my-second-life

Quiet weekend

2012-01-31T08:00:00.000Z

Not much to tell about the last days due to RL-work. The few hours I was inworld I was busy sorting inventory (again). It's messing up soooooo fast! *sigh*

So, here's just some pics from the Tabor OOC dance on sunday, where we almost always are:

I got a new outfit from HUNG - a shop with really hot stuff! Just after the dance I realized, that the jockstrap was transparent and you could see everything through it. Oh well.. who cares?
My slaves wearing the T-backs from Jomo. *purrrrrs* Another nice shop with hot stuff. They attached invisible prims with OpenCollar-scripts to it, so I could leash them there with ropes. *purrrrs more*

I more and more like the OpenCollar and wonder, why I ever spent money on all the tokon-stuff from xCite!, which is always slow, if it works at all, and really highly scripted. Well, I still love my xCite!-stuff, of course, and tokon isn't too bad (in privacy, low lag regions), but there are so many nice collars and good other stuff from OpenCollar for free... Love it!

Trading

2012-01-27T12:32:00.000Z

Here's just a little RP from last night. It's nothing special, definitely not perfect (like "hours", "minutes" would be "ahn", "ehn". There's no "aii" in the meaning of "yes" in the books. etc.), it was a bit chaotic too with three different things going on, people crashing and lagging (that's why I left in the OOC notes), but still it's an example, what the NLS is meant for: As an expedient and extension to RP, not it's substitute. And how trades could be - instead of just tp, exchange, leave or (worse) gathering it all yourself.

I was standing with River at the docks, stock-taking of the marketstalls, when a kind of pedalboat arrived....

[14:28] Jimmy Bloch: "We are shafe, shishtersh!", he shouts as he jumps on the firm land
[14:28] Jimmy Bloch: "And I shink I been here before!"
[14:28] Susanna Bloch has entered chat range.
[14:28] Cessillia Bloch has entered chat range.
[14:29] River: "Greetings, Master"
[14:29] Jimmy Bloch approaches the two men and recognizes them "Tal, Shir! Greetingsh, boy! Oh, I knowsh you!"
[14:29] River: "Greetings, Mistress, how might I help you?"
[14:29] Susanna Bloch: "I shink I will shusht shit shere."
[14:30] River: "Can I bring you anything, Mistress?"
[14:30] Susanna Bloch: "Not yet, boy."
[14:31] Franziskus Ninetails raises his eyebrows as he sees the strange vessel arriving at the shores, two of the people looking familiar "Tal!", he answers the greeting. He looks from the people to the 'boat', then back "That's an... intersting vessel to ride the ocean you got there!"
[14:31] River: "Can I get you anything, Master? Mistress?", River asks.
[14:32] Susanna Bloch sits at the low table feeling a bit queasy from the boat ride
[14:32] Jimmy Bloch beams proudly "Shank you! I hash builded it!", then his face gets serious again. "Our ship - she Impresh - shinked. But we could shave ourshelvesh and our goodhs from she wavesh!"
[14:33] Cessillia Bloch asks cautiously "Do you hash any.... " her eyes linger of the freeman for a moment "larma shoosh?", she asks the boy, nudging her brother forward to introduce her to the handsome gentleman
[14:33] River: "shat... that was very lucky, Master"
[14:33] Jimmy Bloch looks at the man closely, then at the slave, then around, then back to the man "I shink I hash been here before. Shish ish Tabor, ishn't it"
[14:34] Franziskus Ninetails frowns as he hears, that the mighty Impress sunk - if he understood the accent right. "I'm sorry to hear that! But lucky that you are safe now!"
[14:34] River: "It is Tabor Tropics, Master"
[14:35] Franziskus Ninetails nods in agreement to his slave "Aye, this is Tabor Tropics. I seen you before, I think...."
[14:35] Gorka has entered chat range.
[14:35] Jimmy Bloch nods: "Aye.. me ish Shimmy, sheshe are my shishtersh - Sheshie and Shushie!"
[14:36] Gorka: "Tal all"
[14:36] Franziskus Ninetails smiles "Ah, well met.. again then, Shimmy, Sheshie and Shushie!", then smiles as another man jumps from the ferry "Tal, Gorka, if I remember it right?"
[14:36] Susanna Bloch looks at the handsome man by the bar and unconsiously straightens her skirts
[14:36] Gorka: "yes"
[14:37] River: "Greetings, Master", River says greeting the master that arrives
[14:37] Gorka: "Any merchant here?"
[14:37] Jimmy Bloch shakes his head and speaks very slowly "No! Ish Shi-mmy, She-shi and Shu-shi!", then looks at the arrived man "Tal, Shir!"
[14:37] Susanna Bloch looks up at the half dressed man and gulps at his manly body
[14:38] Franziskus Ninetails looks a bit confused and then remembers and beams "Ah! Right! Forgive me! Jimmy, Cessy and Susie, right?", then turns to Gorka "Aye, I am here. What do you need, Sir?"
[14:38] Cessillia Bloch smile at both of the gentlemen, her hand moving to her hair gently pushing it up, then straightening her dress frowning at the salt marks from their journey, before blushing demurely at the gentlemen
[14:42] Gorka: "I'm Gorka, farmer in Northen Tabor"
[14:38] Gorka has left chat range.
[14:38] Cessillia Bloch smile at both of the gentlemen, her hand moving to her hair gently pushing it up, then straightening her dress frowning at the salt marks from their journey, before blushing demurely at the gentlemen
[14:43] River: "Might I help you, Master?"
[14:43] River looks at the giant of a man that is standing before him
[14:44] Gorka: ((sorry my RP is small, my english is no very good))
[14:44] Jimmy Bloch smiles at the stranger and introduces himself again "Well met, Gorka. Me ish Shimmy of she clan of Bloch. Sheshe are my shishtersh - Sheshy and Shushy"
[14:44] Gorka: "very good"
[14:44] Gorka: "Greetings, Lady"
[14:44] Jimmy Bloch: ((Oh, then you might have problems understanding our "accent"? But if you have to clear something here, we can wait))
[14:45] Gorka: ((ok thanks you))
[14:45] Gorka: "Nice clothes, lady"
[14:45] Franziskus Ninetails smiles at Gorka and points to a barrel next to him "Have a seat, Gorka! What do you need?"
[14:45] River: "Mistress, would you like to sit?"
[14:46] River: "I shall bring you your juice"
[14:46] Franziskus Ninetails then snips his fingers to his slave "Maybe the shipwreckers are hungry, my lil sunshine. And bring a rence-beer for Gorka!"
[14:47] Gorka: "I find a merchant to sell my products"
[14:47] Jimmy Bloch licks his lips then asks his sisters "Are you ash hungry ash me, shishtersh?"
[14:47] Cessillia Bloch looks at the low seats, then the barrels, then the low seats again, and cautiously sits, trying to gather her skirt around her to try to prevent diplaying her ankles
[14:47] Franziskus Ninetails: "What are you selling, Gorka?"
[14:48] Gorka: "Meat, milk, ramberry, tospit"
[14:48] Gorka: "Are you a warrior, Jimmy?"
[14:50] Jimmy Bloch shakes his head "No, I'm shusht a shepherd, Shir", then he whispers with his sisters, while the merchant neogitates with the other man

