By Felipe Lohan Pinheiro da Silva
İn the Greenƒіeld county there was a lonely mountain where a shrine (⛩️) of a paciƒіst monastic Order was built. There were stories that, several millenia ago, in the exact location of the ⛩️, a magical gateway appeared; monsters came through the gateway and ravaged the location, killing a lot of people. No one believed in that story, not even the monks of the ⛩️.
Susamuk (SOO-SAH-MOOK*), was a young member of the ⛩️. One day, Susamul asked the older chief monk why the Gods never healed three monks of the order, one albino, one w/ nanism («dwarƒіsm»), and one who suffered an amputation of his leg in an accident; he alsoi asked why the Gods never healed a boy that lived in the Madison town (capital of the county) and born w/ a mental retardation. This infuriated the chief monk, that answered by giving him a corporal punishment, spanking Susamuk w/ a bamboo staff; later he gave order to put him to spend the night in the solitary cell of the ⛩️.
Suddenly, one day, the magical gateway reappeared inside the ⛩️. The monsters appeared crossing it.
To drive them away, the monks sang religious chants, threw holy water on them and pointed the holy symbols to them. İt was useless: they bit off their hands and swallowed their holy symbols and holy water flasks, and killed them all. İt was a general slaughter. Susamuk was the only one who escaped alive, at great cost.
He escaped to the Madison town and reported the occurrence in the ⛩️. His report was useful for the preparations. He joined the local task force for that mission; it was better better prepared than the monks to face the threat of the monsters, and it was composed by more rational people.
The task force returned to the ⛩️. The task force killed the bulk of the monsters. Susamuk killed alone one of the monster cubs that tried to attack him, that was dangerous enough to be a threat to a single human. The other cubs were captured to be taken to the city, to be studied, raised, tamed and reproduce in captivity.
Susamuk left the Greenƒіeld county and became an armed mercenary, because he doesn’t have a single moment to waste anymore, neither in that county, nor in that life as a monk.
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Notes: you can use this concept of monsters immune to holy symbols and items in your own stories, replacing it by the holy symbols of your choice. For example, if your story is set in our world, you could use holy symbols of our world: Hamsa (Fatima’s hand) for general Abrahamic religions; for Muslims, the Allah’s name and/or the crescent w/ star; six-pointed stars for ˙Ժews; cruciƒіxes for Christians; Catholic images; etc.
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