[CITRINE]

[dramatispersonae]

*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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[DISCUSS]

[dramatispersonae]

*Your items are: a single docile pennytoad, a zippo lighter, and a pillowcase.

In the firepit, an image forms in reds and golds.  A discfish, half-buried in mud.  Bloop.*

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.

Re: [DISCUSS]

[lightmyfire]

[already playing with the lighter]

... I am so questing for one of these.

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[hypocritic_oath]

... do those fish eat small toads?

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[mylittlecavallone]

[ omg what is this tiny frog. ]

It could be worth a shot.

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[lightmyfire]

The pillowcase is pretty obvious, but what about the lighter?

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[hypocritic_oath]

We can use the toad as bait and the pillowcase as net. I am not sure of what to do with the lighter.

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[lightmyfire]

Does heat do anything to mud?

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[mylittlecavallone]

Sunlight hardens it over time, but I don't think this little thing will be able to do that fast enough to help us any.

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[lightmyfire]

Huh... We could burn holes in the pillowcase to make it an actual net.

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[hypocritic_oath]

We could cut a piece of the pillow case in stripes, place them around the fish and set them on fire so it has nowhere to go except inside the remaining pillowcase.

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[mylittlecavallone]

[ ... where'd that frog I was holding go... ]

So long as the mud isn't deep enough for it to go under the stripes, that could work.

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[lightmyfire]

... [blinks at] That sounds really good. But what about the frog?

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[hypocritic_oath]

It can still be bait-- where is the frog?

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[lightmyfire]

The knight had it--[LOOKS AT]

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[mylittlecavallone]

[ Holding up empty hands. ]

I swear I just had it.

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[hypocritic_oath]

...

It seems we lost our bait.

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[lightmyfire]

Did you lose our game item?!

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[lightmyfire]

Okay, so... we're gonna use the frog as bait, and tie a bit of pillowcase around it so it doesn't hop off or anything. Not too much though, since it's a small frog. We're gonna flick the lighter on and off to get the frog's attention, and when it jumps, we'll use the rest of the pillowcase to catch it.

Is that right?

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[pyrocatharsis]

...The fish's attention.

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[hypocritic_oath]

It could also be used to catch the fish's attention, but yes that seems to be it.

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[lightmyfire]

Sorry, my bad. That's what I meant.

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[hypocritic_oath]

It works either way.

[FINAL ANSWER]

[dramatispersonae]

Re: [FINAL ANSWER]

[lightmyfire]

Okay, so... we're gonna use the frog as bait, and tie a bit of pillowcase around it so it doesn't hop off or anything. Not too much though, since it's a small frog. We're gonna flick the lighter on and off to get the fish's attention, and when it jumps, we'll use the rest of the pillowcase to catch it.

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[dramatispersonae]

*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.*