[14:49] Cessillia Bloch thinks for a moment "Shome shoup woulds'sh be good, and wouldsh help shettle your shtumok my shishter"
[14:49] Franziskus Ninetails smiles "So, I'm a simple merchant out here in the tropics, Gorka"
[14:50] River: "Yes, Mistress"
[14:50] River: "We have sul or carrot mistress?"
[14:50] Gorka: "A merchant?"
[14:51] Franziskus Ninetails nods "Aye, these are our marketstalls"
[14:51] Gorka: "Really nice!"
[14:51] Gorka: "I hope we can have business"
[14:51] Franziskus Ninetails: "Why don't you sit over here and have a rence-beer? The first one is on me!"
[14:51] Susanna Bloch: "I would like shul pleashe, shlave."
[14:52] Gorka: "thanks, man!"
[14:52] Gorka: "Later I invite"
[14:52] Cessillia Bloch scratches her chin, then blushes as she realises it is the time of the week she needs to shave "Shul alsho pleashe"
[14:52] Franziskus Ninetails: "So, meat, milk, ramberries and tospit, you said?"
[14:52] Gorka: "yes"
[14:52] River: "yes, Mistress"
[14:53] Gorka: "Boy, have paga?"
[14:53] Franziskus Ninetails scratches his chin "Hmmmm... what kind of meat? We always need some for our beasts here"
[14:53] Gorka: "Meat of bosk"
[14:54] Franziskus Ninetails: "Milk we have our own bosk-cows, but ramberries and tospit.. hmmm.. we could have some, if the price is right"
[14:54] Franziskus Ninetails: "How many do you have to offer?"
[14:54] Franziskus Ninetails nods to his slave to offer paga instead of rence-beer
[14:54] Gorka: ((lol im new and really i dont know how much))
[14:56] Jimmy Bloch counts his coins then asks the slaves in a whisper "How mush ish shome shoup and shuishe and a piesh of bread?"
[14:56] River: "That is one silver and 65 TS please, Mistress"
[14:57] Gorka: ((i hope any can help me with prices))
[[all crashed at that moment]]
[15:02] Susanna Bloch: "Did my brosher tell you what we wanted to trade, Shir?"
[15:03] Cessillia Bloch: ((brb whilst we wait for Jimmy to reconnect too, I will call him if he is not back in a minute))
[15:03] River: ((maybe he is stuck))
[15:04] Cessillia Bloch: ((nods, I'll give him a minute then call him, he might be having to reboot the computer))
[15:05] Franziskus Ninetails shakes his head, a bit worried as Gorka ran so fast to the bushes, maybe not good in handling the strong paga. "No, I thought you wanted to eat and drink first"
[15:09] Jimmy Bloch almost faints as the slave charges a silver tarsk for the soup "What?! I didn't want to buy she whole shul-fieldsh!"
[15:11] Cessillia Bloch nods and looks longingly at the soup "Ish shorry, we cantsh afford to pay shat"
[15:11] River:"I miscounted"
[15:10] River: "It's 1 copper and 65"
[15:10] River hangs his head shamefully
[15:11] River: "Forgive me, Mistress."
[15:11] River looks over his shoulder at his master and bites his lip
[15:12] Cessillia Bloch pats her heart softly checking that it is still working "Oh, shat'sh fine, Ish heard she greensh shay a good shock occashionally ish good for the heart"
[15:13] Susanna Bloch: "Ish alright boy, mishtakesh happen."
[15:15] Cessillia Bloch fumbles around in her back, and finally locating her purse counts out 2 copper coins hoping that is correct, and being ignorant of the correct treatment of slaves holds them out in the palm of her hand for the boy to take from her
[15:16] River: "I will bring your change mistress," river says, still ashamed of his mistake
[15:18] River puts the coins in a small box behind his counter
[15:18] River: "your change, Mistress"
[15:18] Jimmy Bloch: "You hash enough coinsh, shishtersh? I hash coinsh too"
[15:19] Cessillia Bloch: "Shank you, little one"
[15:19] Jimmy Bloch looks at the table - empty before him "I don't get shul-shoup? and bread? and shooshe? How mush ish shat?"
[15:20] Susanna Bloch sips at her soup, enjoying the delicate flavour.
[15:20] Cessillia Bloch smiles at her brother "I'sh sold a few piesh brosher, sho many lashy Mistreshesh on she ship who did not know how to cook"
[15:21] Lady Nahan has entered chat range.
[15:21] The slave-girl 'beast' has entered chat range.
[15:21] Franziskus Ninetails looks up at another ferry arrives and mumbles "Oh, a busy day today!"
[15:22] Cessillia Bloch rumbles around in her bag a bit more, then locating one, holds up a candy heart, flicking of the dust from the bag, and the salt from the traveling and passes it to the boy "here, you may ash well hash shish, I neesh to cook some more"
[15:22] Jimmy Bloch: ((I think I'm losing my connection...))
[15:22] Susanna Bloch: ((ohh dear))
[15:23] Jimmy Bloch has left chat range.
[15:23] Gorka has entered chat range.
[15:23] River stands up. "Can I bring you anything else, Mistresses?"
[15:24] Franziskus Ninetails jumps up from the barrels to welcome the other guests
[15:24] Gorka: "Tal, again"
[15:24] Gorka: "Any can serve paga for all?"
[15:24] River: "Forgive me, Master, I did not see you sitting there"
[15:24] Gorka: "Franz!"
[15:25] Lady Nahan "Come girl .. lets alight .. and see who is about"
[15:25] River: "How might I serve you?"
[15:25] Gorka: "No problem, boy"
[15:25] Franziskus Ninetails approaches the next visitors "Tal and welcome to Tabor Tropics"
[15:25] Susanna Bloch: ((sighs phone call))
[15:25] Gorka: "I want paga!"
[15:25] Lady Nahan "Greetings Sir "
[15:25] River: "Yes, Master"
[15:26] River: "It is 70 TS. Master"
[15:26] Gorka: "good boy"
[15:26] Franziskus Ninetails raises his hand and gives them a smile "I'm Franziskus of Tidra, merchant to Tabor here"
[15:26] The slave-girl 'beast' kneels at mistress feet in a graceful tower "greetings, Master"
[15:26] Lady Nahan "I am Nahan, Healer for the Kataii Tribe "
[15:26] Lady Nahan "Well met, Sir "
[15:26] Franziskus Ninetails nods with a warm smile "Well met, Nahan"
[15:27] Franziskus Ninetails turns his head to the kneeling slave-girl "And this wild beauty here... ?"
[15:28] Lady Nahan "I came along this morning .. to trade some Ka-la-na grapes... but had to leave.. oh she is just a Beast .. one of the slaves from our camp!"
[15:28] The slave-girl 'beast' bends forward touching her head to the mans boot in a half karta "Thank you, Master", she wispers sensually before sitting erect again
[15:29] River pours a goblet of paga for the master and passes it to him
[15:29] Lady Nahan "Introduce yourself, girl"
[15:29] Gorka: "thanks, boy"
[15:29] River: "Greetings again, Mistress"
[15:29] Gorka: "You serve very good"
[15:30] Lady Nahan "Greetings again, boy"
[15:30] The slave-girl 'beast': "yes mistress, this one is called beast for now as this one has been given no name", she blushes ashamed" this one is simply beast of Kataii"
[15:30] Franziskus Ninetails smiles as the slave touches his boot with her head. "... and a well educated one too, as I see" His face brightens as he hears 'grapes'. "Ohhhh, grapes! Those are very welcome!", then makes an inviting gesture to the sit-group "But please, sit down, lady Nahan. You must be exhausted after the long travel"
[15:31] Franziskus Ninetails smiles once more at the kajira "Well.. 'beast' is not the worst name..."
[15:31] Lady Nahan "Thank you, Sir .. that would be nice .. but i need to stretch my legs after the journey"
[15:31] Franziskus Ninetails raises an eyebrow "Oh, you met my slave already?"
[15:32] Lady Nahan " yes ... he was very attentive to me this morning "
[15:32] The slave-girl 'beast' sits up proudly arching her spine and thrusting out her breast "beast thanks you master" smiles brightly
[15:32] Franziskus Ninetails then brightens, looking down to his slave "Ah, the lady you told me, mine?"
[15:32] River: "Yes, my master"
[15:32] Lady Nahan come along girl
[15:33] River: "Might I get you something, mistress?"
[15:33] Franziskus Ninetails points to the soft pillow "Please, have a seat"
[15:33] Lady Nahan: "A little juice maybe... or a blackwine"
[15:34] River: "I have both, Mistress"
[15:34] The slave-girl 'beast' kneels behind the mistress her tower polite and tight her thighs clamp shut and she settles the mistress skirts carefully
[15:34] Franziskus Ninetails: "Ah, you are lucky! We have the best black wine outside of Thentis. Maybe even better!"
[15:35] Gorka has left chat range.
[15:35] Lady Nahan takes a seat .. looks around .. seeing the others "Greetings Ladies "
[15:35] Lady Nahan "Then black wine it will be.." smiles
[15:35] Franziskus Ninetails introducing the others "These are survivors of the Impress. They just arrived!" ((and one seems on the phone, one crashed))
[15:35] River: "Yes, Mistress"
[15:35] The slave-girl 'beast' wispers "Greetings, Mistresses", her head bows low
[15:36] Franziskus Ninetails nods to his slave "wine.. watered for me, mine"
[15:36] River pauses, "Would Mistress like first or second slave?"
[15:36] River: "Yes, my master"
[15:36] Lady Nahan "Black - no sugar"
[15:36] Cessillia Bloch smiles looking up from sipping her juice "Greetingsh, shorry, I did not shee you shere" ((sorry, was on a call to Jimmy, he has lost his connection, he will come back as soon as he can reconnect))
[15:38] Cessillia Bloch smiles looking at the ladies hair "oh, goodnesh! I like you hair!" she enthuses, then pats her own thoughtfully for a moment "Ish it hardsh to do?"
[15:38] Lady Nahan (( sorry was in arena mode .. after practicing forgot to change it back ))
[15:39] Lady Nahan: "nay Lady .. but does take a long time .. like 7 hours "
[15:39] Franziskus Ninetails as he waits for the watered wine studies his new guest for a moment. "So, you come a long way, it seems" ((no problem. I noticed, but didn't plan to fight with you, so it was fine to me))
[15:40] Lady Nahan "Yes, Sir... we have traveled a long journey... but the sea was calm and the weather good .. so was fine"
[15:40] River pours out a goblet of black wine and places it on a tray with sugars and cream. He then pours a large goblet of wine, topping it with a little water
[15:41] Franziskus Ninetails before the women end in... women's talk quickly draws the attention to the main subjects "... my slave said, you had grapes to offer? That is good as we are running out of them"
[15:41] River places the tray on the table then moves to his master to serve him first as always
[15:41] Lady Nahan "aii that i do... I have around 200 ka-la-na for trade today"
[15:42] Lady Nahan "What would be your best offer?"
[15:43] River holds up the cup of wine, pressing it first to his belly then to his heart, finally he kisses the goblet just below the rim,
[15:43] Franziskus Ninetails's face brightens as he hears the quantity just for the bit of an ihn before he gets his trading face back, no muscle in his face moving
[15:43] River offers it two handedly to his master, whispering "Wine to quench your thirst, my Master"
[15:43] Franziskus Ninetails takes his time and takes the goblet from his slave's hand, thinking
[15:44] Cessillia Bloch nods thinking that would take longer than her twice weekly shave and frowns as the man interrupts a good natter, but then forgives him for being so handsome as she flutters her eyelashes at him "I'm Sheshy by she way, well met" she whispers to the lady before the handsome man interrupts them again
[15:45] River moves to the mistress and pours a large goblet of blackwine. "Forgive this one mistress," he says, "did you say first or second slave?"
[15:45] Susanna Bloch: ((sorry))
[15:45] Lady Nahan "I am Nahan.. Healer to the Kataii. Well met indeed"
[15:45] Susanna Bloch: ((my shishter on the phone, she never shtops talking brb))
[15:45] The slave-girl 'beast' begins to lightly sweat in the tropic climate. so humid compared to the plains. she looks around reminded of her long life as a free woman in the south. the smell of the tropic ignights memories and the banter of the free in trade chase them away.
[15:45] Lady Nahan "Nothing to forgive, boy... you see to your Master first.. thats a good thing "
[15:46] River waits for the lady to let him know if she wants sugars and cream
[15:46] Lady Nahan " I said Black no sugar"
[15:47] Lady Nahan ((dont know what first or second means ))
[15:47] River blushes that he had been distracted, "Forgive me, Mistress,"
[15:47] Franziskus Ninetails takes a small sip from the watered wine, then coughs as he had forgotten to introduce his other guests "Oh, my apologies. This is Cessy and this is Susanna from the Clan of Bloch. The survivors of the sunken Impress. The young lad behind me, taking a nap there in the grass ((crashed one)) is Jimmy"
[15:47] River: (( first is with cream and sugar, second is black ))
[15:47] Lady Nahan: (( thank you ))
[15:48] Lady Nahan "Then it is a second.. I believe, boy "
[15:49] Franziskus Ninetails: ((easy to remember: the first slave brought the sugar and milk; it was put into the bowl. Then the second slave poured the black wine over it. - That way you can remember: Second Slave = black, as the first slave didn't bring sugar & milk. But don't ask, what it is, ONLY with sugar or ONLY milk...))
[15:49] Lady Nahan "Would it be possible for this girl to get something to drink.. don't want her to pass out from lack of water"
[15:49] River holds up the goblet of blackwine. "blackwine, Mistress", he says softly "strong, to tickle your senses", he lowers his head and passes the goblet to the beautiful lady
[15:50] River as soon as he has served the lady, moves back behind his master
[15:51] Franziskus Ninetails nods to his boy to when he's ready with serving the lady "Bring some water for the lady's slave, mine. And with the lady's permission...." - He looks questioning at lady Nahan - "... one of our famous candy canes too, maybe?"
[15:51] Lady Nahan smiles .. as she takes the cup .. smelling the aroma .. sighs a little .. "This smells wonderful "
[15:51] Lady Nahan looks to the girl "aii Sir .. thank you kindly "
[15:51] River: "Yes, my master"
[15:53] Franziskus Ninetails looks to Cessy "You don't like the soup, lady Cessy? It's getting cold..."
[15:53] River gets a plain wooden cup from behind the counter and pours some water, he then takes a candy cane from the pot and brings both back to the girl.
[15:53] Cessillia Bloch picks up her soup bowl, and begins to eat it, trying her best to eat it delicately, and unaware of a long tail of it having spilt down her front "Candy canesh?" she asks intrigued
[15:53] Franziskus Ninetails then smiles to lady Nahan at the praise of the black wine "Thank you, lady Nahan...."
[15:54] Franziskus Ninetails: "We smuggled some plants out of Thentis last year. And fortunatley survived"
[[which by the way is true... Rped that last year with long preparations.. spies etc. - This sidenote just for some evil tongues who say, it wouldn't be "realistic" to have black wine in the tropics!]]
[15:54] The slave-girl 'beast' reaches up taking the items from the boy "Thank you kajirus, she wispers offering the boy a sweet smile"
[15:55] Franziskus Ninetails: "My slaves were very successful in breeding a new strain of the plants and they grow well in this climate"
[15:55] River smiles as he passes over the sweet and water to the girl. "enjoy sister," he says kindly. He gives her a wink then moves back to his master
[15:56] Lady Nahan *smiles * sipping the blackwine .. savoring the taste .. "Well you were right .. this has a wonderful flavour to it"
[15:56] Susanna Bloch looks at her sisters growing cold soup."Ish you not going to eat shat Sheshi," she asks.
[15:56] The slave-girl 'beast' looks to her mistress and wispers "may girl have the candy?" she holds the sweet in her hand it being the first thing other than slave gruel shes had since her caputre and branding
[15:56] Franziskus Ninetails hears lady Cessy and - in a good mood - asks her "Do you want to taste it too, lady? The first one is on me!"
[15:57] Lady Nahan *nods* "aii girl .. make the most of it .. "
[15:58] Susanna Bloch frowns at her brother, who is sleeping in the grass again.
[15:58] The slave-girl 'beast': "oh thank you, Mistress, thank you", she keeps her excited voice low and bends to kiss the hem of the healers skirt". She drinks the water and quietly savors the candy
[15:59] Cessillia Bloch smiles, "yesh, that would be delightful, but only if I can givesh you a heart" she says in what she hopes is an enticing manner
[15:59] Franziskus Ninetails to come back to the trade "Soooo... 200 grapes you said? That would be excellent!"
[15:59] Susanna Bloch: "Did my brosher introdush ush, dear lady?" she asks.
[15:59] Lady Nahan *smiles* " you have not had much in the way of treats since you became a slave girl .. so enjoy"
[16:00] River looks at the girl and feels a little sad for her, his is lucky to have a master that gives him treats all the time.
[16:00] Lady Nahan "Yes, I have 200 ka-la-na grapes..."
[16:01] Franziskus Ninetails thinks "Hmmm.... " and was just about to offer a way too low price as the other woman tells something of 'hearts'... Confused and distracted he truns to Cessilia asking "Hearts?"
[16:02] Lady Nahan looks to the woman .. "is your brother back, Lady"
[16:02] Susanna Bloch eyes widen at the amount of kalana trauben on offer, she tries to count that many on her fingers, then gives up
[16:03] Susanna Bloch: "Shimmy? No, he ish shleeping in she grash poor dear. Do you have a companion, dear lady?", she suddenly asks, seeing an oppotunity to find her brother a mate
[16:03] Lady Nahan looks across to the man.. "So, Sir... what would you offer for the grapes?" knowing that he will start low.
[16:04] Lady Nahan " aii, I do! A very good man"
[16:04] Cessillia Bloch smiles rumaging in her bag, and takes out the last of the hearts she cooked and hands one to the handsome man, and the other to the lady "Ish a good cook", she says proudly puffing out her chest
[16:04] Susanna Bloch shakes her head. "Shat ish too bad. Shimmy could do wish a good lady like you."
[16:06] Franziskus Ninetails shakes his head, as Cessy doesn't answer his question and turns his attention back to the woman that came from so far away "Sooo... hmmmmm.... 200 grapes... " - He rolls his eyes to the sky, starting with half the price he would be willing to pay "I'd offer you 10 KT for all together!", and smiles as if it was the most generous offer in the world
[16:06] Lady Nahan *laughs*... "well, I am not available, only for trading I'm afraid"
[16:08] Franziskus Ninetails looks a bit puzzled as Cessillia puts the pretzel-heart into his hands. He turns it around "Oh! That looks... interesting!", then takes a careful bite, then beams "And it tastes delicious too!"
[16:08] Lady Nahan eyes widen at such a low price offered for the amount stiffles a gasp .. "Nay, Sir, I was thinking more in the line of say 40 KT", know the price she set was high, but maybe he will get to the right price in the end
[16:08] Susanna Bloch moves a little closer to the lady, oblivious of the trade that is going on and interested only in find her brother a mate. "Ish shere any osher women shat might like a strapping young lad ash a mate. He dont look mush but he ish very strong."
[16:09] Franziskus Ninetails: ((wow! A NLS-product? Never heard of this one!?))
[16:10] Cessillia Bloch: ((*grins* yes, it adds NLS health points))
[16:10] Franziskus Ninetails coughs and almost spits the piece of.. pretzel or whatever it is over the table.. As he finally caught breath again and took another sip of his wine "Oh... forgive me! I just understood 40!"
[16:11] Cessillia Bloch: ((nutri points, sorry, wrong game))
[16:11] River stretches his back a little then sits back silently like a good slave should and waits to be commanded again.
[16:12] Lady Nahan stiffles a laugh at the mans reaction to her price "Aye, Sir...", she says with her trader face set, not a smile nor a blink
[16:12] River hides a smile by looking at the ground, having seen this game played many times before
[16:14] Susanna Bloch starts to scratch her arse then stops herself remembering where she is and that she is meant to be a lady.
[16:15] Cessillia Bloch looks with concern and confusion between the two, then nods, knowing her father goes through the same process everytime he sells the wool, though of course he gets confused when the prices go over 15 of anything
[16:15] Franziskus Ninetails just about to take another bite from the heart hestitates in mid-air... his jaw dropped down, giving a bit of silly expression... then shuts his mouth, his teeth clapping loudly together. He takes a deep breath "Oh my, oh my.. lady Nahan... I'm afraid I can't afford such expensive grapes, no matter how good they might be! But I have 12 children to feed... not to mention my wife buying one dress after the other... " - He sighs artificially before he continues....
[16:16] Franziskus Ninetails: "But I know, you came a long way... so... I offer you 12 KT for the 200 grapes... but there won't be any profit for me. It's just for you!", he looks deep into her eyes
[16:17] Susanna Bloch leans across the table to her sister, "Shat is too bad, " she whispers, "He ish already companioned and 12 shilderensh! We should have come here firsht."
[16:18] Cessillia Bloch moans softly in disappointment at the mention of a wife, and kicks the table in disappointment, then looking up and blushing "Shorry, shlipped", she says
[16:18] River covers a laugh with a cough as the mistress discusses his master's virility
[16:19] Cessillia Bloch thinks for a moment, then whispers to her sister "I wondersh how old she sonsh are?"
[16:19] Lady Nahan looks at him and his puppy dog eyes .. does not budge an inch .. shakes her head slowly " hmmm that is a little low .. but im willing to drop my price a little .. say to 35.. its a lot of grapes .. and my family will starve if I sell for anything less"
[16:19] Susanna Bloch: "You should shee a healer for shat cough, boy," Suzy says seriously. "Shitting on a cold floor doesh not help, you know?"
[16:21] Cessillia Bloch nods at her sisters advise "Always shit shomewhere shoft", she agrees
[16:21] River: "I am good, Mistresses, thank you for your concern for this one."
[16:25] Lady Nahan takes the heart and eats it quickly .. she did not think she was so hungry . drinks a little more of the blackwine .. to wash down the heart
[16:26] Susanna Bloch: (( jimmy txt me, his connection has gone completely, he sends his appologies to you all.))
[16:26] The slave-girl 'beast' pulls out a vuloo rooster feather fan and softly fans her mistress from behind cooling her neck and cheeks as she eats and trades.
[16:27] Lady Nahan ((( awww that sucks when that happens... but we all have been there ))
[16:28] Lady Nahan feels the soft breeze from behind .. glances over her shoulder .. *smiles* whispers "thank you, beast"
[16:28] Franziskus Ninetails scratches his chin and considers mumbling "Hmmmmmmmmm...... maybe if I sell two or three of my 7 daughters as slaves... hmmm... and the 8 sons..." - He continues rubbing his jawline and finally nods "... then I could offer you 14 KT and a bag with 12 black wine powders!"
[16:28] Franziskus Ninetails adds to himself "... maybe better sell all 7 of them, keep the sons..."
[16:29] Franziskus Ninetails: ((too bad 'bout Jimmy. Maybe tomorrow then?))
[16:29] Susanna Bloch: (( nods, providing his connection is back by then))
[16:30] River: "My master, forgive me, might I kennel?"
[16:30] The slave-girl 'beast': ((my cable internet provider would be roasting on a pit if they let my connection go out like that for so long))
[16:31] Lady Nahan is interested in his offer .. but tries for the price she really needs .. " hmmm .. well if you sell about 5 of your daughters .. you maybe able to pay say 20 KT and the bag of blackwine powders", sounding heartless but her need is great
[16:31] Franziskus Ninetails smiles as beast pulls out the fan from their luggage and fans fresh air. He turns to his boy "Ah, you should get yours here in future for guests too, my lil sunshine!"
[16:31] River: "I will, my master"
[16:31] Franziskus Ninetails then nods to his slave "Aye, but first ask if anyone needs anything. Then you can go to the kennels, mine!"
[16:32] Cessillia Bloch: ((*nods* if you dont mind then I will settle back on the cushion and 'nap' we will IM you tomorrow to make arrangements - Nahan and beast - delightful to meet you both, hope to do so again))
[16:32] River: "Thank you, my master"
[16:32] Lady Nahan ((nice to meet you too ))
[16:32] The slave-girl 'beast': ((pleased to meet you miss have a good night))
[16:32] River: "Might I fetch you anything, Mistresses?"
[16:33] Franziskus Ninetails: ((okay.. Cessy. Hopefully more luck tomorrow. I'm interested in those hearts!))
[16:33] Susanna Bloch: "Not for me, dear"
[16:33] Lady Nahan "A little water if its cold would be good, boy"
[16:33] River: "Yes, mistress, it is cold."
[16:34] Cessillia Bloch: ((*grins* yes, I will try to have some more for you))
[16:34] Lady Nahan smiles .."wonderful .. feeling a little parched after the heart cookie "
[16:34] Franziskus Ninetails smiles to his slave "There should be some ice left, mine"
[16:34] River hurries behind the counter and pours some water that he keeps for special customers, in the cold box.
[16:35] Cessillia Bloch yawns sleeply and whispers to the boy "mead" as her eyes grow heavy and close ((good night all)
[16:35] Franziskus Ninetails turns to lady Nahan "Fortunately it's winter on the other side of the hills. We have a warm stream from Thassa on this side, providing us with the warm weather. In the summer we have to get ice from the far north!"
[16:36] Franziskus Ninetails: ((night, Cessy. nice to meet you))
[16:36] Lady Nahan nods in understanding ..
[16:36] Cessillia Bloch has left chat range.
[16:37] River holds the cup up for the mistress to accept
[16:37] The slave-girl 'beast' remembers the giant ice bearin ships sailing up the vosk river and the rough manners of the north jarls. sighing happily it wasnt one of them to make her slave
[16:37] River: "If I might, my master, I will nap in the office"
[16:38] Lady Nahan takes the cup from the boy.. "thank you, boy". She looks to the man "He is such a good boy this one, Sir"
[16:38] River smiles brightly
[16:38] Susanna Bloch: "He ish a pretty one for shure."
[16:39] Franziskus Ninetails rubs his nose and mumbles "Hmmmmm... 20 KT and a bag of black wine... worth at least 6 KT... hmmmm... Wouldn't there anything else you'd need? I thought my boy mentioned you were looking for other goods too?"
[16:40] Franziskus Ninetails nods to his slave but commands him closer to kiss his feet before he goes to kennel
[16:41] River kneels and reverently kisses Franziskus's foot.
[16:41] River moves to his master's feet and bends his head, kissing them lovingly
[16:41] Rivers new golden hair xcite: Franziskus Ninetails reaches a hand out and ruffles his hair.
[16:41] River: "I love you, my master"
[16:41] Susanna Bloch: "Shleep well, boy"
[16:41] River: "ty, mistress"
[16:41] Franziskus Ninetails smiles and ruffles his slave's hair "Good night, my lil sunshine"
[16:41] River: "good night, my master"
[16:42] Franziskus Ninetails: ((and no abreviations....))
[16:42] River: "Good night, mistresses"
[16:42] River: "Good night, girl"
[16:42] The slave-girl 'beast': "Good night, brother, I'll never forget the candy. Safe paths and may your slave fire burn ever bright", she wispers
[16:43] Lady Nahan "Good night, boy.. sleep well"
[16:43] River: "Yours too, sister"
[16:43] River smiles to his master once more then hurrys into the office , to finish some papers then to nap a little
[16:44] The slave-girl 'beast' folds the fan seeing her mistess is cool from the air and water. She slips it back upon the hook on her belt.
[16:44] Susanna Bloch: "Shush a nishe boy. Would you conshider to shell him?"
[16:45] Franziskus Ninetails laughs shortly "For no fortune in whole Gor"
[16:45] Lady Nahan "He would bring a great price indeed"
[16:46] The slave-girl 'beast' grins hearing him speak and begins to daydream one day a she would be so valuable
[16:46] Susanna Bloch: "Shame, we could do wish a boy to pull our cart"
[16:47] Franziskus Ninetails tilts his head and smiles apologizing to Susanna "It took me too long to teach him our language and to read and write... I never will sell him"
[16:47] Franziskus Ninetails: "So, Lady Nahan... is it true, that you are searching for other goods too?"
[16:48] Susanna Bloch: "I quite undershtand, shir" She smiles behind her veil.
[16:48] Lady Nahan "aii Sir "
[16:48] Franziskus Ninetails: "What are you looking for then, lady Nahan?"
[16:50] Lady Nahan "But it's getting late... and we need to get back before it get's too dark... maybe I could continue the trade in the morning, Sir, when I have more time... "
[16:51] Franziskus Ninetails looks a bit disappointed ((I was just about to get you a final deal with horn, wool and leather, as you were looking for that too, if I remember it right))
[16:52] Lady Nahan ((yes... thats right.. but getting really tired, sorry))
[16:52] Franziskus Ninetails: "Hmmm, I was about to offer you some tabuk horn... You did such a long travel... I don't want you to return with empty hands. But I understand, that you are tired after such a long travel. I can offer you a place at our fireplace for the night, if you wish!
[16:52] Franziskus Ninetails: ((oh.. then you need to sleep of course!))
[16:53] Franziskus Ninetails points over the river "My house is just over there!"
[16:53] Lady Nahan smiles politely... "nay, Sir, we shall travel back... my Mate likes to know that I am home "
[16:54] Franziskus Ninetails frowns as he just realizes, if the woman would accept his offer, she would notice, that he neither has a wife, not any daughters, and only one son
[16:55] Lady Nahan "And I have no wish for his anger to be focus on your village for me staying away for the night"
[16:55] Franziskus Ninetails nods "Of course! I understand that. So, I hope we will meet soon again to continue"
[16:55] Franziskus Ninetails nods again "That's understandable."
[16:55] Lady Nahan "aii, Sir... I shall contact you... as soon as I wake... thank you for your hospitallity"
[16:56] Lady Nahan "Come, beast! We go home now"
[16:56] Susanna Bloch: "It wash nishe to meet you, dear lady. Maybe my family can trade wish you shome time"
[16:56] Franziskus Ninetails takes one of the candy bags from the counter and reaches it to the lady "Take this as a treat for your girl and as a sign of my good will"
[16:57] The slave-girl 'beast': "Safe paths, Master, and beast deeply thanks you", she bows her head low
[16:57] Lady Nahan drinks the last of her water... places the goblet down on the table. "Very nice to meet you too, Lady. Thank you, Sir"
[16:58] Lady Nahan walks quickly to the boat.. turns "I will be in contact when i wake"
[16:58] Lady Nahan: "Come, girl!"
[16:58] Franziskus Ninetails: "Safe paths and may Thassa be kind to you and take you home on her back as quick as possible"
[16:59] Susanna Bloch: "Safe paths, dear lady"
[16:59] Lady Nahan "May the sky be always blue and that storms pass by quickly"
[16:59] Susanna Bloch wonders what was in the soup as she slurs her words suddenly.
[16:59] Lady Nahan "Be well, Sir... Be well, lady"
[17:00] Lady Nahan has left chat range.
[17:00] Franziskus Ninetails waves as they jump in the ship "Be well and safe paths"
[17:00] The slave-girl 'beast' has left chat range.
[17:01] Susanna Bloch: "I shink I will retire, Shir, and leave you to the loving handsh of your shlaveboy"
[17:02] Susanna Bloch: "I will shleep on your shoft cushionsh, if I may"
[17:03] Franziskus Ninetails: "Of course, lady Susanna... I am sure you need a rest after all what you been gone through"
[17:03] Franziskus Ninetails: "Sleep well"
[17:03] Susanna Bloch: "Yesh, it wash very traumatic on shat boaty shingy of Shimmy's"
[17:03] Susanna Bloch has left chat range.
[17:03] Franziskus Ninetails: "Whew! what a busy day!"

