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Obstacles Dictionary Thesaurus Wikipedia

Agent loses confidence

Agent runs out of time

Agent perceives a trap

Agent runs out of fuel

Agent perceives an omen

Agent lacks opportunity

Agent makes a wrong turn

Agent gets bogged down

Agent faces a crossroads

Agent anticipates problems

Agent struggles to survive

Agent is paralyzed by fear

Agent encounters resistance

Agent repeats the same mistake

Agent is unable to fall asleep

Agent rushes to meet a deadline

Agent complicates a simple task

Agent lacks a critical resource

Agent kills in order to survive

Agent conserves scarce resources

Agent struggles to avoid capture

Agent attracts unwanted attention

Agent lacks essential information

Agent struggles to appear normal

Agent pays a price for being sloppy

Agent creates artificial boundaries

Agent defies arbitrary restrictions

Agent is forced to do a tedious task

Agent is torn between duty and desire

Agent is impacted by a freak accident

Agent lacks the ability to communicate

Agent feels cramped by the surroundings

Agent is distracted by a trivial matter

Agent struggles to make something happen

Agent struggles to resist a powerful force

Agent struggles to cross a difficult chasm

Agent faces the thing that Agent fears most

Agent wants a family but can't find a mate

Agent prepares for a seeming inevitability

Agent becomes distracted by a trivial matter

Agent is surprised by the severity of a storm

Agent tries to destroy incriminating evidence

Agent is denied access to critical information

Agent struggles to correct an imaginary defect

Lacking privacy, Agent is unable to concentrate

Agent makes a daring move to avoid a tragic fate

Agent faces the consequences of reckless behavior

Agent suffers the symptoms of a dangerous illness

Agent is confronted by an unexpected complication

Agent struggles to see object (X) more clearly

Agent struggles to resolve conflicting obligations

Agent is shaped by an unusual childhood experience

Agent struggles to return to a former way of life

Agent struggles to rationalize a difficult decision

To prove a point, Agent does something the hard way

Agent unexpectedly encounters a new set of problems

Agent struggles to assimilate into a foreign society

Agent tries to do too many things at the same time

Agent attempts to sneak object (X) past a checkpoint

Agent feels hindered by a particular personal trait

Agent discovers that all routes of escape are blocked

Agent is determined to break out of a cycle of poverty

Agent tries to make the best of a desperate situation

Agent is told not to do something that Agent likes to do

Agent becomes depleted and struggles to regain strength

Following a setback, Agent proceeds in a new direction

Agent struggles to comply with an elaborate set of rules

Agent goes out of the way to avoid an unwanted situation

Agent is targeted for being a particular type of person

To create object (X), Agent searches for a key ingredient

Agent tries to accomplish something beyond Agent’s ability

Agent has a mental lapse in the middle of a complex endeavor

Agent struggles to distinguish object (X) from an identical copy

Agent tries to undo a problem by going in the opposite direction

Agent decides that certain objectives must be put off until later

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