• 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. Make sure to check them out at at https://members.tripod.com/Baren_Touhk/help/index.htm Thanks to Khim, serafina, relique, sulis, aurora, Fane, sadira and telma and others for their hard work. Don't forget, you can read the help files online as well. Just type ".help show" for a list of files available.

• December 4 is the Masquerade Ball which will also be an Auction and raffle. Look in this issue for more info on the raffle, next issue will have more details of the acution.

• November is raffle month....smail aurora your offer.The drawing will be on December 4th at the Ball/Auction. type .show news. No credits will be handed out... so freepersons should make thier raffle ticket prices low as slaves will not have large amounts of credits to spend. The 700 credits rule for slaves is not in effect until after the Ball.

• There has been some new code loaded. Go to port 6000 and sign up to help test the new code implementation. If all goes well with it, you'll see it at CT.
  Already being loaded into CT are some new commands. Look in .help for: claimItem, clearItem, key, listItems, listrooms, lock, releaseItem, toybag, unlockItem, useItem,
  Next issue will go over some of the particulars of these new features.

• jade has been given the silver belt of the city and now functions as the city's "third-girl-in-training." She brings with her a wealth of Gorean knowledge. Among her responsibilities are New User Orientations.

• Due to some issues regarding copyright, links to individual citizen's pages were removed from the main set of pages. To view individual Gor pages, go to https://members.tripod.com/Baren_Touhk/BTcitizens.htm

• Among the new citizen roleplayers are a baby tarn, a panther cub, and a gatch. Unsure what a gatch is? Check out https://members.tripod.com/Baren_Touhk/help/animals.htm(Note: You won't find Gatch under G but you will find Gatch under A for armored gatch.)

Third Knowledge - This edition features a discussion on talker programs contributed by Captain Fane.

Raffle Information - Information regarding raffles.

This issue's thoughts, musings and ideas - Kaard

Holiday Season Thoughts - A holiday season appeal.

• The city welcomes its newest Freepersons: Zara (Scribe), Beowulf (Warrior), Thrudd (Warrior), Vitellius (Scribe), Guarn (Warrior), Tayla (Assasin), and Flar (Assasin). Tal and Welcome!

• Recent collarings: Xavier - nina; Morgan - honeygirl

The city welcomes the newest slaves to the City: ceri, wendy, alika, sadira, luuta, taizu, elf, jade, priya, mariah, honeygirl, adara, faith, lissa and kadara. Greetings to all!

Silkings

New Garden Helpers

• luuta
• taizu
• kalara

Newly Silked in Black

• alika
• lissa
• lefaye
• ceri
• wendy
• elf
• jade
• priya
• mariah
• honeygirl
• adara
• faith

Newly Silked in White

• nina

Newly Silked in Yellow

• sadira
• relique
• telma
• sasha

Newly Silked in Red

• shauri

• 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.

• December 4 - Masquerade Ball and auction/raffle - more info in the next issue. But start thinking of your costume, your bids, and the raffles!

• Khim, Scribe of Baren Touhk, has updated her webscrolls. Looks for a whole new crop of information regarding everything under Tor-to-Gor.

• 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 room boards are being used more, you are missing fun if you do not read them

• The mailing list and web EZboard are seeing more use too, get involved in the discussions

• 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!

We're pleased to be able to present some of the works of our resident poets. They do their Caste proud.

Can you hear the raindrops a'fallen... - by Xavier

a beating heart within the silence... - by sasha

Humor

It was a dark, stormy, night. A young Warrior was on his first assignment, and it was guard duty.
A Captain stepped out taking his hunting sleen for a walk. The nervous young warrior snapped to attention, made a perfect salute, and snapped out "Sir, Good evening, Sir!"
The Captain, out for some relaxation, returned the salute and said "Good evening soldier, nice night, isn't it?"
Well it wasn't a nice night, but the warrior wasn't going to disagree with the Captain, so the he saluted again and replied "Sir, Yes Sir!".
The Captain continued, "You know there's something about a stormy night that I find soothing, it's really relaxing. Don't you agree?"
The warrior didn't agree, but he was just a private, and responded "Sir, Yes Sir!"
The Captain, pointing at the sleen, "This is a Northern Hunting Sleen, the best type of sleen to train."
The warrior glanced at the snapping hissing beast, saluted yet again and said "Sir, Yes Sir!"
The Captain continued "I got this sleen for my Free Companion."
The young warrior hesistated briefly in the rain and simply said "Good trade Sir!"

***

A Merchant came home from a long business trip to find his son astride a very fancy riding tharlation. "Where did you get the money for that fine beast? It must have cost 30 silver tarsks."
"Easy, Father," the boy replied. "I earned it hiking."
"Come now," the Merchant said. "Tell me the truth."
"That is the truth," the boy replied. "Every night you were gone, the guard from the Second Watch would come over to see Mother. He'd give me a tarsk and tell me to take a hike!"

***

There was once were two Peasants who lived in huts side by side who went by the names Gam and Ham. For as long as any could remember the two have been feuding. Gam owned a prize vulo hen and each morning would look in his garden and pick up one of his hen's eggs for breakfast.
One day Gam looked outside and saw that the hen had laid an egg in the Ham's garden. He was about to go next door when he saw Ham pick up the egg. Gam ran up to Ham and told him that the egg belonged to him because he owned the hen. Ham disagreed because the egg was laid on his property.
They argued for a while until finally Gam said, "In my family we normally solve disputes by the following actions: I kick you in the balls and time how long it takes you to get back up, then you kick me in the balls and time how long it takes for me to get up, whomever gets up quicker wins the egg."
Ham considered this and agreed to this and so Gam went and found his heaviest pair of boots and put them on, he took a few steps back, then ran towards Ham and kicked as hard as he could in the balls.
Ham fell to the floor clutching himself howling in agony for 30 minutes.
Eventually he stood up and said to Gam, "Now it's my turn to kick you."
Gam smirked and said, "Keep the damn egg."

***

A certain ship's Captain had six children and was very proud of his achievement. He was so proud of himself that he started calling his Free Companion, "Mother of Six," in spite of her objections.
One day they went to a festival. Eventually the Captain decided that it was time to go home, and wanted to find out if his Free Companion was ready to leave as well. He shouted at the top of his voice, "Shall we go home, Mother of Six?"
His Free Companion, irritated by her loud Captain's lack of discretion shouted back, "Anytime you're ready, Father of Four!"

Next issue to come out by December 1.
Contact Kaard@yahoo.com for submissions, ideas, comments and criticisms.

Last updated November 8, 1999