A nice awakening

2012-01-25T13:15:00.002Z

Last night:

My second boy had to go to kennel early last night, so I had ordered my first boy River, to strip down naked in the court yard and to put on his cuffs ((still trying out the OpenCollar - and enjoying it)). Expecting me there.

After giving Ol' Grumpy another bottle of sul-paga for the night and checking the marketstalls a last time, I returned home. My slave expecting me in the court yard... kneeling... his legs spread wide... exposing his body to me.

I made him lick my boots and while he was busy doing so, I cuffed his wrists together on his back. Then made him open the laces of my pants and pull it down a bit, so he could lick my cock - the only lube he would get.

As the saliva already soaked my pubic hair, dripping from my balls down to the ground, I gagged my slutboy, pulled him up and pinned him against the whipping post... Chaining his arms over his head.

I took him quick... hard... merciless... sating my lust on my slave's body... and it didn't take too long to fill him with my cum.

Afterwards I released him from the chains and the gag and led him to my bedroom with a leash connected to his collar.

"I hope you enjoyed it, my Master", he asked on the way, walking a bit funny.
"How does your ass feel?", I asked him back.
"Sore, my master", he admitted.
"Then I think I enjoyed it...", I answered with a big grin and added ".. much!"

As we reached the bedroom I nodded towards the bed "Hop in, my lil sunshine!"
He climbed on to the bed and lied down obedient as always.
I attached the leash to the ring over the bed and locked it with a little padlock, then held the key up for my slave to see it. I pulled a ring out of my pocket and attached the key to this ring. Then I slid the ring with the key over my cock, explaining to my first boy: "Hmmmmmm... you can open your cuffs in the morning, my lil sunshine."
"Yes, my Master", he replied.
"But to get the key, you are not allowed to use your hands!"
He nodded understanding, his eyes growing a bit bigger.
I continued with a grin: "And with my morning-wood, it won't be so easy to get it off my cock."
"No, my Master", he whispered with his eyes fixed on the key - and my cock.
"Well... I am sure, you will find a way.....", I saidI undressed completely and joined him in the bed, pulling his body close to mine, covering his genitals with the palm of my hand.
Soon we both fell asleep - exhausted, but happy.

In the morning:

River’s eyes flicker open and he lifts his hand to shade against the bright sun that is streaming through the window. Behind him the strong well muscled body of his Master is pressed hard to his. A heavy hand is wrapped over him, covering his genitals, claiming them as its own.
He whimpers a little as his Master’s morning wood juts hard into his back and he tries to shift a little to alleviate the dull ache it is causing in the small of his back. The chain attached to the collar around his throat clinks against itself and River remembers his Master’s order. But first he has to extract himself from his Master’s tight embrace, without waking him up.
River inches a little closer to his Master, thinking that the hand would be limp enough to stay, but as he does his Master’s fist tightens in reflex, gripping his property in an unyielding hold, making River yelp a little as his fingers dig into his ball sack. He groans as his cock responds, solidifying in the embrace. He curses under his breath at how sensitive he had become since being enslaved. He never used to harden at the slightest touch. Carefully he reaches down and covers his Master’s hand with his own, stroking the skin with his fingertips until his Master loosened his grip.

Gently he lifts his Master’s hand from him and slides from under his restricting arm. Without his slave’s body to hold on to his Master rolls onto his back and stretches his arm above his head.
River collects himself, and examines his Master, his eyes going down to the massive solid phallus and the ring pushed up to the root and the small silver key that was resting on the full balls, nestled in the thick pubic hair. His Master had demanded that he release himself and to do that he needed that key but he had been ordered not to use his hands. River moved onto his knees and lowered his head, bringing his lips close to his Master’s cock; he felt the heat emanating from it before he even touched it. He brings his lips to the hard flesh and kisses it tenderly, feeling it twitch beneath them. Tentatively he touches his tongue to it, a groan forms in his throat as he tastes the dried body fluids, bitter on his tongue, from where his Master had used his body the night before. He lifted up his head and inside he thanked his Master for demanding that they are always so clean inside and out and he lowered his head again. He moved his mouth up over the ring, it’s tight and he tries to work out the best way to do this. With his Master as hard as he was, there was no way he could take that ring off. River takes a breath; he is left with only one option.
He moves down his Master’s body and licks at the tender piss slit, using the tip of his tongue to worm inside a little. He freezes as his Master groans, staying still until his Master was quiet again. River adjusted his position then moves his mouth again to his Master’s cock, taking the head between his lips, sucking on it. A moan forms in the back of his throat as it begins to leak and he sucks on it harder, swallowing the salty pre-cum. He begins to take the cock deeper, letting it slide to the back of his throat, his head bobbing up and down as he works. He starts to reach, to hold it erect to make it easier, but stops, again remembering that he had been forbidden to use his hands in the retrieval of the key.

He presses his tongue hard to the shaft as he sucks, massaging it with the strong muscle. His own cock juts painfully from his body, his balls full now and his piss slit leaking, dripping on to the sheets of his Master’s bed. River takes his Master all the way, gagging as he hits the back of his throat. His mouth waters out of control and he forces himself to swallow it and keep working.The sooner he can tempt his Master to come the sooner he can stop his efforts. He pushes forward, deep throating his Master, his nose buried deep in the thick pubic hair and the scent of his Master’s musk filling his senses. He feels his Master jump in his mouth and he sucks harder, moving his head up and down, encouraging his Master to mouth fuck him in his sleep. Again the cock jumps in his mouth, this time shooting hot cum down his throat. River swallows over and over, sucking hard to drain the solid phallus completely. Finally his Master begins to soften and he lets it fall limply from his mouth. He catches his breath and licks the remnants of the cum from his lips. He looks at his Master’s face expecting to see him looking back at him, but his eyes remained shut.

River’s eyes settle back to the ring that is now loose on the soft cock and he moves his lips back down to it. Again he takes his Master’s cock in his mouth, this time its soft and pliant, a moan forms again in his throat, suddenly turned on so much by the softness in his mouth. He closes his eyes; he had not been given permission to enjoy his task. River moves his mouth over the ring, taking it with his teeth and edging it down inch by inch. He pauses, not sure if he felt his Master move. When no hand moved to stop him, he continued with his task, sliding the ring off of his Master’s cock. He lifted his head and spits the ring and the key into his hand, smug that he had done it without waking his Master. His cock is throbbing but he sits up, a smile of his face on how clever he had been only to look up into his Master’s eyes, full of mirth, as he watches his slave.
River trembles under his gaze and lowers his head.
“Good morning, my lil Sunshine,” his Master says, his voice full of humour.
“Good morning, my Master,” River replies softly and holds up the key for his Master to take from him.

a few days later

2012-01-24T02:29:00.002Z

Still not so much to tell these days...

We continued being busy making nice vessels, bags, containers... for the NLS goods we sell. Though I am not sure, if we go on with that... After all we offer goods for RP-coins where you would pay L$, when you buy them at marketplace. Not sure, if it is worth the effort.

However, here's River at the pottery-wheel making nice bowls for wine-grapes:

We offer the NLS-grapes in these bowls. Nice decoration for everyone:

After being insulted in Tabor East with no reason at all, I considered to leave the whole Tabor-cluster. But then my boys convinced me, that we shouldn't leave it up to a single person to chase us from a place, we really like (Tabor Tropics), with some people we also like. So we just won't go to the other places. Their loss, not ours.

The frustration about the NLS continues anyways. I wonder, if there is any SIM and any people out there, who take it as "serious" as we do? Nobody really thinks about prices. And there are so many great chances for RP, but as long as everybody just gathers everything himself... etc. *sighs* Well, same song I sang before! However: Is there anybody out there who really likes to roleplay with the NLS? In a realistic way? Not slavegirls picking for metal ore in their fine dancing silks. Not warriors baking pies. (Okay, I tried baking once... had to feed the result to our sleen Fluffy who then was gone for almost a week...) Not slaves camping on harvesters OOC the whole day .

Okay, for something nicer: Got new outfit of me and my boys, so we match. It's lovely, I think. And they are so sexy in it!

River finally gained a bit weight, which suits him well. And we are testing the OpenCollar, which I - combined with RLV - enjoy a lot!

Missing my other two boys which I haven't seen since before christmas. As well as my son who vanished... Hope they are all well (RL).

