.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The bridge is out, but when you talk to the NPCs in front of it they say it'd be really annoying for you to have to wait for it to be fixed to get on with your quest, so they work super-hard to get the bridge back up so you can cross it.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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