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trixus
Since: Aug, 2015
Do we have a trope for a quest or dungeon that starts you with little-to-nothing and tasks you with bootstrapping your way through it? Usually, what happens in the quest/dungeon is self-contained and once you leave or complete it, everything goes back to the way it was before you started.