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The pond assembled every frog it had for twenty cents.
All three were awake above the reels.
Green on the left.
Red in the middle.
Purple on the right.
Behind them, an entire imperial garden glowed at sunset: tiled roofs, golden lanterns, cherry blossom petals, waterfalls and enough polished orange architecture to suggest somebody important was about to arrive.
Nobody important arrived.
A €0.20 Money symbol did.
The green frog had spread 2x across reels one and two.
The red frog had stamped 3x, 6x and 3x across the grid.
The purple frog had added another 2x across reels two and three.
The centre reel was now the imperial frog court.
Twenty-four times sat in the middle.
The defendant was twenty cents.
All three frogs leaned over it.
2x.
6x.
2x.
The coin went through the full ceremonial machinery of the palace and came out worth €4.80.
The feature total reached €40.20.
Above the reels, the frogs remained perfectly serious.
That was the central problem.
Nothing in this garden looked capable of treating twenty cents casually.
Pearls sat on golden stands.
Lotus flowers floated through the symbols.
A goldfish looked expensive enough to have its own pond.
Jewels gleamed inside ornate frames.
Lanterns burned over waterfalls while pink petals drifted past tiled palace roofs.
Then three frogs activated enough multiplier power to process loose change found under a bench.
The base game had started at €1.00.
Three reels.
Three rows.
Five paylines.
A tiny imperial courtyard surrounded by enough scenery to host an emperor.
The grid itself contained pearls, golden fish, lotus flowers, coloured gems and flowers arranged with all the dignity expected from a palace garden.
Above it sat the frogs.
They were the dangerous part.
Green, red and purple Scatter symbols could appear on their respective reels.
When one connected with the corresponding frog, the animal above the reels stopped being decorative wildlife and started altering the laws of multiplication.
The first green Scatter arrived early.
It struck the left frog.
The frog blinked.
Nothing else happened.
The garden returned to pearls and flowers.
A purple Scatter appeared a few spins later.
Right frog.
Another small ceremony.
Still no Free Spins.
The three amphibians resumed staring down from above the reels like a council that had accepted two pieces of tribute and postponed the meeting.
Then the red Scatter landed.
Centre reel.
The middle frog woke properly.
The sunset palace brightened.
Six Free Spins appeared.
The red frog took command of the grid.
Reel one received 3x.
Reel two received 6x.
Reel three received 3x.
One frog had activated and immediately assigned multiplication to the entire courtyard.
The first Free Spin brought a Money symbol on reel one.
€0.40.
The red frog’s 3x caught it.
€1.20.
The palace had mobilised one royal amphibian, three multiplier lanes and an entire sunset garden to turn forty cents into one euro twenty.
The second spin brought pearl, lotus and jewel symbols.
No Money.
The 3x, 6x and 3x remained stretched beneath them.
The red frog watched a pearl cross the middle reel under 6x protection and receive absolutely no financial assistance from it.
There are objects that do not require an armed escort.
The pearl had one anyway.
Then purple arrived.
A Scatter landed.
The right frog activated.
Three more Free Spins went onto the counter.
Its multiplier spread across reels two and three.
Now the red and purple frogs overlapped.
The centre reel carried 12x.
The right reel carried 6x.
The palace garden had doubled its amphibian authority.
It responded by sending in €0.60.
The Money symbol landed in the centre.
Red 6x.
Purple 2x.
Twelve times.
€7.20.
The reels flashed.
The frogs bounced.
Lantern light, golden trim and running water surrounded a sixty-cent coin receiving the kind of reception normally reserved for a visiting dynasty.
The next Money symbol landed on reel three.
€0.30.
Red 3x.
Purple 2x.
€1.80.
A pearl watched from another reel.
The pearl itself was worth far more as a normal symbol when properly lined up, but the frogs were currently busy giving thirty cents a royal procession.
Then €1.00 landed on reel one.
Only the red frog could reach it.
3x.
€3.
The green frog sat above reels one and two with both eyes open and no modifier active.
A golden palace, a waterfall and a perfectly good left-side frog had all been supplied.
