Welcome to the seventh edition of the Baren Touhk Gazette. And hey! We have
another raffle coming up, and shortly after, the Winter Festival featuring
more raffles, auctions and games! So make sure to check out the latest in news and make your plans for this Saturday.
Also featured in this issue is a chat with Beowulf and sadira brought to us by nyia. the first girl's desk has some useful info on collars summarized there. We have two of our regular features, Gorean Trivia and my ramblings, and to top that off, three poems from citizens, a story offer, and some "You know you've been on Gor too long when..."
Very special thanks go out this issue to caemlyn, nyia and lissa. All three stood up and answered my call for assistance with the gazette. All three have made this humble Gazeteer's life easier.
Now without further ado... let's see what's happening!
As of February 19th, our city houses 117 citizens, among them are 47 Masters, 15 Mistresses, 51 female slaves and 4 male slaves. We would like to encourage more of our FreePersons to spend time in the city... to keep all the lovely, lusty slavegirls bright eyed and bushy tailed.
Congratulations to Those Masters and Mistresses who have claimed new slaves this month and to those slaves who've been newly owned.
Warm wishes to Daireen who celebrates her birthday on March 10th and to autumn, who celebrates her birthday on March 12th.
Congratulations and thank you's go to nyia, who's waterfall has quickly become very popular among the citizens of Baren Touhk; to sulis, for giving the city its wonderful kennels; to Flar, who gaves us the Practice Servery; to Kaard and aurora for bringing the city its arena, and to Thrain, who needed a place for RPing combat in the first place. Don't forget to explore these new areas.
serafina will be taking a break from her duties as second girl of the city. She will be returning to her duties on April 1st. The city joins together in wishing her a good break and we look forward to her resuming as second girl.
The fire in the Crimson Tavern will be repaired, Kaard is currently taking bids from the builders of the city and will award the job to one among them. The Council thanks KarArt for taking responsibility for his part of what was clearly an accident, and commends his sterling sense of responsibility. Pip the Fool is being sought for questioning and citizens are urged to report any strange sightings of people unknown to the homestone. It is possible that an as yet unidentified individual also may share responsibility for the fire, having made the servery unsafe.
Captain Fane has stepped down from his position in the Council, the city thanks him for his service and wishes him well, he now serves as a council advisor. Rask, Beowulf and Martellus are welcomed as the newest Council members and the city thanks council advisors Thrain, Zara, Imhotep, amd Ariakan for all their help in the council this month. Congratulations to sadira and to sulis who are now the first girls of Crimson Tavern and the Talender Inn respectively.
February 26th is the Baren Touhk Winter Festival. Dance performances and lessons are scheduled from 5 - 6 pm Eastern time; poetry readings, songs, games and skits will be held between 7 - 8 pm Eastern Time and the slave auction will be held at 10 pm. Please contact aurora if you wish to perform and with auction and raffle entries. Raffle winners will be notified by mail.
April 1 - 2 is Baren Touhk's birthday anniversary festival and auction/raffle. Details will be posted later in .show festival.
New User Orientations are being held daily, the schedule currently is: Sundays - with sadira at 8 pm Eastern Time, Mondays - with sasha at 6 pm Eastern Time, Tuesdays - with cheri at 8 pm Eastern Time, Wednesdays - with aurora at 2 pm Eastern Time, Thursdays - with sulis at 1 pm Eastern Time, Fridays - with lissa at noon Eastern Time and Saturdays - with caemlyn at 4 pm Eastern Time. Special arrangements to have New User Orientations at other times can be made by contacting aurora, sulis, sadira, lissa, cheri, sasha, or caemlyn to see if they are available at another time, but try to make one of the scheduled times if at all possible. For those interested in learning about gorean foods and drinks aurora is available for help in the Practice Servery on Sundays at 8 pm Eastern Time.
Please Note: a new addition has been added to Rule 14.... "No citizen may kill another, only Citizen Roleplay Characters may die, if they consent, and this must be done in the arena." A new command has been added, .show CG will list members of the Crimson Guild, the only Masters and Mistresses authorized to train slaves.
Please .smail any announcements, birthdays, collarings, silkings or anything else you wish to have included to the newsletter, to caemlyn.
