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Now that you've caught it the frog doesn't seem to mind at all being handled. It has a peculiar leopard pattern and its purple-hued skin glimmers slightly in candlelight. It's smaller than the ones you have usually seen hopping near the garden pond.

A tiny silver capsule is attached to its neck with a silk string.

>OPEN CAPSULE

(first taking the silver capsule)

You untie the capsule from around the frog's neck.

As you're occupied with the silver capsule, the frog hops out of your grasp. It seems you'll need to find a proper container if you want to hold on to it.

Try as you might, you can't seem to pry the capsule open with your bare hands.

>TOOL, FETTER FROG

You point your Dremel tool at the tiny frog and set the pegs to fetter. The scrap of paper from the last hole of the tool dislodges, fluttering to the floor. You have little time to register this as the now misaligned tool backfires and odourless purple gloop spreads around your legs, rooting you in place. You have self-fettered: an embarrassment you haven't suffered since your Academy days.

The tiny harlequin frog hops north, turning around the corner out of sight.

> X GLOOP