437: Czech folklore: House of the Dragon

🍼 If your parent goes through the trouble of getting you superpowers...

Kind of the least you can do is get them a new house. And fight all the dragons infesting that house. And get their increasingly specific and dangerous medical treatments for their very real and not made-up illnesses.

😈 The Creature: Sisimito

I did not know the Soviets had a secret program to create Chimpanzee-human hybrid. That's almost unrelated to the Sisimito. Almost.

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