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{{quote|''As you approach the final confrontation with the villain, events will become increasingly awkward, contrived and disconnected from one another -- almost as if some cosmic Author was running up against a deadline and had to slap together the ending at the last minute.''
|'''[[The Grand List of Console RPG Cliches]]''', item [[Console RPG Cliches 169 to 192|#182]] ("Compression of Time")}}
A phenomenon where the rate of character death and stray plotline resolution is exponentially and inversely proportional to the number of pages left in the book.
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Do not confuse with [[Celestial Deadline]]. Contrast [[Exponential Plot Delay]] (though it's not unheard of for a series to have both at different times.)
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[[Category:Pacing Problems]]
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