At first, you were going to just dive headfirst into seeing what exactly it is or why it is here, but you remembered all the movies you saw of situations going to crap because protagonists were taking things on heads on, or not being safe, or assuming things would BE safe.
Luckily, you are not those protagonists.
You make strides to not fall into that trap. You put on gloves, planning to explain why you are wearing gloves later. you only poke and prod around using tools and objects you find around the house. You try to learn more about the ball you have, trying to figure out what to do with it, or how it got here, or how to get it back. Unfortunately, the infallible source that is Wikipedia fails you, and every other source on google. Even on the second page...
You close your laptop frustrated, wondering what to do. You could just ignore it, put it back and wait for someone else to touch it...but that would end this story! And who wants to end an adventure before it even gets started? No no no, somehow you're doing something with this, but you need to figure out what. Maybe...maybe you shouldn't play this safe after all. Oh, Cinemasins and HISHE is gonna have a ball with this...
(Go backwards to #17.)