The multiplier had not.
More green Scatters came.
One hit.
Nothing.
Another appeared later.
Still no activation.
The green frog had become the most expensive-looking spectator in the garden.
Money continued choosing its territory with suspicious timing.
A €0.50 symbol landed in the middle.
Red and purple caught it.
12x.
€6.
The green frog remained above the left side like an imperial statue that occasionally breathed.
The feature total reached €19.20.
The counter kept shrinking.
Then another green Scatter arrived.
This one connected properly.
The left frog activated.
Three more Free Spins appeared.
Now all three frogs were awake.
The garden had achieved full amphibian government.
Green laid 2x across reels one and two.
Red already held 3x, 6x and 3x.
Purple still held 2x across reels two and three.
Reel one became 6x.
Reel three became 6x.
The centre reel became the palace treasury.
24x.
Three frogs.
One tiny 3×3 grid.
Enough multiplication in the middle to make every approaching coin look underdressed.
The next Free Spin brought no Money at all.
Pearl.
Lotus.
Gem.
Flower.
The full frog court stared down at ornamental gardening.
Twenty-four times sat across the centre reel with nothing financial to touch.
Three royal frogs had assembled a multiplier procession so a lotus could cross the courtyard safely.
Then the Money arrived.
Centre reel.
€0.10.
Ten cents.
The smallest coin of the feature had walked into the most heavily defended position in the garden.
Green 2x.
Red 6x.
Purple 2x.
24x.
€2.40.
The frogs celebrated.
The reels flashed.
A ten-cent coin had just passed through three amphibian modifiers, a glowing centre lane and enough palace scenery to require its own postcard.
It left with €2.40 and no explanation for where it had been.
The total moved to €21.60.
Another spin brought €0.50 on reel three.
Red and purple combined for 6x.
€3.
A green Scatter landed beside it.
The left frog was already awake.
There were no more frogs to recruit.
The palace had reached maximum frog.
From this point onward, the only useful thing left to send was money.
The reels continued offering lotus flowers.
Golden fish.
Jewels.
All beautiful.
None of them were Coins.
Then €0.20 landed on reel one.
Green and red reached it.
6x.
€1.20.
All three frogs watched the total move to €25.80.
Twenty cents had required only two members of the royal court this time.
A streamlined procedure.
The following spin brought no Money.
A pearl landed.
Then a lotus.
Then a red jewel.
Every multiplier stayed active over them.
The frogs blinked one after another.
The whole thing looked rehearsed.
Two Free Spins remained.
A Money symbol landed in the centre.
€0.40.
The imperial frog court had been waiting.
24x.
€9.60.
That one finally justified the architecture.
The centre reel erupted.
The frogs bounced.
The total jumped to €35.40.
For one spin, the waterfall, palace lanterns, three amphibian modifiers and heavily guarded centre lane all seemed proportionate to the object that had arrived.
Then came the final Free Spin.
All three frogs remained awake.
The gold trim glowed.
Sunset sat behind the tiled roofs.
Petals drifted over the water.
The multiplier map still covered every reel.
Green.
Red.
Purple.
Full court.
The centre position stopped on Money.
€0.20.
Of course.
The frogs leaned in.
The little coin had entered the throne room.
Green supplied 2x.
Red supplied 6x.
Purple supplied 2x.
Twenty-four times wrapped around twenty cents.
€4.80.
The feature finished at €40.20.
The palace returned to stillness.
Three frogs remained perched above the grid.
Pearls, jewels and lotus flowers waited below them.
Water continued over the rocks.
The lanterns continued glowing.
The whole imperial garden looked prepared for an event of tremendous historical importance.
The event had been a twenty-cent coin becoming €4.80.
I left with the small win.
The frogs stayed in position, round-eyed and dignified, guarding a courtyard full of pearls and goldfish.
Somewhere beneath all that ceremonial architecture, the final €0.20 had probably already started telling the other coins it had once received an audience with all three frogs.
Baron Lord of Saturday loaded. I reloaded. Nothing changed.