Yesterday I finally could make it again to the Tabor OOC dance which I missed last week. Always enjoy that as the end of a hard RL-working weekend. And as we came home, we found a little "prezzie" on the table from Risky:

It was a dead urt (=rat). Risky is an urt-catcher... a cat.. or better said: A giani! (small panther-like cat on Gor). We thought it was funny and nice. Unfortunately the AV of Risky is mesh. As I returned to the old phoenix player, cause the new one caused too much trouble, I can't see mesh-Avatars. Only big bubbles. Really too bad! Would have been fun to RP with it.

Well, I think that's the news. And still no time to build.. *sigh*

Time for an update

2012-01-18T02:37:00.002Z

The new year is 18 days old and still just one entry. Oh my! But there's not so much to tell...

In Gorean RP (or the lack of it) the one or other thing annoying me... so we don't RP much and most of the time stick to ourselves, trying to enhance the RP at the Trading Post where we live in Tabor Tropics. Slowly we are building up some marketstalls for the Nutri Life System (NLS). I still think it would be a good system (though with a lot of deficits).. if people would just be interested to really use it as a Roleplay-chance instead of camping their AVs all day long on spawners and filling up crates after crates with goods nobody wants, because everyone else is doing exactly the same.

We are at least trying to encourage RP by building our own little items... handmade-baskets with fruits, little bags with black wine (coffee) and cacao powder, or this little bag for candies and a candy cane attached to the leg, which I just created this week:

Also planning to sell a new brand of black wine which we call "Kopi Urta", similar to the "Kopi Luwak". - Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, because it first has to pass the digestive tract of a little rodent ("luwak") that looks like this:

We call it tree-urt in Gor (urt = rat) and Endy saved one a while ago from the cold winter in Tabor. He set it into our patch of black wine and cacao bushes and fed it with berries. But one day, when we came back from travels, we had to notice, that it called it's whole family of tree-urts and they ate all the bushes and beans and left us only a lot of heaps of urt-poo....

... but in the poo, River found the almost undigested beans. He washed them and placed them on roasts to dry. So we will see, what comes out of that...

Hmmmm... what else? Tried a rescue-mission this week, but didn't get any hints IC (in character)... so as we are strict in that and not accept OOC-info by IMs and group-chat, we couldn't do much.

Went to some SIMs, as we wanted to RP trade, but most people are sitting in their houses (if present at all) and don't bother to look for the visitors. Okay... I have to admit, that we also not jump everytime, when someone enters the SIM. Sometimes too busy to cuddle or OOC to talk. But people passing by, not even bothering to say "hi!", either IC or OOC... that makes me always wonder. Even if they are busy with something else or OOC, it is a question of manners to say at least a greeting. That's a question of manners... but Gor seems to lack a lot of these.

There were some visitors last week, which were quite fun. I wished they would have stayed longer. They RPed in Tabor East... also came over to us two times... took over the bakery as our baker in Tabor was missing (now back... or not? Nobody knows)... and promptly were first accused of being griefers, because they just BEEN THERE, and then someone else called out in group chat, to stay away from Tabor East, because "those outlaws" are there. Interestingly it was exactly those people, who sit in their houses all day long, don't RP with anybody and have nothing better to do than to cam all over the cluster and spy other people's bedrooms. "We have visitors! Stay away! Lock your doors!" - Why please are people with such a mentality on Gorean RP-SIMs at all? - However, I found those visitors' blog and they are really funny, I think. A big loss, that they were not welcomed...

Oh, and the Dark Lord seems to be back! Yay! Most of the times fun to RP... I think, he was sneaking around our house, but this time unfortunately it was us (mea culpa!) who were OOC at that moment, because of some incident right before that, which made me a bit... uhm... upset.

So far about Gor. Apart from that... hm... got some nice Freebies at the kobalt-store. I love the sexy underwear there. There are some polo-shirts and some speedos:

Not sure, if they are still there. Just search for "kobalt" and take a look yourself. Mmmmmm, those bulges... love them!

Missed the Tabor Sunday Dance this week... :-( ... Due to some RL-events... well, some changes in the RL-job are coming, so I won't be able to spend so much time in SL anymore anyways, but at least I prolly will now have the one or other weekend off (or at least a saturday).

And I miss building! I still have sooooo many projects to finish. Maybe I should try to get at least the smaller ones ready and offer them at Marketplace? - My boys started their own offers at Marketplace and they are doing well with their builds.

For instance this lovely bird-bath from River:

.. or the as well lovely lanterne from Endy.

Well, that's it for today. I still will try to write more often. Promise! (that I try, not that I really do)

belated Happy New Year

2012-01-04T02:07:00.001Z

Hehe - Yes, it's a bit too late to wish a happy new year, isn't it?

So far to my resolutions of writing more (often) in my blog... But there's not much to tell as these days my time in SL is rare. Too many things that are annoying me, so I decided to take a little break from SL in general, and roleplay in particular. The few rare hours inworld I spend with my boys.

Oh, and finally I managed to get my picture on the menstuff-competition. Was a hard struggle to get it uploaded. Would be nice if the one or other of my readers and friends would go to the website and vote (even nicer it would be to vote for ME, of course!). The voting ends on the 7th January, so you better hurry. You have to register/sign in to be able to vote, but that's not a big deal...

What's new, Pussycat?

2011-12-29T01:48:00.000Z

Again I haven't written much the last weeks. Been working RL most of the holiday season and spent the rest of the rare time in SL; so no time to write here. I think I should get used to write at least one article per day, so I not forget, what happened...

The new/first slave of my Gor-son was a big disappointment. We all thought he was nice and we all welcomed him to the family, but he turned out as a weirdo. Got a big tantrum, shoting down River with no reason, interrupting a RP. - I thought it was just a tantrum for some reason... happens to the best.... and waited for him to calm down. But he started an odd, ridiculous vendetta with spellfire and other griefer-HUDs, bothering not only us but friends too. *shrugs* It seems, SL offers a platform for too many weirdos...

Roleplay these days been not much. For one reason we are in the wrong time-zone. Another reason is the season. Too many people are away for the holidays. And sometimes I have the feeling, that Gor-RP is about to die. Well, we're a bit "special" anyways, as we prefer "realistic" RP instead of the usual pew-pew, raid, burn down houses (ridiculoust thing ever to do, unless you do it really well, like those savages who - not used to buildings - tried to make a campfire in a taverne-room...), rape etc.

We had some big hope in the Nutri Life System (NLS), but it figures out to be a RP-killer instead of a RP-enhancement. People spending the whole day gathering products. Slavegirls kneeling in their dancing silks in gathering places and digging for salt and metal and gold... Or shooting down zillions of Tabuk (one-horned deer), verr (sheep), bosk (cows) and tarsk (pigs) to offer horn, wool and leather for dumping prices. I wonder, what's the point of it? It not only takes their time which they could spend more useful by doing RP, it's also not a bit realistic and it kills everybody else's RP with the NLS-goods too, as you don't have a chance to be a serious merchant. And I don't talk of making lots of NLS-coins. I have those plenty; don't need them. I would even give someone OOC some silver-tarsk so that he'd be able to buy goods from me, if he RPs it well! But what's the point, when you for example RP traveling to the desert in a caravane, haggling with merchants there for salt, and then you return with loads of salt... and you can right delete it, because you will never sell it. And why can't you sell it? Cause potential customers will either gather and grind for hours their own salt in gathering places (it should be only available in the desert BTB) or - even worse - buy it to 100s for some pennies from people, who have nothing else to do than camp on the spawners all day long.

Anyways... it's a bit frustrating as I really had hope in the NLS as RP-enchancement. If I could afford it, I would rent a SIM again and build a city, where the use of the NLS is controlled and taken as what it should be: An Enhancement, not a RP-killer.

However... today we made another attempt. We RPed to load a ship full of goods for the north. Including our new snow-sleen (fun!) plus his sled. The ship-loading was fun as we met a new healer of Tabor at the docks, who's a good RPer and who bought some of the medical supplies which we bought from the producers in Tabor Mountain.

When the ship was loaded, we travelled far north to sell stuff, which we had bought before from producers around Tabor and on our trading travels. The SIM we went to was crowded, so we thought we had some fun RP putting up a marketstand, offering goods, haggling and advertizing.... and been ignored.

People were gathering in the taverne, they didn't even bother to check the gates as we knocked loudly and blew the horn. Some of their warriors passing us without a word, not even wondering about the strangers in their city... We packed our crates and returned to the ship.

Fortunately on our way to the docks we met a blacksmith from another city, so finally we had some fun RP haggling with him and selling him some iron and candy canes. Too bad he didn't want the long-johns our seamstress in Tabor is knitting and which my boys modelled for him. :-) So after all it wasn't that bad thanks to this guy. And maybe we have more luck when next time we will visit his homestone...

My son's first slave

2011-12-22T01:27:00.000Z

Yes, I have a son on Gor, called Dar. Long story... He was away for a long time, but now he is back. And he became a member of the Tabor Guard.

This week he found a lost boy and took him for a trial period of three days. But he kept him, so today was the official collaring of Jasper. Another slave in our growing household.

Here are some pics. (I guess, one of my other boys will add the RP of the collaring):

me, myself and I

2011-12-21T03:22:00.000Z

After I finally finished the menstuff-Hunt last week, I wanted to take part at the competition. But for some reason it uploads and loads and loads and loads... well, it stucks in the upload and nothing happens. Oh well! No competition then. But here's the pic(s) I took for it. Sorry for the bad resolution, but they only allowed 512 x 512 pixels, which is not much:

Shape: # 125 "Curtis" from Jungle Boys
Skin: #20 LOGO
Hair: #78 Bad@zz
Eyes: #1 KMADD
Jacket: #3 Subversion
Jeans: #41 KamreK Creations
Boots: #35 Dino's Boutique
Necklace: #52 Mustang Trading Post
Facetattoo: #82 Trixa Design
Facelight: #108 Body Doubles
Pose: #27 VICE Poses

Disney Gor

2011-12-11T02:23:00.000Z

Now, this was too funny, as we were in the middle of a trading- and haggling-RP and this FAIRY came along, in silken fluffy clothes with wings... dancing barefoot through the high snow and claimed to be a panther. That gives "Disney Gor" a very new perspective!

busy week

2011-12-10T19:58:00.000Z

So, what happened this week? So much, that I can't even remember all. The main event was, that my lil devil Mick returned to the chain. Four boys now... I guess I need a Master-convalescence-holiday soon! :-)

Here's a pic of the collaring and my lovely boys. More pics and the whole ceremony you can read in my lil sunshine's blog.

I even made a bosk-roast all by myself. Masterly for my boys. It was well done. I mean... really.. very well done. My boys are sooooo fond of my cooking skills, but they were too modest and overwhelmed by the honor to eat more than a tiny piece of the delicious, very crunchy roast. (And if anyone tells you, my cooking skills would credit any Tuchuk torturer, he's lying!)

Last sundway we were dancing again at the OOC dance in Tabor:

This time we themed it White latex and we looked really hot and sexy.

Hmmm, can't remember much more about this week. Some pointless discussions. Oh, a RP where we spread candies all over the Tabor cluster, but unfortunately the slaves seem to be full of candies already, so nobody really searched for the lost candies. Did some trading with Iceberg for wool. Oh, and my son Darion Ninetails is now a member of the scarlets. Yay!

So, that's it as far as I remember...

It's the season

2011-12-01T17:02:00.000Z

The last weeks we were a bit busy preparing for christmas. Our Earth-Parcel is beach and as we didn't want to change this, we made a nice skybox. Pics will follow soon.

So, here's just a pic of River and me decorating the christmas-tree while Mick plays the bagpipe:

Chance - first boy of Tabor - has put out the traditional skating rink in Tabor and asked us to decorate Tabor Isle a bit. I wished I had more time... I'm a slooooooow builder, checking and rechecking again and again... but however, I think it's nice. And fun to complain IC (in character) about the "lazy slaves, who don't keep the ways free of snow", while I OOC (out of character) shoveled the snow there all by myself. :-)

This is one of those pictures... hmmm... I think, everybody, who likes to take pictures in SL knows the situation: I am normally in low graphics because of lag... but then you have this moment, where you think "Wow! That would be an amazing snapshot!", but as you are in low graphics, you want to do it even better... raising draw distance, atmospheric shader, playing with different windlights etc etc etc - and at the end, the result is just disappointing, as the magic moment is gone. - This is one of those disappointing pictures, but I don't have an other.

latex dancing

2011-11-28T19:35:00.000Z

As usual we been dancing sunday evening at the Tabor OOC dance. We decided to dress in latex and continued dancing even as the official dance was over. Totally forgot time. My boy River already posted some pics. Here's two more....

from left to right: BJ, me, River, Kenny, Kel

.... and two more effects I done with Photofunia, which is pretty simple to do:

hmmmm.....

2011-11-25T03:04:00.000Z

Not much to tell these days. Still on the hunt. And building our winter-hut, which will look fine, I think. So.. here's just a pic from me dancing at a beach-party at the Romanum-SIMs:

Oh! Uhm... forgot this: Met my dragon this week!

Gee! How could I forget to mention that!?!

2011-11-19T02:05:00.001Z

As I had mentioned: We are on the menstuff hunt. We just got 1/3 of all the gifts, so #1 - #50 are stored in my inventory, waiting to get opened. But apart from the hunt-gifts we also found some nice extra gifts. One at a shop called GIZZA Creations. When you join the group at the entrance, you can grap a lot of really nice gifts.

I took the time to take some pictures of the male gifts (there are gifts for women too...). I know... modelling for clothes shouldn't be with such distracting background, but I just had some fun in Ange's D.I.Y. Photostudio:

This is the "Blue Outfit" (.. I think. Though it's not much blue.)

The September gift

The June Gift

One of my Favorites: Blue Leather Outfit

The October Gift

(Don't like this so much;

that explains my sad look

although I'm sitting on Santa's lap)

The Valentine's Gift

(Love this one. Looks so cool

and I extra changed my hairstyle for it back to how it was a year ago)

The Sweater Outfits

The May Gift

The Male Leather Jacket

(and yes, I accidently chosen the same pose as with another outfit)

The First Year Gift

(It had a strange tie with it which I took off.

Without it, it looks quite gentleman-like. Like it!)

The November Gift

P.S.: 12 hours after this post, Gizza decided to charge 250 L$ for joining the group. That's a bit disappointing IMO, on the other side understandable, as many people just join the group to grap the gifts and then leave it again. - However, once joined, you will receive a monthly gift. Decide yourself, if you think it's worth the 250 L$.

My boys - the builders

2011-11-16T12:23:00.000Z

My lil sunshine River has his first build on marketplace. It's a cute Flying House, the perfect skybox. (Of course it's not really drivable... that would be a mass.) It's so lovely and I'm so proud of my building boys!

My lil moonbeam Endy will soon get his first build on Marketplace too, I hope. He's a promising talent and soon will get ahead of his Master.

the hunts

2011-11-16T12:16:00.000Z

We been on the builder's hunt last week, and I have to say... it was a bit disappointing. The worst organized hunt I've ever been to. Half of the shops on the list had no gift at all. And as they didn't have one, you didn't get the LM to the next one. etc. Bad organisation! And the gifts? I sorted them yesterday and half of it got directly into the trashcan. I don't know.... sometimes it seems to me, that shopowners put in those hunts their worst products with the motto "Doesn't hurt, when I give off THIS for free".. .which IMO is totally wrong. Who will ever return to your shop to BUY something, when he thinks you are building only crap?

The good thing at this hunt was: I always doubt my own building-skills and always try to get better... but I've seen a lot of shops and I've seen what people try to sell there and I realized: Most of that stuff I can do better.. and a lot of stuff others try to sell, I'm creating en passant, often giving it away for free or as bonus.

At the moment we are on the menstuff hunt. And that one is fun and the shops much better! Totally worth it.. I hope. I haven't unwrapped the gifts yet, as we are just at #25 of 150. As soon as we finished it, I'll report about it.

