triggeringThis #fedidreams could be triggering to certain people, but I can't really CW it without giving it away. Anyway, in the dream, I was either trying to create a new character in an online game, complete some kind of quest in a fantasy land, or join a dungeons and dragons group; it kept shifting. But what was clear was that to complete my somewhat mercurial objective, I had to defeat Gakleon The Riddle Master by solving his riddle. The #riddle was: "When I come without warning in the night, I leave the silence of small devastation. I undo God's second work on Adam and make Rachel weep." I had two guesses, and got both of them wrong. So Gakleon told me the correct answer, then announced that I was stupid to all of the other players, and everyone laughed at me. Then I woke up. Are you smarter than me? Can you defeat Gakleon The Riddle master, when I couldn't? Some hints to make it easier for you, that I didn't get in the dream: 1. My incorrect guesses were "covid-19" and "the angel of death". 2. You'll need good knowledge of both the old and new testaments of the Christian Bible. 3. It was a riddle in a dream, so while the logic mostly holds, it doesn't quite work completely. Multiple correct answers are probably possible.
If nobody guesses it, or even wants to try (and I don't blame you), I'll post the answer in this thread tonight! My dream did give me an actual original riddle though, so I thought some of you might wanna take a crack at it.
triggeringOkay! Time for the answer. First, congrats to @tardis, and @jscholes for playing. While it is devastating, an accessibility cookie is not, in fact, the answer. The world's first fedidreams award goes to @modulux, for getting the closest with his guess of "smothering". Note: fedidreams awards are completely virtual awards that aren't tracked by anyone and that nobody cares about. They can't be redeemed for anything. Enjoy your award!
And now, the answer. First, the bible passages you needed: * "God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." -- Genesis 2:7. The man was Adam, and God's first act of creation on him was forming him from the dust, and his second action was breathing life into him. Thus, undoing the second action would be taking life away. * "This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”" -- Jeremiah 31:15. Rachel was weeping because her children were dead. * “A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted, Because they are no more.” -- Matthew 2:18. Making it clear that the children were babies, IE the babies killed by Herod.
Second, the rest explained: * It comes at night, IE while a baby is sleeping * It leaves silence, because the baby is no longer breathing. Parents in North America often use baby monitors to hear that the baby is still breathing. Not hearing this would be devastating.
Thus, the answer is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It kills babies suddenly in the night.
