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WOOHOO! Two Doclopedia posts today, kids!
The Doclopedia #419
The Alphabet, Again:H is for…Horned Rat Oil
On several Earths where magic rules, the oil derived from the liver fat of the Horned Rat is a very valuable component in many potions and elixirs. It is also extremely expensive, since Horned Rats are solitary, live in extremely remote areas, are vicious fighters and possess a deadly poison in both their bite and horns. Additionally, a large Horned Rat can weigh 75 pounds and move with extraordinary speed. Most adventurers who have lived through one encounter with one of them will not want to have a second go of it. Still, with freshly killed Horned Rats going for as much as $10.00 a pound, there are plenty of hard up adventurers ready to go hunting them.
The Doclopedia #420
The Alphabet, Again: J is for…Jateer
Jateer is a city on Venus, just a few kilometers from the Venusian north pole. Unlike most of the planet, which is a steaming jungle, the areas near the poles are temperate and therefore preferred by humans. Jateer is primarily a spaceport, but does have healthy agricultural and tourism businesses. 860,000 people live there, most of them British Indians. The next largest nationality are Americans, followed by other Europeans, Chinese, Indians and Russian Jews.
Much of Jateer is underground, to maximize usable surface land, but there are also three half mile high towers that house nearly 400,000 people. A fourth tower is slated for construction starting in 1982.
Every May 3rd, the citizens of Jateer celebrate Landing Day, that day in 1897 when the First Royal Venusian Expeditionary Force landed on the planet just a few miles from where Jateer is today. There are food cook offs, plays, drinking contests and many other attractions and events. This all attracts as many as half a million visitors from around Venus and the rest of the Inner Solar System.
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