Monday 18 October 2010

Sa Tarna Harvest Festival

The days grow shorter as the month of Se'Kara and the second turning approaches; and the Sa-Tarna, the Life-Daughter, in the fields turns golden, rich with the promise of a plentiful harvest ~ and food for the winter.

As the slaves begin the harvest, working from sunrise  into the night, thoughts turn to the festival, the time of great rejoicing as the harvest is brought home.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the United Continent of Gor (UCG) Sa-Tarna Harvest Festival. The Festival will be celebrated during the Second Hand of the Eighth Month, 10,160 CA (October 22, 23, and 24.)

Come one, come all, to three days of contests, dances, and prizes, prizes, prizes hosted by ten Gorean cities.

Hosted by:  

  • Isle of Tabor
  • Isle of the Two Scimitars
  • Hillcrest
  • Tabor East
  • Tabor Tropics
  • Scimitar Plains 
  • Three Winds
  • Village of Nyundo                        
  • Northern Tabor
  • Hulneth Bay

With the Participation of:

  • Thassa Mercs
  • Mur Slave Academy 
  • Etihad Outlaws



SCHEDULE OF EVENTS  (All times SL):

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22
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5:30-6 PM         Scimitar Plains                    

  • Festival Opening Harvest RP
  • Initiate Blessing of the Harvest



6 PM onwards    Isle of the Two Scimitars - Town Square and Tavern

  • Festival Opening
  • IC Dance & Bonfire


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SATURDAY OCTOBER 23
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8AM - 9AM       Tabor
  • Opening Ceremony
  • Blessing of the Initiates
  • Coronation of King and Queen


Coronation Details:

Prizes: L$1500, Crown,  Banderole for each,  Queen and King.

Coronation Rules


Only IC People can Vote.

The Winner of each category, Queen and King, will get the prizes of L$1500 each.

Voting will be by competition board on the scheduled Time.


9-10 AM       Northern Tabor
  • Canoe Races   
Canoe Race Rules

  1. Canoes and paddles can be rezzed at the NE corner dock of the Northern Tabor sim.
  2. Line up at the big Starting/Finish Line near the dock.  Wait for the Judge to count down and announce GO!
  3. Follow the large red arrows along the course.  The course will cross sim borders.   It will feel like you have stopped when at a sim crossing - KEEP PRESSING THE FORWARD ARROW KEY!  After a few seconds you will begin moving again.
  4. First 3 racers to make it back to the Starting/Finish Line win!

Prizes are:   1st Place:  $2000L, 2nd Place:  $1000L, 3rd Place: $500L

10-11 AM       Three Winds South

  • Flying Fur

Jump down from the lighthouse in Three Winds South and try to land on the red spot.


What's needed:
A well trained body …you have to climb hundreds of steps to get to the top.
You should be able to swim….no lifeguard present.
Not afraid of heights.


The contest itself:

Every minute 1 person may enter the lighthouse and start climbing….get the flying “fur”…
Click the safety rod…and jump…..say in chat…”pull”   …..and try to land on the red spot.
Keep in mind….it’s hard.

You can jump as often as you like depending on the number of participants. Only one hit counts.

The people who hit the red spot share  L$ 2000 no matter which part of your body hits the red spot.



11 AM-1 PM     Tabor                      

  • Kaissa Tournament 
  • IC Dance
  • Nyundo Trivia


1-3 PM     Isle of the Two Scimitars

  • Slave Dance Competition 

One of the centerpiece competitions of the Harvest Festival will be the Slave Dance Competition, held on the Isle of the Two Scimitars.  Enjoy the flowing sensual moves and the erotic and mesmerizing emotes by Gor's best dancers.  This is a judged competition, and there will be an audience favorite award as well.  Both kajirae and kajiri are eligible to compete.


SLAVES: CONTACT WIL MIMULUS, TEALE MCMAHON OR JIMMIE HAMMILL IF YOU WISH TO PERFORM YOUR FAVORITE DANCE AND BRING HONOR AND GLORY TO YOUR MASTER OR MISTRESS!!

