The Mailroom how to dissect frogs is only half of the amphibian work. Two different jobs use the same animal. A frog consignment from upper management has to be sealed in a container, loaded into a capsule and sent up the pneumatic tube for the floor they named, while a separate frog goes on the bench to be dissected for raw material. A loose frog, or a frog sent to the wrong floor, is a wasted specimen.

Delivering the frog management ordered

Frogs are a regular consignment rather than a one-off event, and management orders one to a named floor, Floor 2 for example. The delivery routine is:

  1. Read the floor from the order management gives you.
  2. Pick up the frog at the frog station.
  3. Put it in a container. A loose frog is the mistake people keep making, because the capsule only carries what has been packed into it.
  4. Load the container into a capsule.
  5. Send the capsule up the pneumatic tube for that floor.

The floor comes out of the directory book exactly as it does for a letter, and the whole routing routine is in which floor to send mail to.

Order of operations matters more here than anywhere else. A frog sent without a container, or sent to the wrong floor, brings a strongly worded letter from your superiors warning you not to mess up your frogs again, and the specimen is gone either way.

The Mailroom how to dissect frogs on the bench

The second frog is handled at the frog station and never leaves the bench. The routine is:

  1. Pick the frog up.
  2. Examine it before you cut it. An Inspect prompt and a Look prompt come up while the frog is held, and the cutting happens after that look.
  3. Cut it open on the bench.
  4. Collect the raw material.

The frogs are treated as occult specimens rather than animals to be thrown away, and handling them is what produces the raw material that the higher floors order as vital umbral resources. Petting is the other option the bench offers, and it is part of the same handling routine.

The raw material does not stay raw. It goes into the mixtures on the processing bench — grinding, measuring, weighing and chopping — and that is covered in potion crafting.