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D20
These peculiar peasants wear
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bonnets sewn with scraps of dyed cloth to resemble flowers.
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belts hung with clattering slats of horn and antler.
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shirts with astoundingly voluminous sleeves.
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horsehair cilices, to scourge themselves of venality.
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boots with split snake-tongue toes.
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masks of a sort of painted papyrus, with comical features and colours.
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mantles embroidered with their family history in an inconsistent combination of literal and abstract depictions.
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an orange resinous polish on their teeth and nails.
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blood-stained kerchiefs to signal their willingness to fight for their rights.
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the mummified heads of their deceased pet cats as amulets.
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iron rings adorned with chunks of salt.
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nothing coloured blue, and they react poorly to those who do.
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headbands with rabbit ears glued to them - sudden prosperity, brushes with death, and the like are excuses to add more ears.
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long skirts regardless of gender, sewn with loops to hold tools.
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lines of chalk face-paint reminescent of a bare skull.
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ashen cosmetics to pale their hands and ears.
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a curly-tipped dagger on their hip - the mark of their
initiation into adulthood. That initiation involves sacrificing an
animal and burying its bones - the sort of animal and the location of
its bones are held to be potent occult secrets.
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copper disk anklets, the more they can afford the
better. The truly wealthy can have trouble bending their knees with how
many they wear.
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yellow-grass chokers as a charm against hunger and gluttony.
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necklaces strung with glazed clay eyes to ward off evil magic.
D20
These peculiar peasants inhabit
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polypore-pocked log cabins.
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woven reed huts.
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hollow piles of sod.
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cabins raised on stilts.
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domed stacks of mud and tree trunks like beaver dams.
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stone barrows, alongside the dusty remains of their ancestors.
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sun-baked mud-brick cubes.
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dug-out shelters in the sides of deep pits.
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patched-up and piled-up tumbledown ruins.
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underground villages carved out from soft rock.
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multi-family apartments built like walled honeycombs around central shared courtyards.
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wattle-and-daub cottages.
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rock-lined trenches.
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labyrinthine complexes dug into cliff-faces.
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semi-nomadic wagon caravans.
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caves painted on every surface by dozens of generations.
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yurts made from the hides of many animals stitched together to resemble a balled-up chimera.
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the stalks of giant petrified mushrooms.
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floating raft-houses.
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ancient shelters made from the bones of beached whales with sheets of woven baleen tied between them.
D20
These peculiar peasants subsist
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on deep-growing, torso-sized tubers. Excavating then requires days of teamwork.
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on the regurgitated fodder and meat of wooly grubs that must be rolled around their grazing grounds.
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on the fish and algae they can reap from the sea.
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on the carefully-drained blood of beasts that have slumbered beneath the earth for eons.
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on pudding made from the caecotrophs of the giant rabbits they herd.
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on bread pounded from the inner bark of fast-growing trees.
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on bitter berries grown in brambly hedges.
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on bur-like nuts harvested by driving sheep through the fields then picking the nuts out of their wool.
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on a fungus they grow on piles of fallen leaves.
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on fist-sized ticks they allow to fatten themselves on their herds of skinny cattle.
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on kudzu-like beans that grow everywhere rapidly. You have to eat piles of the things to get even a modicum of nutrients.
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on a paste made from migratory butterflies, harvested in massive numbers as they pass twice a year.
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on a thick and off-putting wine. The harsh fermentation
process is the only thing that can make their water supply and rough
cereals edible.
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off a soporific-sapped lettuce-leaf that grows up to a man's shoulder, and puts him to sleep if he makes a meal of it.
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on locust-hordes caught up and stuffed in pots of honey to preserve them.
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off the eggs of twisty-tongued ducks that're able to pluck up this'n'that creature of the soil.
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on the nutritious, organic tar that bubbles up on their land.
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on the fatty nuts of bonsai conifers.
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on stinking, fermented jellies made from buried hay.
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on yolk “milked” from the cloacas of oversized cow-hens.
D20
These peculiar peasants are troubled by
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their lord’s child, a vicious and unaccountable bully.
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the recently increased zealousness of their priest, and that priest’s castigations of them for drinking and playing music.
3
a pack of wolves that have learned that lone and drunken people are easier prey than deer.
4
freakish and devastating weather that seems to emanate from an abandoned tower nearby.
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a surging plague that lengthens and fuses victims' hair into a frizzy cocoon, liquefying them within.
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treasure hunters following rumours of buried gold nearby.
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a suspected witch among them accused of casting curses.
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a heavier burden of taxation laid on them to fund a war.
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brigands who've set up in an old ruined fort nearby.
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giant bats with the heads of fat and sharp-toothed
children that seem obsessed with ruining their preparations for an
upcoming feast.
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a fanatic attempting to recruit them for a people's crusade.
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an idealistic monarchist seeking the true heir to the throne among them.
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a slimy, sleazy siren taking up residence in their favourite well.
14
the leaders of a failed revolt holing up in their homes, and the sheriff pursuing those rebels.
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an offended spirit undermining their livelihood.
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their children inexplicably being born as monsters.
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a landslide that revealed an entrance into a dungeon, releasing its foulness onto the land.
18
too many youths moving away to the city, prefering to try their luck there than make a living in the traditional fashion.
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an intelligent monster lairing nearby, demanding tribute in treasure or victims.
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an expanding market network making it more profitable to grow narcotics, with the criminal element coming along with that.
D20
These peculiar peasants entertain themselves
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by telling tall tales to passers-by.
2
by doing barbershop quartet-style singing.
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by kicking the skulls of those their families killed in ancient blood feuds between posts.
4
by practicing a martial art which uses a quarterstaff or a pair of wooden rods.
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by wrestling boars. Children begin with piglets.
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by playing dice and making ridiculous wagers, like ownership over particularly squiggly clouds.
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by dressing up as bogeymen and frightening children.
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with contests of poetry.
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by hitting precise targets with sling-stones.
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by electing a ceremonial queen who leads them in imaginative festivities.
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with traditional dances.
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with feats of strength and memory.
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by attempting to tame wild beasts into harmless pets.
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with raucous, improvisational theater.
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by attempting to predict the weather by various divinations.
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by hurling darts into rings.
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with the breeding of ever-more-flamboyant blossoms.
