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Ask Teal – Dubious advice to Goreans
Saturday, February 1st, 2014
Picture: Warehouse and bank of the House of Yuroki Company, Tancred’s Landing, by night
By Teal Razor, slave of Captain Siri Emerald Jr, Port Olni Warrior
DEAR TEAL:
I am a female slave whose Master has just informed her that he is leaving on an extended trip. He did not mention taking me with. It appears that he will be gone from the middle of Se’Var to the beginning of En’Var. To be sure, I will miss him and ache for him every day that he is gone. I am new to this Master. He has not a free companion or children. I seem to be “it” for him. I feel concerned that he is going alone and hurt that I am not being taken with him. What should I do while he is away?
DEAR SEEMINGLY FORGOTTON:
I feel for your plight. That is a long time to be Masterless. Well, let’s think of a few ways you can fill in the ahns while alone.
Look around your Master’s abode. Hopefully you have access to merchants in the marketplace who extend credit to your Master. If you see an item that needs to be in place so that your Master can have an easier life, for instance a new jar of oil for the bathtub, a new cloak for him, a set of larl furs for the bedroom, silk pillows, new drinking vessels, then buy it. Shop with an eye toward beauty, functionality, and above all quality. You get the point. Start within the physical four walls and work inward.
The next spotlight should be cast upon your wardrobe. Are your silk’s skimpy enough? Is there enough see-through material in their making to cause a grown gorean man to cry? Are your anklet’s and bracelet’s as clean and polished as they can be? How is your hair? Maybe a trip to your favorite bathhouse and a consult with one of the ladies who serve in these miracles of ablutionary pleasure, will be time well spent. See if you need a cut or shaping. Take a look at your Master’s weapons that he has left behind. Put them all in a cart and haul them to the metal worker’s stall in the marketplace in your city. Tell him to hone them all to razor sharpness. If he does not understand that phrase, tell him you want them all to be able to cut a throat easily.
Now we have covered the realities of your coming abandonment and what you can do to make yourself useful. You could turn inward and examine your compliance with your slave paces. Start saying them fluidly and like you mean it, every third ahn of the day. Then go out and practice those paces on the free people in the commons area. Serve like your life depended on being pleasing. Sign up to help anyone who is asking for committee workers. Make yourself useful!
From the NEW VOICE OF GOR v.3 Issue 143
Deady Sun of the Tahari Desert
Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
The House of Yuroki caravan arrived at the Kavar Oasis of Sand sleen, a member of the true Southern Trade Alliance (STA).
New Headquarters of the HoY Companies
Thursday, August 15th, 2013
The yellow caste of Tancred’s Landing built a new warehouse for the House of Yuroki companies (HoY).
Trading with Precious Gems
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
New HoY Bank in Tharna
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
NEW HOUSE OF YUROKI BANK IN THARNA OPENED
by Wendie (Lemon)
It was a bright clear day when a crowd assembled in the market square of Tharna.
The noise of the crowd showed its eager anticipation for the momentous occasion. It was not everyday their beloved Tatrix was to address their citizens.
A lone man ascended the steps to address the crowd.
“I am Rarius Yuroki, the owner of the HoY Company. The House of Yuroki Bank is a privately owned company. It employs its own bankers, merchants and guards, all of the highest quality. The House of Yuroki Bank has branches in Tarnwald, Tharna, Landa and in Saleria. More branches are under construction. I am very happy that the Tatrix of Tharna allowed us to open a bank here… and lady Vicky, my banker in Tharna, is very happy and thankful too.”
The banker then descends the steps and bows to the Tatrix and escorts her to the head of the steps tom address her people. This was the speech of the Tatrix:
“Greetings citizens of Tharna, visitors and diplomats of sovereign cities, and federations. We welcome you to the glorious city of silver, Tharna.”
The Tatrix then waits for the applause to die down.
“What brings us all together is living history. Events of the past have consequences, and today we celebrate these consequences, and enjoy the fruits of our labors, without judgment or blame on actions taken in the past. Rather acknowledging them, and their results to our lives.
Yet, before I speak of the future, let me speak of the past.
I’m sure most of us know that during the, what we in Tharna speak of as, Silver Mask era, the production of precious metals in Tharna, gold and copper, but mainly silver, reached untold capacities.
This production of precious metals in Tharna, the majority precious metals producer of our world, created in most all of Gor, vitality in trade and commerce unknown in all our history. Those were times where most all of us prospered.
Yet, the Silver Mask era closed in a revolt that shut down all the mines in Tharna. Many remained closed, often collapsed and filled with water. Death traps to any who entered them.
With Tharna mining at a standstill, not only Tharna’s and the Vosk/Olni region’s economy shuddered to an almost standstill, the effect was felt even in the remotest parts of our planet. Our economies, once at the peak of vibrancy, fell into a great depression within just a mere turning of the Central Fire.
The war we call the Silver War broke out. [Enacted on SL-Gor in 2008] Yet this war, and the peace treaty after it, did nothing to solve the problem of Tharna returning to being once again the majority producer of precious metals on Gor.
It took events within Tharna, and another revolt, to catalyze real change in Tharna, that set my predecessor back on the Golden Throne of Tharna, and promoted the production of precious metals, so needed in our economies.
It is therefore, that I proudly stand before you today, and declare that while we in Tharna have not reached the capacities in precious metal mining of the Silver Mask era, and may never wish to do so, we are producing far more than enough precious metals for the economies of our Gorean cities, and even stock-piling reserves, for events where they may be needed.
Thus we come to this event. In the treaty after the Silver War, Tharna was to become a neutral city-state, a city of sanctuary. A city, where even merchants of warring parties could meet freely under the laws of Tharna, and merchant law. An enlightened city, following the principles of the Sardar Fairs.
Therefore, we celebrate and welcome the House of Yuroki’s Bank to Tharna. Yet another part to Tharna’s willingness to comply with the Treaty of the Silver War, and become that enlightened city of Sanctuary to all of Gor.
May peace be with you, and all of yours.”
Great applause and chearing was heard throughout the crowd.
Rarius Yuroki thanks the Tatrix for her words. He then decends the steps throws one of the chests at the bottom of the stairs to reveal a bag of coins: “citizens of Tharna all of you will recieve a similar chest as a gift from the Tatrix and my bank.”
HoY Ship PHAEDRA arriving at Port Genesia
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
The HoY Company trading in Port Kalana
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
The HoY Companies trading in Jort’s Ferry
Friday, January 25th, 2013
The new House of Yuroki Bank Building in Port of Victoria
Monday, January 21st, 2013
House of Yuroki Bank Coin Exhibition
Friday, January 18th, 2013