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District 1 · Apepixel City
Inkbit Apes
1,111 pixel apes printed in ink. 11 came out wrong.
WHERE THEY CAME FROM
Apepixel City, New Year's Eve, 1999. A power surge hit a tiny back-alley print shop and woke up an old dot-matrix printer that had spent thirty years printing menus and lottery slips.
It didn't print menus. It printed apes, pixel by pixel, in thick black ink. By the time the fuse blew there were 1,111 sheets on the floor.
WHO THEY ARE
The Inkbit Apes are the founders of the Kingdom. Every other district, every other character, traces back to the ink that came out of that printer.
Eleven sheets came out wrong: inverted, double-struck, melted. The shop owner called them the Misprints and slipped them back into the stack. Nobody knows which numbers they are hiding behind.
WHAT THEY DO
The apes still run Apepixel City. They keep the old press alive, and the press still prints: Press Cards for the shop's workers, and sealed crates down at the Harbour Garage for the apes who hold enough of both.
Sailors in the harbour of Apepixel City have been trading strange cards printed on sailcloth. They call them the Inkbit Tides: 5,555 pirate cards from 444 designs, in twenty tiers, with one Sovereign card at the very top.
Unlike anything the old press has printed before, these cards come with a game. Inkbit News has printed the full rules, from building a 40-card deck around your Captain to the twelve ability keywords. The mint date will be announced here first.
Press Cards hold the highest floor in the Kingdom at about $0.31, followed by the Apes at $0.23. Fighter tickets have settled at $0.13 after the tournament rush, still held by 1,842 households.
The Pet Meadows had the busiest day, with almost $5 traded in 24 hours. The Wild Ones remain the most traded collection overall, at about $16.84. Prices are in US dollars as shown on OpenSea and move every hour. This is a newspaper, not financial advice.
The reprint at the old print shop is slow but steady: 162 of 1,111 Inkbit Apes are now on paper, and the first sheets have already traded at around $0.22.
All eleven Misprints are still somewhere in the unprinted stack.
The night shift at the old print shop in Apepixel City has fired up the dot-matrix printer one more time. 1,000 Inkbit Apes are still in the stack, and the shop is letting them go cheap: about 1 THB each for the next 500 sheets, then about 2 THB. Five per wallet.
Somewhere in that stack are all eleven Misprints, still face down. Nobody, not even the shop owner, will see which sheet is which until the print run ends and the apes are revealed.
Neighbours of the old print shop in Apepixel City say the printer has been humming at night again. Eleven Misprints are still hiding somewhere in the stack, and the ape print run closes on October 29.
The Press Card stack, meanwhile, is gone: all 555 cards went in about twenty minutes.
