You introduce yourself to the fat gnome, telling him of your mission to escape from the Crazy Place, and giving an account of your adventures so far. You are just getting to the part about the slippery floor when the gnome interrupts you:

'Yes yes that's very interesting,' he says 'I'm sure that under different circumstances I could happily listen to you droning on for hours, but you couldn't help me out could you old chap? I seem to have gotten myself all tangled up!'

Will you cut the gnome free with your cable cutters;
Or leave him and save yourself before it's too late?