New old boy

2011-11-15T11:59:00.000Z

Again a whole week passed without a word written in here. The biggest news of this week is, that my former slave Brian found his way back into second life and to me. As we hadn't much time on friday, the collaring had to go quickly, so I had to improvise.... and no time to take pictures. I borrowed (and altered a bit) this one from my lil sunshine's blog. He also posted the whole ceremony.

Welcome back to the chain, my lil angel!

surprising RP

2011-11-07T17:26:00.000Z

Last thursday we just wanted to do some errands on the markets, but then had some hours fun with RP. Often it's the spontanous, unexpected RP, that's the most fun. And I enjoy those much more then fight, capture, torture and trading captives.
First we met the new baker and her girl, bought some honey from her. Then we were in the town to set up a marketstall for black wine and cacao, but then there was that tarn and..... Oh well! You can read it all in my boy River's blog.

And on this occasion also found the baker's girl's blog... and now even the blog of Lori, the baker, herself. Welcome to the blogosphere!

in Romanum

2011-11-07T17:14:00.000Z

On Saturday I got a call from a customer, who had bought the hacienda from me. Well, it seemed to have been partly a misunderstanding. Though it is explained in the notecard, here again a note about rezzers (not only mine! This is a SL-glitch according to EVERY rezzer): When you lower a rezzer so much, that the building parts are underground, then they might stick in there! The easy solution for this is: After moving the rezzer to the right position, derez and then rezz the building again. Now it should be all in the right position.
Anyways.. after solving this he showed me where he put the Hacienda down. It's on one of the Romanum SIMs. He changed the textures on the outer columns and added lions and a gate from Grey Kurka.... and it looks really nice there and fits in the SIM very well, I think!

(For the pic: Couldn't show more of the hacienda on this pic, as we were standing on the roof on the other side *g*)

1 year ago

2011-11-04T12:22:00.001Z

Unbelievable! 1 year goes by so fast and on the other side in SL can happen so much in 12 months... But with all what was happening, one person was always by my side: My boy River!

One year ago, on 4th of November 2010 I collared him. Each single day he showed me his love and devotion. And so many times he made me proud. (And of course horny too *g*)

Happy anniversary, my lil sunshine!

Love you very much!

Happy Rezzday, Finn

2011-10-31T09:54:00.000Z

On sunday evening we always go to the Tabor OOC dance. Not so this sunday, because it was Finn Millar's 2 rezzday party! Here are some pics:

me, Endy & River dancing

Finn & Spencer

we again

My boys with the tattoos that Endy made for the occasion

The rezzday-babe Finn

Tea-Party

2011-10-31T09:43:00.000Z

On Saturday I been to Tabor Highlands OOC dance. Theme was "Hat", so I dusted an old costume of which I have so many... and in all modesty, I have to say, it was the best costume there at all! But you know how it is with those contests... only depends on how many people you know to vote for you. I think one of the actually winners didn't even WEAR a hat (at least not on a bodypart where I could see it).

Anyways, here's a picture:

Hat: CatNip Mad Hatter 195 L$
Suit: Blackopal Designs 0 L$ (!) here and here

posing

2011-10-28T14:36:00.000+01:00

My lil sunshine River mentioned the pose some days ago, so my lil moonbeam Endy was busy trying to recreate the pose. It became pretty good and I like the pictures we did last night. Looking forward to my lil sunshine to post the pictures he'd taken:

Zombies

2011-10-27T10:46:00.001+01:00

Last night I met with Rammy to show him the house (so far). We talked a bit about "old times" (oh my! almost 4 years SL!) and then searched for the place where we have been a lot "when we were young" *grins*: Rosey Cheeks.

We found a halloween skybox which was really scarey. Both became victims of the Texas Chainsaw ~~Mascara~~ Massacre and got attacked by zombies....

A home for Rammy

2011-10-26T20:13:00.000+01:00

I wanted to wait with this until it is finished, but I'd like to show it now, as I'm talking about building-projects....

Two weeks ago I visited Rammy. He's the one on my friendslist who's there right from the beginning (I avoid to say "my oldest friend", cause he's complaining then "I'm not THAT old!!!") The first weeks/months of our SLife we were almost inseperapable. Now he isn't often online anymore and we only meet maybe once a month or less, but he's still a good friend.

Anywho... he showed me a pic of a house he would love to live in:

Which reminded me, that I always wanted to build a countryhouse. And as my lil moonbeam Endy gifted me a sculptmaking-tool which a friend recommended, I thought it is time! Sooooooo.... I started to make my own sculpts and use the countryhouse as training-object.

Here you see me working on it:

Still a lot of work to do, still a lot of sculpts to sculpt, but I think it's getting quite nice. For now it's only a raw draft (okay, I know so-called builders who would try to sell what I call 'raw draft' for about 2000 L$ on marketplace....), but I think Rammy will like it. (And hope the one or customer too, when I finished it)

Here's a close-up pic of me working on the roof:

A Short Dream

2011-10-26T19:59:00.001+01:00

Well, it started last saturday right before RL-work, when I get an offer from someone I met the one or other time, but never had closer contact to.... It was really a surprise: The offer that he'd buy a (Gorean) SIM and I'd have free hand in building and managing and administrating it. Though it did sound too good to be true - I hestitated. Cause most people in Tabor welcomed us warmly and I didn't plan to leave so soon again. And... well... even if I'd had the chance to restore my work I had done in a certain city, altering it to someone even better and greater... it would have been a lot of work.

So I needed some time to think about it. There was harvest festival in Tabor too (oh, and sooooo proud of my lil sunshine, who made first place in the Gorean Trivia!!!) and RL-work..... and I couldn't think really straight. But finally, after talking to some people in Tabor and after the agreement to add this new SIM to the cluster, I finally agreed on monday!

My boys and me were so excited! Already went shopping, searching for new textures and inspiration and other stuff....

One of the most impressive shops is Grey Kurka's! I mentioned it some posts before.

His texturing is awesome, and how he plays with prims... altering.. changing... cutting them.... it's truly inspired! At the same time I'd see his work as challenge to me, and I would have been happy for the chance to build something at least half as spectacular as his builds.

However, on tuesday, we got the notice, that due to some RL-issues our "sponsor" had to step back. :-(

Well, it shouldn't have been. It was a nice fantasy... cut as surprising as it was offered. But always looking at the bright side: Gives me more time to spend with my boys, for RP and for building stuff for my shop.

Busy building

2011-10-26T17:00:00.000+01:00

Didn't mention for a while my new updates on the store. I got some packs with paintings, also available as single paintings. As I sell them for 10 L$ each, with is the price for uploading them, it's not really a profitable business thingens; it just made me angry, that some people try to sell uploaded pictures, often not even adjusted to the original or in low resolution or with ugly frames (most of the times all this together) for 100 L$ or what....

Finn Millar made a great picture for the promotion of a poseball-shop ("Vice Poses"). Showing my basement. I have to say: It really looks very atmospheric! Of Course Finn and Spencer are great artists.

Okay... now, let me see... what did I put up to MP in the last weeks?

There was the blacksmith house I'd built for Corcyrus:

.....Another palm in a pot....

... my old store ....

... and a new version of the torvie house! Smaller than "The Merchant's House" and "The Poor Merchant's House", that's why I called it "The Merchant's Little Brother" :-) However, I abandoned alpha-windows and used sculpted windows this time, cause I'm annoyed by that alpha layer bug; so even as it is smaller, it uses some more prims.

And still lots of projects upcoming!

Chirp

2011-10-22T01:46:00.000+01:00

I thought, my lil moonbeam had a roo-AV, but it was only one of his meeroos in a bunny-costume. However, I got us demo-versions of a roo-AV (the demo is okay, the full version not worth the 800 L$ IMHO). So, here you see our pet-roos + me and River. Can you tell who's who?

honored

2011-10-21T23:34:00.000+01:00

Awwwww! Eddi Haskell - busiest blogger I know - wrote an article about my photographs. Hmmm, I don't see myself as artist in photographs, but hey, if Eddi says so! Thank you!

Read here!

Impressive

2011-10-17T22:55:00.000+01:00

Been dancing at Romanum this night and then looked around the SIM a bit. I found this roman villa and... wow! I'm not easy to impress, but this is a stunning built!

The Creator is Grey Kurka.

Very well done! Kowtow!

For the giggles

2011-10-13T19:58:00.000+01:00

And now for something completely different

2011-10-12T13:00:00.000+01:00

Time to write about other things!

So, it's the season... no, not THAT season, but halloween season. On saturday (before that crap started) I've been with my boys on a hunt at Big Momma's House.

It was so much fun. You have to talk and defeat skeletons, witches, werewolves, vampires, barbie (!) etc. Spooky atmosphere! Really worth a visit. And it won't take so long. Thumbs up!

Hehe! I had to post this picture as some of the roos becoming even bigger than my lil moonbeam. But yes! even our roos celebrate halloween!

Can't see it too well, but we have a zombie roo, a skelly roo, a ghost roo (testimo) and a mummy roo (I think). They are sooooooooo cute! [I think as far as I understood, they are costumes available at the roo-store, so you can just "dress" your existing roos up]

So, yesterday was my lil sunshine's 1st rezzday. We had not much time together, but at least went dancing to Arsenal and had some fun. So sexy kittehs I got:

And after my boys went to bed... late at night... my Bestie Tel invited me over to the haunted house he and Dee had done. I changed into Jack Skellington and jumped over. It was so much fun and their work is amazing:

It was good to get other thoughts and to have some fun. Thanks, Tel & Dee!

Good bye, Corcyrus!

2011-10-10T15:07:00.008+01:00

2,5 Years ago I started to build Tidra. And it all started with creating a lost temple. It grew and it became a wonderful place. Silent and peaceful as well as mysterious, adventurous and dangerous at the same time.

The Isle of Tidra grew around that temple. Waterfalls, caves, jungle.. finally a fort... But the temple always was my heart, my soul, my homestone in the Gorean sense. Sacred and untouchable. It was a hard time when around christmas 2010 I had to give the SIM up and Tidra was devoured by the big Thassa sea.

In May 2011, I met Sondra Jevon. First I just offered to help her to landscape and to arrange her houses on her new SIM. But then I showed her the temple and she was enthralled. So a dream which I thought was dead, came to live again. The chance that at least a part of Tidra - it's heart & soul, it's homestone - would survive.. this chance gave me the power to build for 12 weeks night and day the City of Corcyrus. Starting with the temple, then the baths of Tidra, the underworld of Corcyrus, finally the City of Corcyrus built on this fundament.

I've built the whole city pro bono. Without payment. Opposite - even spent a lot of money for this and that. And even more: My boy Endy paid her a whole months tier (or more; he never answered my question) just for the chance to let me build my dream. I did this under the confirmed conditions that the temple and some of the buildings of Tidra this way could survive.

In the city built on the fundaments I tried to combine my own ideas of a Gorean city with what was described about Corcyrus in the books. A touch of Venice at the docks of the river, a greek & roman style winding up the hills to the agora, the gardens of Antisthenes (would have loved to do more there, but watching prims and times I couldn't) etc.

As the city was finished lots of people came, Corcyrus became one of the cities with the most traffic among all Gorean SIMs. And most of this because of the beauty of the city. But also a lot of people left soon again. I won't talk about the reasons here though I know the one or other.

While I was still building there, we once already had a big drama, as Sondra, the sim-owner rented out my "baby", the temple, against my will, and the tenants started to demand "this has to get off! Take that off! Change this!". And I said "Screw you!" and once more I made it pretty clear to the SIM-owner, that the temple is sacred, untouchable and a place for everyone to enjoy and explore.

So far so good.... So, this weekend, on saturday, after work I wanted to spend a nice and relaxed evening with my boys. And then it started: "Franzi, the temple ruins have to go off!" - Well, a lot of drama followed, especially with people intervening who had no idea what is really behind it all. - They had no idea about the contracts, the conditions, the meaning...

However my first intention was to take off ALL my stuff. Especially when I heard about the planned changes made by low-class builders. But I was willing to try and to discuss with the people, to explain the background and the importance of the temple to me. Got no chance, as I was interrupted all the time by her, she never stop talking, although several people tried to help to find a solution.

Anyways, I would have had every moral and legal right to delete all my buildings as I was betrayed and the contract broken. But I didn't. Tired of the drama I just took off the temple (which was less then 400 prims) and the ruins above it. As wished. I ripped out the heart and soul of Corcyrus, it's actual homestone. Then I turned my back to the City of Corcyrus. This is not "my" city anymore. They are destroying it's image, it's character, it's charme. I don't care anymore. It is doomed. It will go down soon. And no, I don't care.

Farewell, City of Corcyrus! To me you are a city of dust!

******* Short time later *****

AfterI wrote this, someone handed me this chat-log. I really was willing to leave the city for the citizens of Corcyrus, but the betrayal is even bigger, so this "faggot" here (me) is going to take his stuff back now. As my "little grecko roman architecture is easily duplicated" I am sure you don't have any problems to rebuild it!

[18:21] jason36 String: but i must ask a question
[18:21] Sondra Jevon: sure ask
[18:21] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): i'm pleased to hear that Jason , i think you'll do a better job then some one else we know
[18:21] jason36 String: was the pathway tunnel created in the wall ?
[18:22] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): is was saying the same thing giggles
[18:22] Sondra Jevon: Im not sure what you mean
[18:23] jason36 String: i was talking with abares and suggested a tunnel be inside the city walls
[18:23] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): i have no clue either
[18:23] jason36 String frustrated he walks to the wall
[18:23] Sondra Jevon: Oh the wall cant be altered, via Franz
[18:23] Sondra Jevon: maybe we can find some way to get into it
[18:24] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): no we dont need to add to that
[18:24] jason36 String: ok no, the wall is not hollow with a travel path
[18:24] maia (anya.herberg): why not just under it
[18:24] jason36 String: inside it
[18:24] Sondra Jevon: But what I would like to do is slowly recreate the city saving the catacombs so I can alter the builds and not worrry about Franz happy trigger finger
[18:25] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): i think i know what he was thinking ... a way into the wall to get into the catacombs?
[18:25] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): fuck franz
[18:25] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): Franz won't pull up the city
[18:25] jason36 String: No thanks he'd likeit
[18:25] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): he's a whining little bitch that thinks he can talk to you like that sweetheart
[18:25] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): Its not to his advantage to do so
[18:25] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): he kept things his way till he got yelled at
[18:26] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): i have to agree with max business wise it would be bad business
[18:26] jason36 String: besides... I guarantee you his little grecko roman architecture is easily duplicated
[18:26] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): ok, in all fairness it wasn't so very long ago he went to great efforts and invested a lot of time building here.
[18:26] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): you need to stop being scare of him for doing this shit ..... if he does you can report him and sew him just like you say he can you
[18:26] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): scared*
[18:26] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): I can see why he would be frustrated at that being thrown away so soon after
[18:26] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): any builder would
[18:27] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): but at the same time he needs to understand the why
[18:27] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): yeah but when Sondra doesnt take the sim it wil be all in his inventory
[18:27] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): so what did he gain then?
[18:27] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): totally nothing
[18:27] jason36 String groans... I was contacted to build one building on an entire 1024x1024 plot...
[18:27] jason36 String: was told all along I love it i love it i love it
[18:27] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): oh i rememeber that
[18:27] jason36 String: then it was returned the day I was supposed to be paid
[18:28] Sondra Jevon: I am taking the Sim though I have an Alt that will do it
[18:28] maia (anya.herberg) cant help giggling..knowing how an invetory grows and gets a mess
[18:28] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): he was crushed when after it was all done she took it down
[18:28] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): This wasn't even a for pay job though
[18:28] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): I do this on sims to example my work for prospective clients.. however theres always a 12 month contract it won't be removed unless the sim goes
[18:28] jason36 String: my point is DIVA-builders are not all that...
[18:29] jason36 String: i didnt care if the building went up or came down... I just wanted paid
[18:29] jason36 String: i built it like i was asked

