Month: November 2021

Slow Sweeping Specter

Posted on November 18, 2021 by eczarnik

The Slow Sweeping Specter takes its time.Slow Sweeping Specter (B&W)

Don’t get stuck behind the Slow Sweeping Specter in traffic!

This evil monster is based on an Akkadian zombie vampire ghost. It haunts the city of Mattanah and does personal surveillance work for the Bavel Macrostructure.

To become fireproof in a city of crazed arsonists, the specter tried to become a magician but only learned to fly a broom.  So instead, it ingests toxic chemicals that repel fire while slowing down its reflexes.

As a result, the specter is incompetent and late for almost everything — unless it catches people in its broom’s deceleration dust, which will sap their mobility as well.

The Slow Sweeping Specter is based on the אטט shoresh family, which deals with slowness, magicians, sweeping, brooms, ghosts and more.

Type: Spirit, Shed
Shoresh: אטט
Gematria: 19

 

 

 

Dumpling Bundle

Posted on November 16, 2021 by eczarnik

Dumpling Bundle is stuffed full of treats!B&W Dumpling Bundle

The Dumpling Bundle is a stitched snack sack stuffed with doughy dumplings that are filled with kofta-style beef shoulder and other blended meats. The dish was first developed by cattle herders in Medinat Alef’s hilly Katef region.

Eventually, the dumplings grew popular among elite foodies in Bavel’s Mattanah city. ‘Ivrit’s Ulpan Academy cafeteria also serves the dish to its hungry troops, making this meal a rare point of agreement between the two warring factions.

The Dumpling Bundle comes from the כפת shoresh family, which deals with dumplings, kofta, shoulders, stitches and blends.

 

Tola’at Teacher

Posted on November 14, 2021 by eczarnik

Tola'at Teacher B&WTola'at Teacher (Color)

The Tola’at Teacher is a bright bug who produces a brighter scarlet dye in Bavel’s commercial city of Mattanah. It’s also known as a “learned little worm” who pupils its pupae, teaching them how to read and learn speech acts.

A few tola’at also tutor Mattanah’s citizens by biting people’s heads with their tiny teeth. Due to this illegally increasing literacy, it’s no surprise that the Bavel Macrostructure wants to crush these grubs into red paste.

The Tola’at Teacher is based on the לעת shoresh family, which governs instruction, tola’at, worms, scarlet, bicuspids and more.

Type: Bug
Shoresh: תלע
Gematria: 500
Size: Tiny
Habitat: Mattanah, Katef Shoulder, Urban, Hills, Desert
Threat: Lv. 1
Rarity: Golden (Common)
Liability: 5 (or 2DN high – low) Merit: 1 Law: 1
Base stats: DOM 1R, VIG 1R, GRA 2R, CRE 2R, WIS 3R, PEA 2R, BLE 2R
Plot Armor: 0
Equipment: Generic blackboard (Tiny), Generic chalk (Tiny) Generic book (Tiny)
Loot: Scarlet Dye
Skills: Languages +2R
Behavior: Rational, gentle. Often flees when attacked unless cornered.
Combat Actions: Bicuspid Bite (Success Margin +1DN damage)
Speech Acts:

  • Scarlet Letters
    • Shoresh: לעת
    • Cost: 1 Merit or 1DN Liability
    • Rolls: User’s CRE vs. target’s PEA. No roll needed if target waives resistance.
    • Effect: Choose target: Target gains +2R when performing next offensive speech act.
    • Duration: Effect ends after the target performs the target speech act, or within one day, whichever happens first.

Jackal-in-the-Box

Posted on November 12, 2021 by eczarnik

The Jackal-in-the-Box is a not-so-special delivery!Jackal-in-the-Box color version

 

The Jackal-in-the-Box is a special delivery for all the wrong reasons!

This packaged predator hides among the piles of presents lining the streets of Mattanah, a wealthy Bavel city. When an unfortunate citizen, subject or creature opens the box expecting a reward, the jackal pounces. Unscrupulous donors — including Bavel’s Sotem forces — have used these traps to assassinate enemies.

The Jackal-in-the-Box is powered by the תנן shoresh root, which governs jackals, gifts, donors, delivery, citizens, subjects and more.

Tannin Statistician

Posted on November 10, 2021 by eczarnik

The Statistical Sea Serpent is far from average!

The Tannin Statistician is far from average!

This nerdy dragon has an odd eye for data, order and analysis, despite being a serpentine ancestor of Leviathan (Livyatan), Tiamat and other chaotic sea monsters. Even as a monster, this crocodilian calculator isn’t very mean. He often surrenders his lunch money and other valuables to the bully monsters.

The Tannin Statistician is powered by the תנן shoresh root and family, which deals with crocodiles, sea monsters, jackals, data, giving, surrendering and more.