video, un: sunflower

[muscovy]

[When Muscovy appears, he looks a bit scratched up but also thrilled, glowing with the joy of a successful hunt. ...He also is confused, and a bit upset, (even though he is still smiling brightly) and that is why he is contacting the network.]

I found a little frog.

[He holds up his hands, which are forming a globe around... something. It's obviously invisible due to it being caught between his hands, but there are odd dark brown smears on his hand. They look almost like... chocolate.]

It is really strange and it didn't die when I hit it, but it is melting now and I can't make it stop that. Does anyone know how to make brown frogs stop melting? It is very silly to just melt after being hit couldn't kill you.

[He'll spread his fingers a bit so that one can, with a bit of squinting and watching closely, see a dark brown frog between his hands. ...Well, it looks like a chocolate frog that has been held in one's palms for a bit too long and melted a bit, and his fingers are even more chocolate stained on the inside. It also seems to have a pretty cramped situation between the boy's small fingers, because it definitely fills all the space in there.]

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video un: newt

[sleepallthewayhome]

Frogs don't melt.

[But peering over at the screen closely. She's not sure what the brown stuff is.]

Was it in mud?

[muscovy]

I found it on a tree and followed it through some moss and grass.

[He looks down at his hand and his expression turns thoughtful.] Maybe it ate something strange before I found it, it was sitting in a couple of leaves that a person shouldn't eat at first.

[sleepallthewayhome]

Do the leaves make you melt?

[muscovy]

No, but I'm not a frog, yes?

[Maybe it is a plant that makes only weird brown frogs melt, and not people.

He peers down at his hands.]

But the melted parts don't hurt my skin. [...this is a bit belated, but yeah. Clearly this frog isn't toxic. Yay?]

[sleepallthewayhome]

Oh.

That's good.

[Yay.]

Where are you? I want to see it.

[muscovy]

[He'll describe an area fairly far out in the outskirts of the base camp, though not far enough for it to truly be in an unpopulated area.]

I'll wait here!

[Yay for someone coming to figure this out together. Maybe she knows things from her world that might be helpful with this weird frog.]

Video, UN: etliberte

[lafautedevoltaire]

[Gavroche is looking at the frog with more than a little wonder]

That doesn't look like anything that's from this planet. Or home.

[muscovy]

...You think one of the others brought it with them from their home?

[He spreads his fingers a bit further to check out the frog himself, and the not-animal starts to use the little bit of space that it just gained to try and jump against Muscovy's fingers to wrestle itself free.]

[lafautedevoltaire]

Only thing I can think of.

But where do frogs melt?

[muscovy]

Maybe it wouldn't melt back home but the weather here is bad for it?

[He isn't absolutely sure that it only started melting after he caught it, after all.]

[lafautedevoltaire]

Maybe! It's very warm here, so if people were from cold places it would make sense.

[He's realized there are a lot of strange worlds out there]

video; un: rjlupin

[fullmoon]

[ Despite that Harry is missing, this earns an aww sort of smile. ]

Bite its head off.

[muscovy]

Is that the only thing that can kill it?

[fullmoon]

It won't kill it. It's not alive.

[muscovy]

But it is jumping around. Only living things do that.

[fullmoon]

And enchanted ones. My dad had a teapot that jumped.

un: taKeshi!!!

[throwsdown]

But that's mean!!

[fullmoon]

[ oh no :c ]

Oh, it doesn't feel anything.

[throwsdown]

But — how come! Does it got something wrong with its skin?

[Other than being... chocolate...]

[fullmoon]

No, it's made of chocolate. It's magic that's making it move like it's alive. If you break the legs off they'll still wiggle.

un: taKeshi!!!

[throwsdown]

[He's so late to the party, that's what he gets when he's adventuring.]

Whoa!!

Is it magic??

Re: un: taKeshi!!!

[muscovy]

It hasn't tried to kill me yet.

[He thinks. ....Okay, peering at it worriedly. Is the frog currently cursing him?]

You think that is why it is melting?

[throwsdown]

[He considers it for a moment, unsure.]

Maybe it's melting 'cus your hands are warm.

Sometimes chocolate gets all sticky and gross if you hold it.

[muscovy]

What is chocolate?

[Maybe that is the solution of this mystery, even though ...well. There are a lot of worlds that are somewhat alike, so maybe if the frog is from one of them and Takeshi from another, they could have the same substance... Gavroche made a very good point about it being from the world of someone who came here like them.]

[throwsdown]

[........!!!!]

Chocolate!! You know! Candy! It's real, real good.

You never had chocolate before?