The Baren Touhk Gazette is in need of assistance. Anyone willing to
take on a regular role in ensuring a steady update of the should contact
Kaard@yahoo.com for further info.
Anyone who has additions to any of the Gor help webpages can send
aurora the text file or html to the CT email addy in her profile.
The room boards are being used more, you are missing fun if you do not read them
Lately we've been getting record number of users logged on at once.
Membership is high and participation is high. This says a lot about us as
a community. Growing in leaps and bounds!
There are new help pages posted. Don't forget, you can read the help
files online as well. Just type ".help show" for a list of files
available.
The Ubar grants credit to all that bring visitors here (500 credits)
or help
newbies in the portal (300 credits), plus has been paying generously to
others that have performed various services to the city
Request:--please do not use the Crimson_Tavern, Talender_Inn, or
home_stone as an entry point into the talker unless you plan to STAY once
you log in. Slaves are reminded to use the slave_gathering for exit and
entry. Freepersons could use entry sites such as the Ship, Dock, Portal,
Tarn or simply the Freepersons_Hall.
The mailing list
is seeing more use. Check out the amusements section for a sample of one of the threads going on, but serious discussions take place too.
The website is
constantly being updated. If you have contributions, contact aurora.
Webpages-if you need help making a gor webpage for your citizen
character, see the help pages on the CT site. Please .smail your link to
aurora or send her the html to Baren_touhk@hotmail.com and she
will load it onto the CT site. We encourage all citizens to make a Gor
page, even if it is very basic it is much appreciated.
Past issues of the Baren Touhk Gazette can be reviewed if you missed
it.
August
8, 1999 - Features info on new help files, news and announcements
August 29, 1999 - Features Kajuralia
information, interview with Khim, and the legends of Baren Touhk
September 29, 1999 - Features Kajuralia
logs, Harvest Festival logs, and much more!
November 8, 1999 - Features discussion on
talkers, news, silkings, poetry and humor.
November 30, 1999 - Features interview
with Captain Fane, information on the Masquerade Ball, Gorean Trivia,
silkings, poetry and humor.
January 12, 2000 - Features info on the upcoming Winter Festival, transcript of the Masquerade Ball acution, .show files, Gorean Trivia, silkings, poetry and humor.
We're pleased to be able to present some of the works of our citizens. They do their city proud.
caemlyn has a number of stories she is making available to citizens who mail in a request. The first is presently untitled, but is very explicit, so be forwarned *wink*. Those who wish a copy should mail a request to caemlyn.
Humor
Here is a list taken from a recent thread on the CT mailing list.
You know you've been in Gor too long:
When your significant other says, "Heel!" ..... and you get to
them before the dog does....
You refer to your car as a tarn or other riding animal
You meet someone and not ask where they're from, but rather where
their homestone lies
You are distrustful of people not from your homestone, er.. city
You enter Dunkin Donuts and say, "bring me blackwine, heavy on the
bosk milk, with two red sugars and one yellow
You introduce yourself as "Bob of Turia"
You enter a restaurant and drop to your knees beside the doorway and beg for entrance.
Before you leave the restaurant you beg permission to leave from the
waiter.
You walk into your neighborhood bar and bellow, Paga!"
You walk into a local bar and, on your knees, beg permission to enter
You see a boa constrictor at the local zoo and say, "What a cute baby
Hith!"
You name your racing greyhound "Ubara's Pride"
You call the local pet store inquiring about tarns
You go to a circus and skoff at the lion tamers saying, "I'd like to
see him try that with a sleen!"
Your friends admire your collection of leather/silks
When your typing out an invoice at work and instead of Material and labor you type Masters and labor
When you answer the phone by saying Greetings
When your thoughts of what you should be doin are spoken to you using
'this girl' then slip and say it out loud.
You walk into the bank and open your mouth to receive the coins and hold a pouch open expecting the teller to put the money in it for you.
You walk through the grocery store saying things like... "aurora wiggles down aisle five with her silks fluttering about her thighs and a bright smile as she searches for the perfect brand of blackwine for Master"
You do not own a single stitch of clothing except the silks you have on
Next issue to come out by March 25. Contact Kaard@yahoo.com for submissions, ideas,
comments and criticisms.
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Next issue to come out by March 25.