Judged Competition Prizes: 1st-L$3,000; 2nd-L$2,000; 3rd- L$1,000
Audience Award Prize: L$2,000


3-5 PM     Tabor 

  • Slave/Free Auction 

The Rules:


  • All proceeds for the sales will be split 50/50 between the slave's Homestone city and the slave being sold.  This will be fund raiser to put coin into the city treasuries for city operations.
  • For the temporary enslavements (slave or Free!), buyers are awarded the services of their purchase for three (3) hours with the time and exact details to be worked out by mutual agreement.  Have fun any way you like, no commitments, no strings attached, what happens there stays there.  ;-)
  • And there's more!  Some of the Tabor City slaves will be auctioned to new owners.  Aye!  You read that right.  We'll be auctioning some of our slaves for permanent ownership.  So bring your coin.  Bids start at L$2500.  Buyers are awarded their slaves as their legal Gorean private slave.
  • All those being auctioned should report to the market at 2:30PM SLT for line up and viewing.  There'll be some that will want to view and interview their potential purchases.


5 PM onwards     Tabor Tropics

  • Sa Tarna Bonfire Dance                        

ALL DAY EVENTS

Harvest carnival - Tabor
10 AM - 6 PM Kissing Booth -  Tabor (Hosted by Thassa Mercs)
Art Competition Exhibition - Three Winds
Yard Sale - Tabor East
Open Taverns - Throughout the cluster
Bathing - Scimitar Baths

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SUNDAY OCTOBER 24
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8-10 AM     Hillcrest

  • Tarn Races


  1. No entrance fee.
  2. Free Tarns are available from the Tabor Tarn House located in SW Tabor.  All racers must use a tarn from this house.
  3. Best of Three Rounds.
  4. One tarnsman at a time will race the course, due to starting gate logistics.
  5. Wait for the judge to give you the go ahead.
  6. Click on the starting gate to open it, then race the course.  Your time begins once the gate is opened.
  7. Tarnsmen must pass thru all gates - the closing gate keeps track of gates passed through.  If a 
  8. gate(s) is missed then the scoring will be adjusted accordingly.  Gates score first, then times.  



Prizes:    First Place     L$ 2000
Second Place     L$ 1000
Third Place     L$ 500


10 AM-Noon     Hulneth Bay


  • Mur Academy Wagon Races           
  1. Contestants make yourselves ready in the "Ready area" and line up at the Starting Line to begin.
  2. Each race will have no more than 8 chariots in a 'leg'. (Or the lag gets bad.)
  3. During the 'leg', Riders for the next race will wait in the Ready Area.
  4. The winners of each leg of the race will be noted, and face the winners of the next leg in a TWO LAP race to determine 1st, 2nd & 3rd places.

Prizes: 1st Place: 2000L
2nd Place: 1000L
3rd Place: 500L


Noon-2 PM     Isle of the Two Scimitars

  • Warrior Run - Slave Hunt                

Welcome to the Scimitar Warrior Run/Slave Hunt Competition -  where Masters and Mistresses chase and cap slaves.. and each other.  The winning Master/Mistress with the most caps is honored with a prize as is the slave captured the least  number of times!!   You may want to make yourself familiar with the lands of Scimitar and Scimitar Plains prior to the competition if you have not been here.


Objective . . .To have some fun, test your resolve and get bruised up a bit!

All participants will gather to begin the game at Scimitar arena. Warriors and Frees gather and stay INSIDE THE ARENA. Slaves gather OUTSIDE.

Slaves are given a head start to run and hide ANYWHERE ON SCIMITAR OR SCIMITAR PLAINS.   Warriors and other Frees capture, bind as many slaves (male/female) as possible, returning their caps to the starting point SCIMITAR ARENA  where their caps are recorded.  

Slaves then are freed to run back to the combat area.  Warriors and Frees also return to the combat area for their next capture.  The one with the most caps wins bragging rights, unless the captives raise the stakes (be sure to see below!!).

Sounds easy so far, but wait....

