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[CORAL]

*You find yourself on the floor of a massive, hanging copper cage. It’s large enough to fit all of you, with room to walk around. The single door out is at ground level, but it is locked.

Through the bars, you see only empty, flickering white space. The chain the cage hangs by leads up into the same white space, until it’s lost to sight. It’s oppressively warm.

In the center of the floor are two things of note: a large lit firepit, with no discernible source of fuel, and a box containing three objects.*

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*Your items are: a bucket, a stout wooden club, and a tiny net (good for scooping guppies.)

In the firepit, an image forms in reds and golds. An incest, leaping.*

With only the items in the box, and your knowledge of this creature, how would you capture it? What sort of pursuit would you take, or what kind of trap would you craft? Be imaginative.

You must use everything provided, and you have one hour.

When you are ready, throw your objects in the fire and then tell me your answer.

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I'm afraid I don't know that much about them…

They're fast and cute.

And their meat is delicious, apparently.

... Club it, stab it with the net, then take it home in the bucket.

Aren't they a little fast for that? Brute force probably isn't the answer.

[props up bucket with the wooden club]

A trap then?

Hmm, why would it go under, though? Do they like dens?

What if we used the net to catch a fish and use that as bair?

Hmm… could we do that and then use it for string like Hound suggested?

That could work but I don't know if that's allowed?

Mmm. [nods]

What if we prop up the bucket with the net and then just... club it? Though we'd still need some kinda bait.

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I don't see anything wrong with it. We're using our resources.

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Do they eat meat?

They look like the kind've animal that'd eat just about anythin'.

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Undo the net to make string?

Maybe.

We don't have the right tools at all.

It would be easier if we didn't have to use them. It takes longer to tame a wild creature, but you don't need specialized tools.

And we don't need to actually make it, just come up with a plan that sounds like it could work.

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[throws the items in the fire.]

Mm, first, if it's allowed, we catch a small fish with the net to use as bait. If not, we wait until it's accustomed to our presence, then one of us waves the net around to distract the incest while another of us sneaks up with the bucket. Then we push the bucket down over it and use the club as a weight to keep it inside. And that's how we trap it.

*the objects--even those that shouldn’t burn--are consumed instantly.

there’s an abrupt click and whirr somewhere high above. your cage begins to move sideways.*

Uwaaaaah~.

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