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Something must stop them. In "Bastion-style" stories, this is often the environment itself or "Scrappers" representing the wreckage of the old world.

People find things more satisfying in threes—three obstacles, three main characters, or three acts. lh11rar

"Proper story’s supposed to start at the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one." Something must stop them

That line belongs to , the narrator of the 2011 action-RPG Bastion . He uses it to introduce the player's journey as "The Kid" wakes up on a floating rock after a world-ending event called the Calamity. "Proper story’s supposed to start at the beginning

She stood up, her boots crunching on what used to be poetry. In her hand, she gripped a heavy iron key, cold enough to bite through her glove. It wasn't for a door. In this new world, doors were luxuries for people with walls. This key was an anchor.

She stepped off the marble onto a floating cobblestone path that knit itself together just as her foot descended. To her left, a piece of a clock tower drifted by, its gears frozen at 12:04. To her right, a garden bench held a statue of a man holding a bunch of stone roses. He looked peaceful. Elara envied the stone.

If you want to write your own, most expert guides from Grammarly and Writers.com suggest focusing on these "proper" pillars: