Month: October 2021

INKTOBER DAY 11 (SOUR): The Sour Soup Special is a form of lethal bait that the ruthless serve to monsters, or to their enemies!

The Sour Soup Special was first cooked in a vegetarian restaurant’s wash pit. This dish is a reddish sourdough borscht mixed with rhubarb, pickled veggies and chickpeas. It’s marinated in vinegar, sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. A sorrel garnish is added on top, and it’s often served with salted sourdough bread.

After the first swallow, this acidic course usually ulcerates the stomach and and causes heavy internal wounds. Even its sour odor can degenerate the central nervous system, delaying reflexes and depleting strength.

Legend says diners who survive a bowl of this stuff gain acid resistance. Still, you won’t want this for home cooking!

The Sour Soup Special is derived from the חמץ shoresh root and broader family, which deals with sourness, sour soup, acids, oxides, pickles, veggies, chickpeas, rhubarb, vinegar, wounding, degeneration, delays and more.

INKTOBER DAY 10 (PICK): If the Property Gnashing Pickax strikes its mark, there goes the neighborhood!

This pickax’s terrifying teeth mow down weeds and shrubbery, and they can also crunch through brick and mortar. Demolition crews use this tool to knock down buildings, special forces wield it to destroy enemy arsenals, and bank robbers bring it along to break inside vaults.

However, this weapon comes at a cost: A manufacturer’s flaw causes its “mouth” to jam unless the user feeds it regular deposits of cash. And like a loan shark, this sharp-toothed pickax charges usurious interest rates. That’s why some say it works best when eating the rich — literally!

The Property Gnashing Pickax is based on the נכש shoresh root and broader family, which governs pickaxes, biting, nipping pliers, usury, neighbors, dwellings, arsenals, storehouses, weeding and more.

INKTOBER DAY 9 (PRESSURE): Growing up, Ḥezi Deḥiq yearned for acceptance from his peers and never got it. This passion for the crowd’s love led him to betray his homeland of ‘Aravot and join the Bavel Macrostructure’s Kittim alliance.

But even with the world’s leaders behind him, peer pressure drives Deḥiq to be the best pistoleer on the planet. Beneath his fake “boring personality” is his repressed stress and turmoil. Inwardly he burns up, causing a fever that surrounds him in flames. At this point, he just wishes for a hiatus to catch his breath.

On the battlefield, Deḥiq’s go-to attack is to perforate his targets with his Carbuncle Drill Revolvers, which deal heavy fire and piercing damage. His gravity boots can create earthquakes and stomp flat whatever is beneath his heel. He also wears a shoulder drilling machine that makes his charges and throws deadly. The drilling machine can double as a culinary appliance, but Deḥiq’s terrible cooking always burns the meal.

Ḥezi Deḥiq’s powers come from the דחק shoresh root and related family, which governs stress, drive, inflammation, fever, burning, drills, handguns, pressure, crowds and more.

INKTOBER DAY 8 (WATCH): If you’re out for a night on the town, watch out for the ‘Irin Urban Watchers!

The Watchers, known as ‘Irin in Hebrew/Aramaic or Grigori in Greek, are angels who watch over humans. And this particular urban kind is fallen. In the extrabiblical book of Enoch (and some people’s interpretations of Genesis), the Watchers taught forbidden knowledge, mated with human women and fathered the Nefilim that became larger-than-life warriors.

In the “Milhamah” world of Avgad, the ‘Irin Urban Watchers are lustful pickup artists who congregate in cities, stay up all night and watch out for women’s bare skin. They even take notes on what they see.

Needless to say, the Urban Watchers are irredeemably evil creeps. But beware when fighting them: They have supernatural levels of energy and agility, and rumor has it that anyone who makes direct eye contact with them becomes blind! Their only known weakness is being easily incited or led by their emotions and desires.

The Urban Watchers are based on the עור shoresh root and related family, which has to do with the Watcher angels, cities, wakefulness, skin, blindness, arousal, note taking and more.