Price Family Field Guide

Price Family Field Guide Duplicity Edition AESLIN MICE ALBINO CARP CITY-WIDE MANIFESTATIONS DRESITA HISTORY NOTES Aeslin Mice From my own world, there are two representatives of the species here. If found, please contact Dominic Price for their safe return. The Aeslin mouse can be distinguished from the common field mouse by its more developed forepaws, and by its tendency to dress in clothing and jewelry fashioned from bones, bits of fabric, and things it has managed to steal from the kitchen junk drawer. The Aeslin mouse has a highly sophisticated society, centered around a devout religious class. Each colony of Aeslin mice to have been recorded has worshiped a different god or set of gods. These have included, but were not limited to, a large oak tree, a roll-top desk, and Caroline Davies's chickens. The colony currently living in the Price family attic worships the family. It is generally believed that these religious leanings are intended to keep the colony unified, and to prevent straying from places of safety. Religious schisms occur every three to five generations, with groups of younger mice splitting off and leaving the parent colony to find new gods. To date, none of these child colonies have been heard from again. Artwork by Kory Bing. Albino Carp In winter of the third year we were here, a pond of the Perfidy Springs in the Down froze over. At that point rumours circulated that one lucky ice fisher might catch a large albino carp, the rarest sight and a prized catch. The one who catches and spares its life was said to have one wish granted, no strings attached. There was also talk that the fish may have been originally a pet of the Creator’s that was flushed in its infancy, although that talk didn't seem to have much belief. I don't know if the carp was found, or if it granted a wish when it was. City-Wide Manifestations On multiple occasions there have been manifestations that have seemed to affect the city as a whole. The most recent occurrence of these was in mid-January of this year. It took the form then of creatures of imagination, but on other occasions there have been harpies, or people with the appearance of those we knew from our worlds, who have never been here except for those moments. The Dresita There is no evidence that the Dresita are anything other than human, but they represent a significant enough subculture to be included here. According to their own words, they were a group of unhappy Dominants who left Duplicity to get away from the luxury and the unhappiness they found in it. Their leader calls herself the Domadora, a woman who dresses herself in finery and lives above the rest, keeping evil at bay by martyring herself to the sweet temptations of riches. As a people who believe that luxuries can only hold one down and tempt them into sin, they live purely on what they're given. The cave offers plenty of small fauna and flora to take advantage of, the rock their residences, they use a bartering system in the market that stars centerfold in front of the Domadora's accommodations, yet they accept Duplicity's currency all the same... Be careful with them. Rumor says that you can join them, but then that you can never go back. Sex is a sin, and yet they will solicit people for it, viewing sin as something that can be passed from person to person. history. HISTORY GOES HERE notes. NOTES GO HERE OOC. Snow • Dominic Price

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