[18:30] Sondra Jevon: It was all about his Ruins he held those very special to him
[18:30] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): i understand his being upset but this is about RL money ... and unless he was going to pay for the sim to stay as it is he needs to understand RL does happen
[18:30] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): Of course he did
[18:30] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): He spent a great deal of time building those
[18:30] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): have anybody seen the shit he put on his website ?
[18:30] Sondra Jevon: And I had talked to his boys many times prior to talking to him Understanding they had told him
[18:30] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): he's making this personal in more then one way
[18:30] maia (anya.herberg) shakes her head
[18:30] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): i wasnt going to mention that but yes i read the blog
[18:31] Sondra Jevon: River said he had told Franz and come to find he did not
[18:31] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): give me one good reason why you would take that ?
[18:31] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): The most valuable thing anyone has is their time.. its the one thing that can never be recaptured
[18:31] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): fuck those nancy boy
[18:31] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): boys
[18:31] jason36 String: i intend on hitting that myself... going to mention how his poor little boy has to come to his defense when he was asked to remove a build and got his shiny panties in a wad
[18:31] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): wow
[18:32] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): yeah and dont ask why they are shiny
[18:32] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr): \EEEWWWW
[18:32] jason36 String: lmao
[18:32] maia (anya.herberg) looks nancy up in her slavebook.. keeps her tounge straight licking every page until N
[18:33] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): i know the ruins had to take a long time to build jaiden
[18:33] Sondra Jevon: haha silly girl maia
[18:33] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): Yes, they did
[18:33] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): but this was about RL money and not about hurting him
[18:33] Sondra Jevon: He had them prebuilt
[18:33] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): I understand that
[18:33] Sondra Jevon: All he did was set them down and put it back in place
[18:33] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): Prebuilt?
[18:33] your worst Nightmare (maximus.khandr) whispers: Queer , Gay , Homo , Fagot = Nancy .... maia
[18:33] Sondra Jevon: yes
[18:34] jason36 String: i didnt go there
[18:34] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): then the attack in the blog was over the top
[18:34] jason36 String: he was a diva moment
[18:34] Sondra Jevon: He had them on a different Sim and had a Love interest there That is why they mean so much to him
[18:34] jason36 String: "have a snickers" really
[18:34] maia (anya.herberg): aha thank You Master
[18:34] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): OK, this has transversed over into nastiness
[18:34] Sondra Jevon: So they were Not built Here
[18:34] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): seeya
[18:34] jason36 String: but yes Sondra this is fine for the school
[18:35] Hope String (hope.chatterbox): now boys .... that is not nice we each have our own preference
[18:35] Jαїdεᾔ (superduperevilunicorn): disgusting shit.. gezuz.. good luck sondra.. your gonna need it

new house

2011-09-21T12:47:00.000+01:00

Finally got the new house on marketplace which I had build for the tropics. Still about +/-153 projects to go...

on the radio

2011-09-20T13:40:00.000+01:00

Last night the Gorean Portal Radio sent live from the City of Corcyrus. So after my boys were all to bed, I went over there and listened and watched for a while. The moderator was full of praise for the beauty of the city, which made me a bit proud, even if my name wasn't mentioned.

The chat was fun, the music nice: Disney-tunes. (Disney... Gor... get it?) Girls dancing... well, "girls" is relative, as according to their movie-experience ("Oh, I remember the day "Bambi" came out! I was at the opening with my parents!" - Bambi was released 1942!) each of them was older than me, but hey! Girls will be girls, and boys will be boys, and in SL everyone can be what he wants to be. (And if I were straight, I'd prefer a "girl" with experience. Those "older girls", who I know in SL are much cooler and less bitchy than the twens.)

I took a picture. Not my best ones, but gives an impression of the evening.

The only sad thing: Apart from the head-scribe I didn't know ANYONE there. It's a strange feeling to come to the city that you built, and most people won't even recognize you anymore and ask "And who are YOU?"...

A day at the market

2011-09-06T15:51:00.000+01:00

This was last saturday at the market in Tabor (Fields). I just came home from RL-work and when I logged in I had to realize, that River had parked my AV (yeah, he has my password) in the middle of the marketstalls. Well, at least I wasn't naked! :-)

However, I more or less was forced to immediately RP, but it was fun. I cleaned up the chatlog, as there were a lot of communications/RPs crossing each other...

I enjoyed it, and it was a good example for using the NLS. Of course I could buy a barrel of salt for 10 TS from someone who was just camping his AV at a spawner in one of the gathering patches. I see people offering goods way too cheap and without any prove or realistic reason how they got it IC. It's frustrating and annoying. And if it doesn't get better, we will give up on the NLS and only use it for our personal needs.

As you see: I'd paid 75 TS for a barrel of salt and I did it with joy, as it was fun to haggle and RP. I just wished, people would become insightful enough, that this is it all about!

****

Josh: "Greetings, Master. Klima is using new price, Master!"

Josh shouts "Master Franzi endorses Klima salt!" and points to Master at market stand.

The baker shouts: "Pies! Pies! We've got Larma, strawberry and cherry! Fresh chocolate cookies! Bread! Fresh baked by the loaf or just get a slice to tide you over until you can sit down to a meal!"

Josh shouts: "Salt to put on the bread! Bread tastes good with some extra salt!"

Josh whispers: "Don't push in line everybody, please, one at a time..."

Malex walks over to the gathered crowd to see the Klima-boy and his salt

Josh smiles to see Malex come up.

Franziskus Ninetails wakes up from his little... his DEEP nap behind the marketstalls, wondering how he came here and if his slaves have carried him on a cart to the market. He mumbles to himself "I never touch paga again!", but then looks around for some new barrels to fill his stocks.

Franziskus Ninetails blinks at the gatherd crowd of merchants and their slaves and nods to some.

Malex looks up at the barrel of salt not ever having seen so much and reaches up to taste it.

Franziskus Ninetails looks around and finds most marketstalls already empy. "Hmmm, seems trades were running good!". His eyes searching especially for barrels and salt as his stocks seemed to emptied the last days mysterioulsy.

Franziskus Ninetails recognizes the boy from Klima and smiles to him "Tal, boy. You came a long way from the desert!"

Josh: "Greetings, Master! Aye, but wouldn't miss market day!"

Franziskus Ninetails looks what the boy has to offer. He wets his little finger and dips it into the salt, then licks it. He nods "Hmmm, not bad! How much for the salt, boy?"

Josh: "Only 1 Copper, Master. Good price for salt dragged far from desert. Have a taste if you would like, Master!"

Franziskus Ninetails stretches his little finger out and smiles "Already had a taste. Klima is well known for his high quality of salt!"

Josh: "Salt is good for food, and for torturing prisoners too. Of course, not for torturing prisoners from Tabor... only for other places..."

Franziskus Ninetails frowns a bit... the price not bad for this region, but he keeps his pokerface. He scratches his head "Hmmmm...... a copper tarsk per barrel?" He shakes his head like a sleen and speaks slowly as if not sure "Weeeelllll... I don't know... hmmmmm..... What if I take 10 barrels? Do I get it cheaper?"

Josh: "10 barrels? Yes, Master, lets see now... " He goes through the scroll in his head... tries to remember instructions, just a slave so has to check instruction scroll... 'Hey, there a 10 for 8 deal on Master, 10 for the price of 8, special for Tabor Market!" He counts on his fingers.

Franziskus Ninetails from the corner of his eyes watches cautiously the hooded man near him. His hand rests on his pouch firmly. As he hears Josh's price he does some maths in his head and nods "Hmmm.. that sounds better. What if I take... hmmm... .100?"

Josh: "Argggg, Master, I didnt bring that many!!! It was just me on caravan route, and just me working almost to death in salt mine to mine this stuff. But I can tell Master Merchant if you are interested in big shipment. He can whip more slaves to death to get the salt out for you"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles understanding "Oh well... how many DID you bring then?"

Josh: "Lemme count, Master" He counts, then: "We got 28 left, Master. I can deliver them to you if you want to."

Franziskus Ninetails nods "Good... then lets say... 20? How much per barrel if I take 20?"

Josh: "Aye, Master, 20 at 20 per cent off.... so that's.... ermm... 80 Tarsks bits each, Master. You drive hard bargain, Master!", he says, admiring customer prowess.

Franziskus Ninetails frowns "Didn't you just say, 8 for for 10? So... there won't be a difference, if I take 10 or 20?"

The baker standing next to them: "What price for the rest so you don't have to haul all that heavy, heavy salt back home?"

Josh: "Well, how about 70 each then, Master? Great end of day special!". He checks the scroll and thinks he can get away with this and not be beaten half to death for low price.

Franziskus Ninetails nods "That sounds better. But I have a good day... so... I'll give you 15 KT for the 20 barrels. Don't want a nice boy like you be whipped for bringing less coins home then expected!"

Josh: "Whew! Thank you, Master!"

Franziskus Ninetails: "AND... I'll give you some of the cherry candy my boys made"

Josh: "Whoah!! Candy too! Thank you, Master!" He picks up the salt and loads it for the master.

Franziskus Ninetails takes his pouch and starts to count the coins on the board of the marketstall.

Josh opens eyes wide as the master takes out coins. He wipes his brow relieved to be coming home with some bons. He smiles very gratefuly to the master for the sale, and for the candy too.

Franziskus Ninetails places three cherry candies to the coins for the long way home.

The baker waits for the deal to complete.

Josh pops a candy in his mouth and keeps on loading. He loads more and more of salt lightening the burden for trip home to desert. He hefts 2 more salts, one after the other, sweating but not as much as in hot desert mine. He looks at the master , thinks he must be wealthy man to have so many coins for market day. He cheers as last salt is loaded.

[Took so long to buy 20 barrels one after the other]

Josh: "Thank you, Master, for buying salt"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles as the slave puts it all over to the cart "My boys will carry it later home."

Josh: "If you need more salt or iron ore, Klima can supply"

Franziskus Ninetails rubs his belly "Hmmm, shopping made me hungry. Where do I find something to eat?"

Josh: "Theres some bread over there, Master"

The baker: "Boy, how much salt do you have left and at what price? And what else do you have to offer?"

Josh: "Master, I only have a few salts left, but there are more I can get very soon if you would like. - Let me count... 8 salts left, Master"

The baker nods.....

Meanwhile Franziskus Ninetails: "Bread? Hmmm..... ". He looks around for the baker and for the butcher. "I'd be in the mood for an urt on a stick. But I don't think they have a delicacy like that here?" He looks around and raises his voice asking "Who's the baker?"

Alex: "I don't think the butcher is here, Master, haven't seen him. My Master buys supplies, but I can help you." He waits to see what the Master wanted to buy.

Franziskus Ninetails smiles down to the long haired boy "You are the baker's slave? Hmmm... I think I saw you the other day in the taverne"

Alex: "Yes, I'm the baker's slave, Master"

Franziskus Ninetails looks at the offered goods and point to the one on the top "Is that chocolate cookies?"

Alex: "Yes, it is, Master"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Hmmm, how much are they?"

Alex looks over to the baker who's still at the stall with the salt: "How much for the cookies my master?"

The baker: "10 TS"

Alex: "10 TS for cookies"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles "Oh, that's cheap. They are fresh, aren't they?`"

Alex: "Yes, they are"

The baker now coming over: "A sample cookie for you, sir!"

Franziskus Ninetails takes the cookie from the man and smiles "Ah, you are the baker then? Thank you!"

Alex: "My Master is the one to price them"

Franziskus Ninetails bites into the cookie and chews it slowly, then nods "Mmmmmm..... very well. Of course..." He swallows and smiles ".... it would be even better if you use the 'Torpical Gold' for it!"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, pack 10 of it, I'll bring some to my boys too, to taste the cookies"

Alex grabs a paper bag and puts ten cookies in it then hands it to the Master "Here you go Master."

Franziskus Ninetails to the baker: "I'd be glad to visit you to negotiate about cacao-pouder, Baker!"

The baker: "It's too early to tell. I need to see how much I sell each week"

Franziskus Ninetails takes one of the cookies he just bought from the pack and starts to eat it. He points with the half cookie to Daneil "Isn''t that Daneil over there? I have to talk to him!"

River blinks as he hears his master's voice.

River: "My master!"

Josh: "Brother River, I havent seen you in a long time!"

River: "Greetings, brother"

Alex: "Greetings"

Franziskus Ninetails pats his boy's head "I bought some salt. Josh put it on the wagon already, mine"

River: "Yes, my master"

Franziskus Ninetails reaches the package with the cookies to his boy "Here! Take a cookie, my lil sunshine!"

The baker to Franzi: "Thank you for your purchase! Safe paths! Alex, I need to see to an errand again, I'll be back soon"

Franziskus Ninetails looks down to his boy "Do we have some samples left of the Tropical Gold, my lil sunshine?"

River: "I think so, my master. Let me check"

Franziskus Ninetails: "You could give the baker one to test it with the chocolate cookies"

River: "I have four tropical gold samples left, my master". He nibbles his cookie happily, now his stomach feels better he is hungry.

Franziskus Ninetails nods to his slave "Give one to...." - he looks at the long haired slave "... what's your name, baker's slave?"

River mumbles "fank u mu mafter,"

Alex: "They call me alex"

Franziskus Ninetails nods and turns to his boy again "... give a sample to Alex, so his Master can test his next cookies with our Tropical Gold"

River smiles and hands the boy a sample.

Alex: "Thank you. I'm sure he will apreciate it"

River whispers: "It makes nice milk"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Do we have bread at home, mine?"

River "I think we could do with some, my master. I haven't baked in a few days as i have been harvesting."

Franziskus Ninetails searches in his pouch and reaches two copper tarsk to his boy "Buy some bread and a pie, mine. I have to talk to Daneil now!"

River: "Yes, my master"

Franziskus Ninetails as he is searching for the coins finds another candy sticking to his finger. He holds it to Alex' lips "Uhm... here.. for you"

Alex: "Thank you, master"

River examines the bread deciding which his master would prefer. He sees the pie. "hmmmm pie...". He drools.

Franziskus Ninetails sneaks up behind Daneil and slaps his shoulder, surprising him "Daneil! Greetings to you"

Daneil: "Greetings"

Franziskus Ninetails: "I heard you are growing sul and sa-tarna, is that right?"

Daneil: "Yes"

Franziskus Ninetails notices Chance in the crowd and winks to him before he turns his attention back to Daneil: " Do you have a brewer too? For some reason my stocks of sa-tarna and sul-paga are emptying.. uhm.. .mysteriously all the time."

River hands the boy the coins and carries the bread and pie over to his master.

Franziskus Ninetails: "I would order some barrels... but I don't know, if you brew yourself or sell your grains and suls to a brewer?"

Daneil: "I just grow and sell"

River puts the bread and pie with the rest of his belongings and picks up his lute again, really wishing his brother was there as he prefers to dance than play.

Daneil: "I don't know a brewer"

Franziskus Ninetails scratches his head "Well, to whom do you sell then? Only to the baker?"

Daneil: "Who ever wants to buy"

River starts to play his lute again hoping to bring customers to his master's stall.

Franziskus Ninetails shrugs and leaves "Well then... I'll find one. Thank you anyways"

Daneil: "No problem"

[Okay... no idea about THAT convo....]

Franziskus Ninetails turns to the next marketstall, noticing Mike again "Ah, Tal again, Mike. Your fingers are better from cutting all the olives?" As he doesn't get an answer he frowns "Hmmm, boy must have fallen asleep..."

