Baren Touhk Gazette - March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000 - Volume 2, Number 3

Welcome to the eighth edition of the Baren Touhk Gazette. This is a very special time in our city's history. Baren Touhk celebrates it's first year since the laying of the homestone and Crimson Talender, it's first year as a successful Gorean port. This only happened because of the fine people who populate this city which has become so dear to us all. So as to be expected, we've celebrations and events aplenty. For more information, look at the Anniversary Festival Information Page to learn about auctions and raffles and schedule of events, also take a visit to the Crimson Talender Anniversary Page for more event info and sign our guestbook created just for this celebration.

And speaking of festivals, there are transcripts available of the recent dances, poems, songs and stories as well as the auction at the Winter Festival transcript page. Another feature this month is a Discussion on Collars by DaLath. Don't forget to read the notes from the first girl's desk which has useful information for all. This edition's Third Knowledge column discusses the talker room boards and how to make the most of them. We've poetry and humor, and our other regular columns of, Gorean Trivia and my ramblings.

Very special thanks go out this issue to caemlyn, aurora and lissa for their help in this gazette.

Now without further ado... scroll on down!

As of March 26th, our city houses 143 citizens, among them are 62 Masters, 16 Mistresses, 59 female slaves and 6 male slaves. We would like to encourage more of our FreePersons to spend time in the city... to keep all the lovely, lusty slaves 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.

April 15 - 16 is Baren Touhk's birthday anniversary festival and auction/raffle. Details will be posted later in .show festival as well as at the Crimson Talender Anniversary Page and the Festival Information page.

Warm wishes to kalista, who celebrates her birthday in April.

The City has three new rooms this month; the forest, the parade grounds and the grotto, don't forget to explore these new areas.

Rewards are offered for the capture or information leading to the capture of Alhazred the Pirate, who stole serafina from her Master. The slave carmen is being held and questioned about her involvement in the theft.

The fire in the Crimson Tavern was repaired by Eioun who did an excellent job. Part of the cost was borne by Pip who auctioned himself to pay his rightful share of the bill.

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 rayne at 10 pm Eastern Time
Fridays - with lissa at noon Eastern Time
Saturdays - with caemlyn at 8 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.
The present list is (in alphabetical order) Beowulf, Fane, Kaard, Khim, Lothar, Rask, Talon, Thrain, Uzume, Xavier, and Zara

Please .smail any announcements, birthdays, collarings, silkings or anything else you wish to have included to the newsletter, to caemlyn.

A collection of transcripts from the recent Winter Festival - Read the latest auction as well as the poems, songs, stories and dances presented by citizens.
Information for the First Anniversary Celebration - schedules, information on auctions and raffles, and the latest word on what's happening to celebrate Crimson Talender's first year!
On Collars - DaLath Lor shares with our readers information on the various types of collars found on Gor.
From the First Girl's Desk... - the first girl discusses characters, roleplaying and tavern protocol for slaves.
Third Knowledge Column - This issue we talk about the room message boards, how to make the most of them.
Gorean Trivia III - the fourth consecutive Gorean trivia challenge. (answers are included)
This issue's thoughts, musings and ideas. Kaard climbs up on his soapbox again.

We are immensely pleased to welcome new and returning Freepersons to the city!
Assassin - Wynter, Feyd
Baker - Yorick
Healer - Black
Player - Pulse
Poet/Artist - Sandman, Belial, Edihwar
Scribe - Wain, FireHawk, DaLath
Slaver - Morgan, StormCat
Warrior - Tarak, Raevyn, Domerth, Christophe, Subotai, Akuda, Steffahn, Maelstrom, Rune
Tal and Welcome!

Recent collarings: Thrain - sadira, Beowulf - sulis, FireHawk - olinabelle, Feyd - silvara, Caleb - rayne, Morgan - honey

The city is pleased to welcome the newest slaves to the City and to all those who have studied and worked to new silk levels!
Garden Helpers
layla, meimei, vanessa, tarai, megaera, karina, jini, angel
Black Silks
dove, kalara, natash, tasha, narissa, alanya, claudia, leena, satin, daireen, olinabelle, sheila, tia, kallista
White Silks
eries, silvana, aria, nina
Yellow Silks
aurora, caemlyn, alana
Red Silks
adara

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. Note, today's Third Knowledge column discusses room boards in more detail.
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. Join in on the talk.
The website is constantly being updated. If you have contributions, contact aurora.
Send your poetry to Baren_touhk@hotmail.com to get it added to the web scrolls.
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.
- February 21, 2000 - Festival info, interviews, news, 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.

Partakers of Joy - by aurora
and answer His call - by sasha
Parisa's Flowers - by caemlyn (based upon the legend, Parisa's Tale)

Stories

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

An elderly man walks into a paga tavern tells the owner that he would like a slave for the night. The owner gives him a puzzled look and asks, "Just how old are you, friend?"
"Why," the old patron says, "I'm 148 years old today!"
"One hundred and forty-eight!" the owner exclaims. "Don't you realize you've had it?"
"Oh," he says, "then how much do I owe you?"

***
A young warrior was informed by his captain that he was going to be stationed a long way from home on a remote island in the southern Thassa for almost a year. A few weeks after he got there he began to miss his free companion quite badly so he decided to write her a letter.
"My darling," he wrote "it looks like we're going to be apart for a while. Already I'm starting to miss you and there's really not much to do here in the evenings. Besides visit paga taverns and dally with slaves shipped in. Do you think if I had a hobby of some kind I would not be so tempted?"
So his free companion sent him back a czehar saying, "why don't you learn to play this?"
Eventually his tour of duty came to an end and he rushed back to his wife. "Darling" he said, "I can't wait to get you to the couch so that we make passionate love!"
"First let's see you play that czehar!"

***
Talesthenes, a Captain of Ar was visiting his old friend, Callum, a Captain of Koroba. Talesthenes arrives at the military camp and is greeted by Callum.
They both walk around the place, and Talesthenes asks: "So how are your men?"
"Very well trained," responds Callum
"I hope so," says Talesthenes, "You see, my men of Ar are so well trained, you could see they're the bravest men anywhere."
"Well, my men are very brave, too."
"I'd like to see that."
So Callum calls a young warrior by the name of Talern and says: "Talern! Stop that tharlarion rampaging this way with your body!"
"Are you fucking crazy? It'd kill me, you jerk! I'm out of here!"
As Talern ran away, Callum turned to a bewildered Talasthenes and said: "You see? You have to be pretty damn brave to talk like that to a Captain."

***
There was this guy and he was walking along the side walk dragging his left leg. Then he spotted another man dragging his left leg too. They approached each other and one said, "Siege of Ar?"
The other man said, "Tarlarion dung, about half a pasang back."

***
A man had been drinking at a tavern for hours when he mentioned something about his slave being chained up outside.
The tavernmaster, concerned because it was so cold, went to check on her. When he looked outside the door, the drunk man's friend, Tol, and his slave girlfriend going at it as she was chained to the ring outside the tavern. The tavernmaster shook his head and walked back inside. He told the drunk that he thought it might be a good idea to check on his slave.
The man staggered outside and saw Tol and his slave entwined, then walked back into the tavern laughing. "What's so funny?" the tavernmaster asked.
"That damned Tol!" the drunk chortled, "He's so drunk, he thinks he's me!"

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Next issue to come out by April 30.
Contact Kaard@yahoo.com for submissions, ideas, comments and criticisms.

Last updated March 31, 2000