Find
Pick up
Pick up verb - Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Story Breadcrumbs Leaving scraps of information lying around the game world for the lonely player to find and pick up.
Source: Videogame Tropes - Some games eschew character interaction to tell story, and instead leave epistolary scraps of information lying around the game world for the lonely player to find and pick up, or ignore at one's leisure.
Source: Story Breadcrumbs - When she finds herself alive instead she struggles to pick up the pieces and find her way again.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Mass Effect
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