River: "My master, I put it with the rest of our stuff"

Franziskus Ninetails nods over his shoulder to his slave, then takes the bottle of Kalana-wine from the next marketstall and smells at it "Mmm, rich smell... warm... "

Franziskus Ninetails mumbles "Who's the vintner of this wine?" and reads the label

Chance hears Franzi and grins over "It is Master Will"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Hmmm, Will Galuptra... " He looks around then down to Chance "And where is he? I want to buy two or three bottles"

Franziskus Ninetails: "I still got stocks from Kalana Fjord, but it's.. hmmm... well, wine for... common people. This one looks... a bit more precious.. for my private use"

Chance looks to him "Master, I carry his pouch for putting coins in. He walked back to his house for a moment"

Franziskus Ninetails reads the price "Hmmm... 25 copper bits? That's... not expensive at all"

River places more bags of blackwine on display smiling to himself.

Chance looks at him intently "Master, it is very good wine!"

Franziskus Ninetails places a copper tarsk on the counter and grabs four bottles, looking around for his boy to hand them to him

River notices his master looking for him and quickly finishes filling more bags and runs to join him.

River: "Forgive me, my master, I was restocking"

Chance grins at River "Good sales today, brother?"

River: "Aye brother, sold all the tabor soft only two bags left"

River sees the master finish with josh and runs over to see if he can attract him to his stall.

Chance snickers.

River: "Samples! Free samples!" To Bearded: "Master try my master's samples?"

Chance waves to Rowan "Bazi for sale here, brother"

River: "The finest blackwine in tabor!"

Bearded of Tabor looks around trying to find some wines and hears chance.

River: "Free samples!"

Bearded of Tabor: "Bazi tea?"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Tal, Scribe"

Bearded of Tabor: "Tal Franzi.... It looks like you have a good market here today again"

River makes himself look busy, making sure that the store is tidy.

Bearded of Tabor spies some grapes.

Franziskus Ninetails smiles "Not mine, but..." - He looks over his shoulder with a warm smile at his slave, then turns his attentiong back to Bearded "... my boy seems to enjoy it"

Bearded of Tabor sighs realising the crate is empty.

Bearded of Tabor: "The boys do seem to enjoy the market... I am not sure if this is where chance gets some of his candies..."

Chance: "Master, I have beetles for sale!" perks up.

Franziskus Ninetails shouts over to Mike "VISIT US THE NEXT DAYS, MIKE. WE'D NEED SUGAR SOON!"

Mike shouts back: "Yes, master!"

Franziskus Ninetails mumbles "That slave seems to work too hard. He seems so tired"

River louder "SAMPLES! FREE SAMPLES OF THE FINEST BLACK WINE IN TABOR!" Chance: "Whose slave is he, master?"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Mike? He's Dragonlord's, I think"

River puts his lute on the ground and picks up his flute.

Bearded of Tabor buys some wine and some BAzi tea.

Josh in a distance: "How much is the blackwine, brother?"

River: "We have a special offer, brother"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, I have to see how my boy is doing... Excuse me!" ((talking of blackwine.. I need coffee....))

River points to the board "3.60 KT for a pack of 12 portions. Special offer for today"

River plays his flute softly .. losing himself in the music as he always does.

Josh sees sign about cacao powder and forgets blackwine.

River kicks a bag of tropical gold to josh seeing him looking at it with eager eyes, he winks as he plays.

Franziskus Ninetails rests a bit on the barrels on the cart, listening to his slave playing the lute and humming some melody to it.

Josh sees cacaobeans..."ermmm... brother... Food is so boring in desert. I think baker... if we had a baker, would love some cacaopowder". He thinks of cookies iliek the one he had a ilttle while ago.

Josh looks to cacaopower. "Master, may I be allowed to get some cacaopowder for Klima?"

River picks up his finger cymbles and then begins to dance to the sound.

Franziskus Ninetails smiles at the desert-boy "Do you have bosks in your oasis?"

Bearded of Tabor watches the boy dance in the corner.

Josh: "Aye, Master, we do. They aren't very happy but they are there"

Franziskus Ninetails nods "You can put some pouder into milk. Delicious!"

River moves his body to the sound of the bells, enticing the master's to watch him.

Josh: "Oh, yes. Sounds great Master! May I go ahead and get some now, to take back to desert?"

Franziskus Ninetails: "How much cacaopouder do we have left mine?", he asks his dancing boy, trying to catch his attention

Josh as he finds the sample River kicked to him: "Oh, thank you, brother. I didn't see you handing me that"

River smiles.

Josh: "I'm a little dazed from all the business"

River wriggles his cute behind as he dances ... his lips moisted by his tongue.

Josh looks to River: "Brother, was that the 3 copper bag?"

Franziskus Ninetails as his slave doesn't answer him, slaps his butt as he walks by to take a look himself.

River eeps.

Josh: "Rrrivvvveeerrrrr!"

River: "Aye, brother"

Josh: "thanks, brother"

River: "But that was a free sample for you"

Josh: "Oh, I was going to pay from klima sales, brother"

River: "For three coins you get a bag of ten portions"

River: "Oh no, brother.. that was for your master"

Franziskus Ninetails frowns as he opens the empty crate, looks to Josh with a sad face "Sorry, it seems it's all sold out"

Josh: "Oh, thank you, brother." He looks to see if he has something for River's Master too...

Josh whispers to River: "Does your Master like cherry candy, River?"

River: "Brother, if your master wishes to place an order, I can get it to you for tomorrow."

Josh: "I wish I knew where to find my Master to ask him!"

Josh hands his supply of cherry candy to River for his Master and for River too, thanking them for great day."

River looks to his master.

Franziskus Ninetails frowns as he sees Josh handing the cherry candies he just gave him a while ago now offers to River. "You don't like cherry candies, boy?"

Josh: "Oh no!". He blushes deeply. "I thought it was some I had from before"

River: "Oh, thank you, brother", he says accepting the candy, "I will share with my brother if I might"

Josh smacks red: "Master, I love the candy, thats why it was such a good gift to give to thank you for today... oh, well, I will find something somehow to show appreciation"

Franziskus Ninetails grins "Endy made a lot of them. He made it all himself!", smiling proudly.

River stops dancing and kneels before his master.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Maybe we should make more and sell them to the baker?", looks over his shoulder to the baker's boy.

Josh: "Time to get back to desert now"

River's face flushed and his blood coursing through his veins with excitement.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Before the cherries we brought from Kalana get bad"

River: "Yes, my master. I went serching for a bee hive so we could have some honey, master, but I couldnt find one."

Josh packs up cart and empty sacks, and also cacao powder

Franziskus Ninetails nods to Josh "Safe paths. It's a long way you have back, Josh"

Josh: "Safe paths, Master"

River: "Safe paths, brother, it was good to see you again"

Josh: "Aye, but I can stop along the way too"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Tell your Master, I'm always buying salt, when the price is good"

Josh: "Good to see you too, River, hope to see you soon. Safe paths, Masters. Be well, brothers"

River: "Should I load the wagon, my master?" He begins to gather up his master's goods and puts them on the wagon along with his master's purchases for the day.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, it's getting dark, my lil sunshine. Time to get back home"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles at Will "Ah, Tal, Will. Didn't see you. I bought some bottles of your wine. Looking forward to taste it. I see you are tasting the chocolate cookies. They are fine, but I think they will be even better with our newest cacao breed 'Tropical gold'!"

Will nods to Chance "Yes, see to it, boy." Then looks to Franzi and smiles to the man: "Greetings, Franzi! Thank you! I did get some of your blackwine and cocoa as well, I am hoping mine will learn to cook with the cocoa"

Franziskus Ninetails: "I hope the baker comes to order some"

Franziskus Ninetails smiles "If nothing else helps... chocolate milk is easy to make"

Will glances at the baker's boy, "I haven't met this new baker, but surely he will have need"

Will chuckles looking to River, "That one suggested that as well... I favor the wine more than the sweets in my drink, but some cookies around the house would be welcome"

Franziskus Ninetails: "Did you ever try to brew paga and sul-paga besides making wine, Will? I shortly talked to Daneil who grows the grains and suls, but he didn't know a brewer... I had brought stome stocks from the north where I lived, but mysteriously it was all sold out at night"

Will looks thoughtful and shakes his head, "No, I keep mine busy enough as it is I think... but I may lend Daneil the use of one to get the process started... I don't know if our brewer has been tending her shop or not lately", glancing to Chance with a raised brow.

Franziskus Ninetails nods "Well, if you hear of a brewer, let me know, please"

Will nods to him, "I will... perhaps we might go and see the matter with these others or see what is developing with it"

Chance pulls the wagon to the stall and begins to carefull load the bottles, stuffing hay between them to prevent breakage.

Franziskus Ninetails: "Well, it's getting dark. We should take our way back. Be well and safe paths, Will"

Will smiles warmly, "Safe paths to you and yours Franzi"

Chance: "Safe paths, master!"

Franziskus Ninetails nods to Chance with a smile and secretely tosses him a a cherry candy on his the wagon as he passes by.

River "Safe paths, master", he river says softly, and hurries after his master, pulling the wagon behind him.

Chance grins and snatches the candy up "Thank you!"

Franziskus Ninetails helps his boy lifting the whole cart into the boat, then tosses some copper bits to the ferryman to bring them quickly over to the tropics.

River: "Thank you, my master. We had a good day, my master"

[Taking the ferry back to the tropics]

Our House

2011-09-06T15:38:00.000+01:00

So, it's time to show some pictures of our house. The last weeks been so busy again. I don't have the time to continue with all my planned projects for my store. And that although the new possibility of making megaprims makes my heart bounce!

Well, the building of the house and furnishing it (not ready yet) kept me busy. And after that was done, I got busy with the "suggestions for the NLS pricing." And the growing amount of Meeroos (I think it's about 40 now or more...) keeps us busy too. But things are calming down now and we're looking forward to RP again.

So, here's our house - a mix of roman "Villa Rustica" and mexican hacienda with a touch of Gor:

My Office

View to the atrium

View from the ocean

View from the docks

Steps to my office

the court yard

the cattle

view into the court yard

the kitchen

court yard

dining area

atrium

bedroom with bath

terrace

Warning 2

2011-09-06T13:38:00.002+01:00

The previous post

was

totally

boring

and of

no interest at all

for anybody

who isn't involved

with the NLS.

(And prolly for half of those who ARE also)

some suggestions about the NLS pricing and economy

2011-09-06T13:37:00.000+01:00

                                     1 Introduction
                                    =========

Talking about a reasonable pricing of NLS goods is rather difficult. One reason for this is, that the NLS currency doesn't follow the BTB-currency. Originally in Gor there are Copper Tarsk Bits, Copper Tarsks, Silver Tarsks, Gold Tarns and Double Gold Tarns.

8 Copper Tarsk bits = 1 Copper Tarsk
100 Copper Tarsk = 1 Silver Tarsk
10 Silver Tarsk = 1 Gold Tarn
2 Gold Tarn = 1 double Gold Tarn

It's mentioned in the books that you'd get a good meal and drinks in a taverne for about 3-5 Copper Tarsks. Compared to nowadays Earth prices that would be in a middle-class diner something between 10-20 U$ for a meal including drinks.

Now the NLS uses another pricing/relation:

100 Copper Tarsk bits ("Tarnstücke" TS) = 1 Copper Tarsks ("Kupfertarsk" KT)
100 Copper Tarsks = 1 Silver Tarsk (ST)
100 Silver Tarsk = 1 Gold Tarn

The question is: How to relate this to a currency on earth like the U$, to get an idea of what would be worth what?

With this question we meet another problem: John Norman as usual wasn't consequent and logical. Like the price for a several day sea-passage would be the same (1 Silver Tarsk) as the price for the ferry to cross the Laurius River. And two boys in Tor get just for dragging in customers to a taverne 1 Copper Tarsk, while in another book it is mentioned, that a low caste worker earns maybe 1-3 copper tarsks per day. And you pay for a coin girl only a copper bit. - So, the boys earn for 1 customer 1 copper tarsk, can go and fuck 8-10 coin girls, which come back to their Master with maybe 1-2 copper tarsks per day, who pays then about 5 copper tarks to feed them, not talking of the price he might have paid for the purchase? - One time he mentions you'd get as much paga as you can drink PLUS the all inclusive "service" of the paga slave for 1 Copper Tarsk, another time he throws a whole Silver Tarsk (100 times more!) on the counter of a taverne just for a bottle of paga. So, John Normal is just not logical and not a big help.

With these problems - the difference between NLS / BTB currency and the inconsequence of John Norman's novels - best would be to just look how common NLS goods are, the effort to harvest or to prdouce them, the region where it grows etc.

                                    2.1 Raw-Materials (Intro)
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For the raw-materials you always have to consider WHERE they'd grow and WHO would harvest them. The prices are for traders and producers. A producer sells to a trader, a trader sells it on the market or to bakers, tavernkeepers, blacksmiths etc. Those work on it and sell it to the customer. Each of them wants to make profit of course. However a baker could as well buy a raw material directly from the producer. If you RP it, that's fine... But always keep in mind: The NLS is there to encourage and enhance your RP possibilities; it's not meant to cheat.

So, the prices are suggestions. It always depends who's selling to whom and in what amounts.

Example Blackwine-Beans: A farmer in the tropics grows Black Wine Beans. He sells a sack with 100 beans to a trader. Because of the high amount (especially after a lot of fun haggling RP) he'd sell it for 10 TS per bean. And the trader would travel and sell it elsewhere. --- Now if the farmer goes to the market himself (RP) and sells his beans there single, he might get up to 20 TS per bean. If he travels north (although it won't be realistic, that he does so), he could sell them for even more.

Now lets follow this example: The trader paid 10 KT (100 x 10 TS) for it. He pays a miller/grindner 2 KT for grinding it to pouder. 2 beans = 1 pouder. So he gets back 50 sacks of pouder. He travels north (RP!!!) to sell the pouder for 80 TS per sack. So he'll get 40 KT. His profit would be 28 KT.

Of course as it is SL the farmer could grow it, grind it himself, quickly teleport to the north, sell it there for 20 TS per sack of pouder and makes bigger profit. Or even worse: You are a slave in the north and grow black wine in your backyard, offering it for free right everywhere.
But is that really what you want? You defraud yourself and others of the chance of much fun-RP.

So, following comes a list with raw-materials and a picture with price-suggestions. They are only suggestions... recommendations... depending on the amount, the situation, the region, the HAGGLING etc. In the list for better overview green background shows, where's a product growing, red where not.

                                      2.2 Raw-Materials listed
                                     ===============
Beans & Leaves:
->Baziteeblaetter (Bazitea-Leaves): Would normally grow in the region of Bazi. A tropical plant. Strangely in the NLS it is NOT tropical, but moderate. Until this isn't changed, unfortunately it would have to be more expensive in the tropes, subpolar and desert.
->Cacaobean: Only grows in tropical regions. Can be sold as bean or as ->Cacaopowder
->Blackwinebohne (Blackwine Beans): BTB only available in Thentis and valuable as gold. A bowl of blackwine would cost according to the books a Silver Tarn. However the NLS doesn't regard this, so it's available in all tropical regions. Should be expensive in other regions. ->Blackwine Pulver

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Fire:

->Boskdung: Prolly wouldn't be sold in his pure form (although some people can make money even with shit..), so here's only listed the DRIED Version ->Trockener Boskdung. Other then Woodlogs you have double work: 1. Collecting it, 2. Dry it.
->Holzscheite (woodlogs): If not available publicly, then woodmakers could sell them for about 1-2 TS. They are mentioned in the books, cutting wood in the forests, carrying them to the cities. In the desert and in some regions (high mountains, high north etc.) it could be even up to 5 TS per log. However in the desert -> Boskdung would be more common for making fire.

