Item:Mechanical toad covered in speckled cotton

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mechanical toad covered in speckled cotton
Look:	Mottled green and brown fabric stretches over a wire frame that holds the gears which allow the toad to move. Its long hind legs are articulated in three places, providing quite a bit of flexibility. A copper key protrudes from a small hole in its back.
Weight:	5 stones
Metal:	Unknown
Appraised Cost:	693 Kronars554.4 Lirums <br />500.069 Dokoras <br />0.693 LTBpoints <br />0.693 Tickets <br />0.693 Scrips <br />
Properties:	This item is a toy. This item has more than normal or unusual verbs.
Dimensions:	1 length x 1 width x 1 height
Sources:	Source is All Wound Up (2), All Wound Up (1)

• STUDY: It looks like to wind up your toad you must TURN the key in its back, then PULL the key out.
  

You can also PUSH, RUB, and OPEN a mechanical toad covered in speckled cotton. You are also certain that you could hurt its feelings by mocking it.

A mechanical toad covered in speckled cotton also looks somewhat delicate, and you may want to LOWER it if you want to set it down.

• TURN: You wind up your toad. You meet very little resistance as you turn the key.
• TURN: You wind up your toad. You meet a slight amount of resistance as you turn the key.
• TURN: You wind up your toad. The toy puts up a fair amount of resistance as you turn the key. You believe you can only wind the toy up a little bit more.
• TURN: You wind up your toad. A click indicates you have wound up the mechanical toad as much as you can.
• PULL: You pull the key out of your mechanical toad as you gently set it on the ground.
  

With a rhythmic clicking sound, the toad begins to hop in an erratic rhythm, taking a step backward for each few forward bounces. After this warm up, the toad begins to spin in the air with each hop, each time turning a full rotation! As it winds down, the toy spins in lazier and lazier circles before stopping, resting on its legs and facing you.

You scoop the mechanical toad back up and reinsert the key into the wind-up slot.

• PUSH: You poke at the mechanical toad, causing it to hop slowly and deliberately in place.
• RUB: You rub your toad in an attempt to polish it. It looks better.
• OPEN: You pull up on some of the outside skin of your toad and peer under it. You are rewarded with a view of a mess of gears and fine clockwork.
• MOCK:You squint at a mechanical toad covered in speckled cotton and exclaim, "You're nothing more than a cheap trinket!" The mechanical toad remains silent, properly shamed.
• LOWER: You gently lower your mechanical toad to the ground.