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By analogconvert13

The Pot of Baba Yaga.

It's a long story but I'll try to keep it short:  We've both been down with some nasty chest bug and feeling that hot and sour soup is the only thing that would help.  Yesterday we went to the Asian supermarket, bought all the ingredients, including the chicken feet to make the stock.  Today, my editor went to work to produce a great steaming vat of hot and sour soup for the souls.  The macabre-looking chicken feet were left over having been plucked from the stock, when in wandered a Blipper...
The reference is to an evil witch in Slavic mythology who resides in a hut which stands on the legs of a chicken.  This image is one of the movements - entitled "The Hut of Baba Yaga" - of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".  Not having a genuine witch's hut on hand, I had to improvise...

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