It's a fantasy role-playing game.

DM: You are Grog Strongjaw, a goliath barbarian . You are the member of the famous group of adventurers. Previously, This perplexes them for a little while. They try heating up the pieces, but that does nothing either.
DM: Okay, so you go ahead and you pull out the chunks of heated, now cooling platinum and drop them into the coals for a moment. You pull them off the coals, carefully.
Player: Can I run up and MJ the new gold pyramid into the--?
DM: Sure, make an intelligence check.
Player: An intelligence check? Oh, because I got to put them together. Two!
DM: Grog is having a hard time with that. Okay.
Player: I'm making an origami swan.
DM: All right, you guys eventually help him put it together a second time.
