The Analeptic Raisin Cake is a tempting treat that the Descriptivists used in combat. This confection, baked in ashes, is smeared with a stimulant drug that promotes physical strength, sharpened senses, recovery and pain relief. However, eating too many can cause flashbacks, epileptic seizures, or mystical hallucinations of pagan gods. The last reason is why the Sefer Yetzer Ra’ cult uses them as burnt offerings, fashioning them in the shape of Ishtar.
The Holy Tongue society bans the use of Analeptic Raisin Cakes among its members, though Etgar Toar still craves them when no one is looking.
The Analeptic Raisin Cake comes from the אשש shoresh root and family, which governs raisin cakes, fire and analeptics.
Type: Consumable: Food, Medicine
Shoresh: אשש
Gematria: 601
Size: Small (1 IU)
Uses: 1
Effect: User must roll PEA vs. a 4S difficulty threshold. If fail, user’s inclination drops one level. After roll, recovers 3DN Liability Points and +1R to all user’s attributes.
Duration: Attribute boost: 6 hours
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.
Type: Consumable Item Tags: Food, Meat, Attach, Fasten Shoresh: כפת Gematria: 500 Potency: Lv. 1 Rarity: Orange Size: Medium Weight: Medium Uses: Three Effect: Each use on a subject counts as one meal and restores 2DN (high – low) Liability Points.
INKTOBER DAY 13 (ROOF): The “Gag” Roof Hat is a standard-issue, military-style hat worn by members of the ‘Ivrit Revival Movement.
Although it has the flexibility of padded clothing, the Roof Hat is durable and protective against attacks from above. The headgear’s marquee on the front panel is also a subtle communication device that can relay commands between units and amplify speech acts in combat.
“Gag” means roof in the ‘Ivrit language, and the hat comes from the גגג shoresh root, which governs roofs, hats, circumflexes, marquees and more.
The Air Force Fan is an aerial drone version of a war fan that can cut through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds and can cleave enemies with dangerous air currents. It is guided by two smaller side fans that act as wings, as well as two rotating cooling fans that help is accelerate.
Because this weapon is large and cumbersome, it is rarely used by people, but it’s a favorite weapon of the Ruḥot wind spirits.
The fan’s shoresh root is אורר, which governs air, fans and airplanes.
Shoresh roots are a special type of plantlike root that forms an essential resource in the world of Avgad.
Material significance
An entire economy revolves around the mining and harvesting of shoresh roots. These roots are believed to be centuries or millennia old and are hidden deep in the earth beneath Avgad’s thousands of domains.
Bavel researchers have indexed over 3,700 different kinds of shoresh roots in existence, though they suspect that undiscovered ones still exist in the wild. At least a couple hundred types are believed to be extinct and only exist in dried or fossilized forms, or even as legends. However, most varieties are found to be living and reproducing today.
Once harvested, shoresh roots can be used for energy, food, medicine and chemicals, textiles and more. Durable materials can be made from shoresh nanofibers, dyes, lumber and paper use in religious rituals, cosmetics, glue, construction and insulation materials. Extraction techniques can take the actual elemental letters from the root, which can then be combined with other letters to generate speech acts.
Spiritual significance
Many people speculate that the roots’ ultimate origin stems from the Taḥbir, the Syntax Tree that produced the Fruit of Knowledge in Pardes. Others point to the Ilan Tree or the Tashqili, the Tree of Metrics.
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