The Voice of Gor

(Pictures from the roleplay plot “Voyage of Aquisition Nr.25 – Abduction from CUBA”, Oasis of Lame Kaiila, Screenshots: Ganima. More to follow.)

Teletus: The largest of the central “exchange islands,” governed not by civil authorities but rather according to merchant law. A free port allied to no city or Ubarate.

A slave curiously observes the Kaiila in the stable of the Oasis of Lame Kailla.

Tales of valor and duty!

A warlike city, famed for its flocks of wild tarns, lying about 700 pasangs North of Ar, towards the Sardar.

The mountain stronghold can only be reached by tarnback. It has no agriculture, and each year, legions of tarnsmen emerge from the Voltai falling on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they need and burning the rest in order that a long retaliatory winter campaign can not be launched against them. Because of the protection provided by the rocky crags and high mountains, there has never been a serious threat to Treve’s Home Stone.

Treve is a city rich in plunder, as lofty, inaccessible, and impregnable as a tarn’s nest. It is known as the “Tarn of the Voltai” and is an arrogant, never conquered citadel. A stronghold of men whose way of life is banditry, whose women live on the spoils of a hundred cities. Chief among its defenses are the vast legions of tarnsmen, riding the wild tarns found in this land. The wild tarns of Treve are larger and much stronger than tarns bred in captivity, and are widely regarded as the best fighting tarns on Gor.

There are two main sources of revenue for Treve: training wild war tarns and the mercenary use of Treve’s vast forces to neighboring cities. For this reason, the city government continues to be ruled by an Ubar, as a state of war exists almost continuously. The neighboring cities pay vast sums of gold tarn disks to buy protection, but in reality, they pay to keep Treve from attacking them. Treve does not attack three cities because of their defenses…these cities being Ar, Ko-ro-ba, and Thentis.

The tarn flocks of Treve, and the skill of its Tarnsmen, are known as the best on Gor, comparable perhaps only to those of Thentis. It is on tarnback that the men of Treve plunder Cities and make away with the gold and the goods their lofty lifestyle requires, as well as the women of ennemies, brought back to Treve, hooded and bound across saddles, soon to meet the kiss of the iron.

First impressions from Imperial Ar IV.

(Psychee writes: “led by the same team as Imperial Ar III and Imperial Ar I (including Dyce Boucher and Syndel Daviau”).

The people of the Oasis of Klima were starving and desperately needed food! In the exchange point of Klima, a parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) had infested almost all food and made it inedible.

The last caravan only made it as far as the ruins of the Oasis of Mandara. There, a violent sandstorm caught them by surprise. The caravan leaders tried to bring the food into the labyrinth, but the men disappeared, presumably perishing in the quicksand.

The Southern Trade Alliance and Oasis of Lame Kaiila equipped an expedition as quickly as possible. They set off a few days ago….

As every desert dweller knows, east of the Oasis of Lame Kaiila begins a dangerous area with plenty of quicksand, in which one sometimes has to wade up to one’s knees for hours. Only a few caravan leaders know the uncertain paths.

After a strenuous march in the blazing sun, almost always moving in single file, the ruins of the Oasis of Mandara finally came into view. There’s a little water there, but little protection from the sandstorms. As expected, some of the surviving Kaiila were recaptured.

Afterward, most members of the expedition climbed into the two known entrances to the ancient labyrinth to search for the food crates. Others remained on the surface with the Kaiila. The area as a whole is very unsafe, and even Kurii had been seen there.

Remains of the lost caravan were soon discovered. They even found an open crate of dried fish and several barrels of Ka-la-na.

After the entire labrintt had been thoroughly searched, the crates were loaded and they marched on to the Exchange Point of Klima, which was completely deserted and empty.

As the guards of the dunes and a few others know, the path behind the Exchange Point climbs steeply, through high dune ridges, to a plateau. The Oasis of Klima itself lies in a wide valley, which is not so easy to find, because one has to descend into the salt mines.

The entrance to the salt mines is extremely difficult to find and is also blocked by a heavy gate to protect the interior from the constant sandstorms.

After all members of the caravan had arrived safely in the salt mines and no one had been injured by the salt sharks (in some places you have to wade through relatively deep water), you could finally march to the exit of the mines and to the Oasis of Klima itself.

One can imagine how happy the inhabitants of the oasis were when the rescuers unloaded and stacked numerous crates of all kinds of food in the well-known tavern T’zshal’s Inn!

A slave auction in the Oasis of Lame Kaiila.

Memorial event [on earth] for Doc Grun, former Pasha of the Oasis of Nine Wells.

[14:58] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): I don’t know if it has already been said: I already knew Doc Grun as the Pasha of the Oasis of Nine Wells on Gor. I could always rely on him, even when Landa was at war with the 19 Cities. He was one of the co-founders of the Southern Trade Alliance (STA), along with Angel, the Pasha of Sand Sleen, who is also here today. A loyal ally, even in times of crisis, is worth more than a wife, just saying.
[14:59] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): After he had to close his sim, he came to Landa, where I was the administrator, and asked for Asyl, which of course I agreed to.
[14:59] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): And after many years, a year ago to be exact, I offered him the opportunity to return to Gor and seek his virtual home in the Oasis of Lame Kaiila, and he accepted. But it was unfortunately too late, the disease had already progressed too far.
[15:00] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): He was a stubborn person, in that we were very similar, maybe that’s why we got along well
[15:01] Brit Weymann (brittanybreanna): smiles
[15:01] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): I will miss him as a friend! I don’t know what else to say, I’m sad…

Isle of Nara and the Shogun 高橋 Shinji Takahashi (1shinji).