Plot cough

There's a cutscene in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 where there's a character who the protagonist needs to get information from, but he spontaneously starts coughing before he can tell the protagonist all of the information, forcing the scene to end without you finding it out. When Joe got to this part, he pointed out how contrived it was and then started referring to it as a plot cough.

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