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SeptimusHeap
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2013-01-08 11:53:03
Please use Lost And Found for these questions.
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Discar
Since: Jun, 2009
2013-01-08 12:40:46
Gah, sorry, my bad. I skimmed the info at the top to double check, saw "looking for a particular trope..."
Move along nothing to see here.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.

What's the trope for a character putting himself out of a job? Specifically, I'm thinking of a series where the Norse messenger god, Heimdall, got annoyed at being summoned to random places whenever the other gods needed to communicate long-distance, and nudged a human inventor to create the telegraph, which eventually lead to cell phones and the internet making his job obsolete.
It's kinda close to Gone Horribly Right, but not quite.