What if the one you're after is being chased by another? Then beat the other Warrior, bash him, Mad Max him and get to the slave first. When you reach the arena, the captive is yours, free and clear.  And if you can cap that other Warrior.. hehe.. you can bring him in and add him to your capture count!!


2-4 PM     Tabor East

  • Tournament                                        

Tabor Tournament Rules - Sword Fighting


  1. No blades drawn outside the arena
  2. Blades set on Melee
  3. 40% maximum damage
  4. No fists or duel wielding
  5. Best of 5 bouts wins
  6. No blade throwing
  7. No Shields
  8. No Jumping
  9. Dodging is allowed
  10. "Double Bubble" = Tie
  11. Be in "Arena Mode"

Tabor Tournament Rules - Slaves


  1. No blades drawn outside arena
  2.  Blades set on melee
  3. 40% damage
  4. No fists/dual wielding
  5. Best of five bouts, on count of three.
  6. No throwing of blades.
  7. No shields
  8. No jumping
  9. Running/dodging is allowed
  10. Be in arena mode
  11. Double bubble = tie


4 PM onwards     Tabor

  • Closing Ceremony & Party 
  • Announcement of all winners 


ALL DAY EVENTS

Harvest carnival - Tabor
Art Competition Exhibition - Three Winds
Yard Sale - Tabor East
Open Taverns - Throughout the cluster
Bathing - Scimitar Baths

Saturday 16 October 2010

Words, Words, Words

Words in SL and Gor can be strange.  Language is most often written rather than spoken, especially when role playing, and people often tend to forget what they are reading on screen is actually meant to be taken as speech. Then again there are plenty of people who know your name without ever being told it ("it says it above your head...") or who can read your thoughts when you emote them.



The way some words are handled annoys me greatly...such as Master and master.  Yes you can read the difference but can you hear it when you speak?  I very much doubt it since it is the same exact word except for the capitalisation...and I am definitely not the sort of person who says "Tal, master with a capital m".  Most of the time it goes by unnoticed when you miss the capitalisation, other times you find you are addressing an arsehole...with a capital a.

Ash Horchester: "Tal, master"
Master Arsehole: "Address me as Master"
Ash Horchester: "Erm...I did Master..."
Master Arsehole: "No you called me master instead of Master"
Ash Horchester does not HEAR a difference in the words but smiles at the arsehole in front of him; "Sorry Master, I do apologise for my error".
Ash Horchester would also like to point out that his use of the word 'arsehole' was not in thought not in speech so please do not react to it, you complete and utter fuckwit (also not direct speech).
Master Arsehole becomes apoplectic and gets Muted.



A word is sometimes used to describe male slaves within the gay Gorean environment I role play in..."boi".  This is not a word from the works of John Norman but is a slang term used (mostly) within the LGBT and BDSM communities.  Obviously when "spoken" it is impossible to distinguish 'boi' and 'boy', but it does annoy me when it is written in a scroll or such.  In the lesbian community, boi refers to a boyish lesbian.  In the gay community, boi is a young gay man.  In the BDSM community, boi is a term used for someone who is a usually passive/submissive.  It can be hard to see how the word relates to some of the role players in SL Gor.  The male slaves are generally not lesbians (well...), some of the slaves can be 100 years old and still be slaves so are not young and not all of the slaves are submissive in the furs; there are plenty of Free Men who can easily answer to 'Master' in public and 'my bitch' in private!  At least we can be thankful that it is never used in capital letters as BOI...as that would be an abbreviation for the Bank Of Ireland...

Sunday 10 October 2010

A Word in Your Ear...

I am a roleplayer.  My chosen environment is Gor.  I am a kajirus, that is a male slave.  The plural of the word is kajiri, but so many times you see kajirus used for plural, presumably because it ends in 's'.  The singular version used is kajiru...

I realise not everyone is familiar with the rules of Latin nominative adjective morphology, but you would think they might do a little research in to what they are roleplaying given the wealth of background material.  I would not expect everyone to read each and every one of the Gor novels, but it is nice if you can cover the basics.