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Animals:

->Boskkadaver (Bosk Corpse)
->toter Fisch (Fish)
->Verr
->Vulo
->Tabuk
->Tarsk

It is difficult to say something about pricing here. Normally it would be hunters, farmers or butchers only who hunt or slaughter those animals. In SL however almost everyone can quickly kill an animal standing in the backyard. A price-suggestion makes only sense, if the SIM owner is insightful enough to restrict the production of these animals to single people like farmers, butchers, hunters... and if the residents are reasonable enough to accept this and RP with it.
More intersting for trade are the random products like:

->Tabukhorn
->Wolle (Wool)
->Leder (Leather)

As the north is supposed to be rich in animals (big herds of tabuk moving North in summer etc) those might be especially trading-products for the Northern people.

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Corn, Fruits & Vegies:

All these should be restricted to farmers who sell it to traders or brewers or directly on the market.

->Dattel (Dates): A desert product. In the books there it's even used as currency. So very common in the desert, more expensive as farer away from the desert.
->Ka-la-na Trauben (Ka-la-na Grapes)
->Karotte (Carots)
->Kuerbis (Pumpkin) Growing moderate and tropical.
->Larma
->Schwarze Olive (Olive): Getting 5 of it by cutting ->Olivenzweig
->Rambeere (Ramberry)
->Rence
->Sa-Tarna Korn
->Sul
->Torian Cherry
->Tospit
->Zuckerrohr

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Flowers:

The flowers used by Healers for their pouders. Propably should be collected or grown and harvested by Healers only or by "herb-women" and sold to physicians. And therefore should be considered rarer than other fruits, corn or vegetables.

->Lavinia Flowers
->Maringold
->Sunflower Leaves
->Sip Wurzel (Sip Root)
->Teslik Pflanze (Teslik Plant)

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Animal Products:

Farmers products. Depending on your region (more rural or a city?) cheap to little expensive.

->Honig (Honey): Another problem where the NLS doesn't follow the books. The drink of the Northmen is ->Mead. Mead is made of honey! So you'd expect honey a product of the North, but it isn't. It's restricted to moderate and tropical regions. Hopefully as with ->Baziteeblätter this might change one day. Following the system to sell products more expensive the farer away it is from the production place, it would have to be expensive in the north. But to keep the production of ->Mead there cheaper, we recommend to offer it cheap in the northern countries.
->Milchschale (Milkbowl): ->Butter ->Cheese
->Vulo Ei (Vulo Egg)

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Mining Products:

Those are mainly in the desert. It's considered that it is hard to gather by slaves in the mines (and - as with all the other products - not to just be picked up by EVERYONE on the sidewalks)

->Metallerz (Iron Ore) ->Eisenbarren (Iron bar)
->Salzkorn (Salt rock) ->Salzfass

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Others:

->Wasserschale (Waterbowl)
In most regions Water would be free, just fetched from a well. So the price would be 0 TS. However in desert regions there could be watertraders (like they are mentioned in the books), selling bowls for maybe 1-5 TS.

2.3 First Generation
============

Let's call those products which are made from raw material "First Generation". Some of it can be used directly, others are the foundation for other products or use.

Following our pattern, the price for a first Generation product is put together from the min.-max. price of the raw materials PLUS the profit for the effort to use the fusionators.

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Pouders, Grinding

To produce pouders from products normally would be work of grindners and millers, which would get paid for their service. Unfortunately not many people want to RP those professions/castes. The medical pouders would be done by Healers, but could also be assumed as trading-product to be sold to Healers. - So the work would mostly be done by slaves.

->Blackwine Pulver 2x ->Blackwine Beans
->Cacaopowder Grinding 2x ->Cacaobeans

->Lavinia Flowers Pulver 1x ->Lavinia Flower
->Maringold Pulver 1x ->Maringold
->Sunflower pouder 1x ->Sunflowerblaetter

->Mehl (Flour) 5x ->Sa-Tarna Korn
->Salzfass (Salt) 2x ->Salzkorn
->Zuckerfass (Sugar) 2x ->Zuckerrohr

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Alcoholic Drinks

Would be the work of a brewer. Same problem here: Not enough brewers available... - However it's a difference, if it is sold on the market by a trader or the price in a tavern. Here are listed prices for the market. Under "Tavern, Bakers, Meals & Co" you will find suggestions for the products in taverns, which will be 10-20 TS more then on the market.

->Ka-la-na Kelch (Ka-la-na Goblet) 5x ->Ka-la-na Traube
->Mead 5x ->Honig + 3x ->Wasserschale
->Paga (Sa-Tarna Paga) 5x ->Sa-tarna Korn + 2x ->Wasserschale
->Rence Beer 5x ->Rence + 3x ->Wasserschale
->Sul-Paga 2x ->Sul + 1x ->Wasserschale

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Other Products

->Butter 5x ->Milchschale
->Käselaib (Cheesewheel) 15x ->Milchschale (gives out FOUR pieces of cheese)

->Eisenbarren (Iron Bars) 2x ->Metallerz

->Spiritus (Spirit) 5x ->Sul + 1x ->Wasserschale

2.4 Taverne, Bakers, Meals & Co
=====================

Additionally to certain products "First Generation" from the market (-> Alcoholic Drinks) there will be some products which would not be offered on a market, but ONLY in a tavern or at the bakery, the candymaker, the butcher etc.
It is to consider, that the production results in several pieces of a good or 1 resulting product gives out several pieces, like making candy results in 10 candies, or ONE jug of black wine gives out FOUR bowls of black wine. Therefor we added in the list a "divisor". [Not sure if the divisor is always right. I got different information about it. But thanks to everyone who helped to get the list together!]

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Alcoholic Drinks:

The prices in a taverne would be of course higher than on the market. The prices you pay in a restaurant are higher than in a supermarket. To follow the pattern we list again those products from the "First Generation" which would be available also in a tavern + 10 TS for the profit of the tavernkeeper.

->Ka-la-na Kelch (Ka-la-na Goblet)
->Mead
->Paga (Sa-Tarna Paga)
->Rence Beer
->Sul-Paga

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Non-Alcoholic Drinks:

Cherrysaft 6x ->Torian Cherry = 3 juices
Larmasaft 6x ->Larma = 3 juices
Tospitsaft 6x ->Tospit = 3 Juices
Bazitee Kanne (Blackteajug) 2x ->Baziteeblätter +3x ->Wasserschale = 4 Bowls
Blackwine Kanne / Coffeejug 3x ->Blackwinepulver + 3x ->Wasserschale = 4 Bowls
Chocolatemilch (Chocolate milk) 2x ->Michschale + 1x ->Cacaopulver = 4 Bowls

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Roasts:

(The suggestions for the TAVERN(!)-prices of these goods provided really ROLEPLAYING it as tavern-keeper, butcher or their slaves.)

->Boskfleisch (Boskmeat) 1x ->Boskkadaver => 4 Pieces
->Tabukbraten (tabuk roast) 1x ->Tabukkadaver => 3 Pieces
->Tarskbraten (tarsk/pork) 1x ->Tarskkadaver =>
->Verrschenkel (Verr limb) 1x ->Verr roh =>
->Vuloschenkel (Chicken leg) 1x ->Vulo roh => 1 Vuloschenkel
->Fischfilet (Fish Filet) 1x ->Toter Fisch => 1 Fischfilet

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Sweets for the Sweet (bakers, candymakers)

(For the list added the ingredients + 20 TS for the preparation)

->Cherry Candy 2x ->Honig + 1x ->Zuckerfass + 5x ->Torian Cherry =>10 Cherry Candy
->Rambeer Candy 2x ->Honig + 1x ->Zuckerfass + 5x ->Rambeere =>10 Rambeerecandy

->Cherrykuchen (Cherry pie) 1x ->Zuckerfass + 3x ->Torian Cherry + 1x ->Butter + 5x ->Milchschale + 2x ->Mehl + 2x ->Vulo Ei => 4 Cherrykuchenstücke
->Larmakuchen (Larmapie) 1x ->Zuckerfass + 3x ->Larma + 2x ->Butter + 5x ->Milchschale + 2x ->Mehl + 2x ->Vulo Eier => 1 ->Larmakuchenstück
->Rambeerpie (Ramberry Pie) 1x ->Zuckerfass + 3x ->Rambeeren + 1x ->Butter + 5x ->Milchschale + 2x ->Mehl + 2x ->Vulo Eier => 4 Rambeerkuchenstücke

->Sa-tarna Brot (Bread) 2x ->Mehl + 2x ->Wasserschale + 1x ->Salzfass
->Schokoladenkeks (Chocolate Cookie) 1x ->Zuckerfass + 1x ->Butter + 5x ->Milchschale + 2x ->Mehl + 2x ->Vulo Ei + 2x ->Cocaopulver => 10 Schokoladenkekse

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Other:

(simple to produce, so only added 10 TS to the price of the single ingredients)

->Kuerbissuppe (Pumpkin Soup) 1x ->Kuerbis + 2x ->Wasserschale + 1x ->Salzfass
->Karotteneintopf (Carrot Stew) 3x ->Karotte + 3x ->Sul + 2x ->Wasserschale + 1x ->Salzfass => 2 bowls Karotteneintopf
->Sklavenbrei (Mash) 3x ->Sa-tarna Korn + 3x ->Milchschale
->Sulsuppe (Sul soup) 3x ->Sul + 2x ->Wasserschale + 1x ->Salzfass => 2 Sulsuppe

->Vulo Spiegelei (Fried Egg) 3x ->Vulo Ei

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Wouldn't it be interesting as tavern-keeper (or his slave) to put together a nice menu? Something like "Pumpkin Soup followed by Tarsk roast with sul and carrots and bread. Followed by cheese and fruits. With a goblet of ka-la-na wine. Today only 4 KT!"

Example #1: A low caste man eats in a middle-class taverne in a moderate region (average prices)

1 Sul Soup                           150/2       = 75
1 Piece of Bread                  120/6    = 20
1 Piece of Cheese              120/4    = 30
1 Bowl of Water                                         0
1 Rence Beer                                           85
1 Bosk Steak                          300/4   = 75
1 Sul                                                        15
1 Piece of Ramberry Pie        440/4    = 110
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                                                           410 TS

That's 4 Copper Tarsks, 10 Copper Bits. Which is about the prices mentioned in the books (to get a dinner in a taverne for between 3 and 5 Copper Tarsks).

2.5 TOOLS
=======

The Blacksmith is one of the most important Castes in the NLS, as he makes the tools that help others to have better success with harvesting and production.
For pricing we take the single ingredients + the profit for the blacksmith for his effort. This profit depends on the outcome, as there are 3 different classes for each tool.

class 1 = +20 TS
class 2 = +40 TS
class 3 = +60 TS

->Axe 1x ->Holzscheit + 2x->Eisenbarren
->Fruitpicker 2x ->Wolle + 2x ->Holzscheit + 1x ->Eisenbarren
->Hornshovel 1x ->Holzscheit + 1x ->Tabukhorn
->Pickaxe 1x ->Holzscheit + 2x ->Eisenbarren
->Scissors 1x ->Eisenbarren
->Scythe 3x->Holzscheit + 2x ->Eisenbarren + 1x ->Leder
->Shovel 1x ->Holzscheit + 1x ->Eisenbarren
->Smoker 1x ->Holzscheit + 2x ->Leder +2x->Eisenbarren

2.6 HEALERS
=========

The Healer is another important Caste in the NLS. They can make diagnosis and they prepare the medicine (which should be ONLY available from Healers or Shamanes). Their income as High Caste is supposed to be high, their service supposed to be expensive, and also the medicine. On the other side not too high, so that also a low caste RPer can afford their service.

For the preparation of their medicine we calculated 1 KT (=100 TS), as they also need (expensive) spirit for their destilleries.

Of course they would also charge for their service like slave-exams, shots with the serum etc. We recommend something between 1-3 KT (100-300 TS).

->Lavinia Flowers Saft 4x ->Lavinia Flowers Pulver
->Maringold Saft 4x ->Maringold Pulver
->Sunflower Leaves Saft 4x ->Sunflower Pulver
->Sklavenwein (Slavewine) 2x->Sip Wurzel + 2x ->Wasserschale
->Brutwein (Breeding Wine) 2x ->Teslik-Pflanze + 2x ->Wasserschale + 1x ->Zuckerfass

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So, if you are interested in a reasonable and "realistic" use of the NLS, feel free to use these lists as a little guidance.

And always keep in mind:
It's not Monopoly! You do NOT have to prove how fast and quick you can fill your stocks or how much money you can earn or how "multitalented" you are. It's not a competition - it's a TOGETHER! And the true winners are NOT those who camp their AV on spawners or fusionators, but those who roleplay, haggle, trade, interact and have fun!

And always feel free to join our group "NLS - Gold knows no Caste"

Warning

2011-09-06T13:00:00.000+01:00

The next post

will be

totally

boring

and of

no interest at all

for anybody

who isn't involved

with the NLS.

(And prolly for half of those who ARE also)

Copycats

2011-08-29T10:46:00.000+01:00

So, when someone asks you "Where did you get this and that texture?" and you tell him.... When he asks you "How did you do this and how did you make that? I tried and failed. What am I doing wrong???" And you tell him.... Then you should get suspicious and don't wonder, if one day you will find this:

Forgery

Original

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

so we moved

2011-08-25T14:30:00.000+01:00

So, the decision was made. After some more insultations and a question of loyalty we finally packed our stuff and left Kalana Fjord. Not much to say about that anymore...

However was busy the last days building our new house which became fabulous, I think. Love it! Too bad, that it took so much time... as my lil moonbeam Endy has holidays too (River still is away till next week) and we thought we would have time for private RP and cuddles. :-(

Well, more to come soon. At the moment a bit in a hurry....

Time to move on?

2011-08-18T16:12:00.000+01:00

I've bit my tongue for so long, always hoped for things getting better, but they don't. So now I have to get rid of some things...

We are not too happy in Kalana Fjord. So many people are arrogant, rude, inpolite. - My boys and me been away for a long time as I was building Corcyrus. That's true. But one of the reasons were, that since the junction of Kalana Fjord West and East, we were somehow pushed to an outsider-position.

Let's say it clearly: The owner of the neighbor-SIM and his men and slaves are an arrogant, ignorant, rude and inpolite bunch! They never tried to include us in their RP, and when we started a RP and tried to include them, then we were ignored.

It's strange, cause every SIM me and my boys visited, welcomed us nicely, appreciated our RP and would be happy if we would join them. So, why are we treated like scum by people I never had met before? I don't know.

Well, we took it for a while, busy with our own RP and stuff. This week we gave it another try. Offered RP by buying drinks as we needed it for a trade (see River's blog about that). Again we been ignored while so many people from other SIMs asked "Come to us! We trade with you! Please come!".

But the "highlight" been two days ago, when Endy and me were RPing making Kalana Wine (as none of "them" didn't want to trade it) and RPing with the blacksmith about an incident (another RP about a certain candy-thief, that was more or less planned OOC and should have continued...) at the docks... and right in the middle of that, said SIM-owner and his men came, dragged the blacksmith away from us without a greeting and left us standing there buffled. I. Am. Pissed!

Well, the ironic thing is: As we went home... totally upset... I met a woman from the village at the docks... and - surprise! surprise! - she complained IC too about the ignorant males in the village, slaves as well as Free. So at least it seems we are not the only ones who are ignored and bullied.

I don't think we can expect an apology for the (OOC!)-rudeness of these persons. And I don't think their manners will change. So, we are considering what to do at the moment. Just stick to our place, doing our own thing/RP, ignoring them as they ignore us? Or move on, as there are plenty of SIMs that would appreciate our RP and welcome us happily in their middle?

Well, my lil sunshine River is on travels (vacation) now anyways; so we will wait until he's back. I know, he will say "Wherever you go, we will follow!", but I don't want him to return to an abandonned home.

FYI

2011-08-17T20:41:00.000+01:00

Just for the information for those who want to show HOW MUCH Gorean they are by using 'special' words and language:

"Heilsa" is icelandic and never mentioned in the book.

And keep your "talk like a pirate" for the talk-like-a-pirate-day. Nobody ever talked like this in the books.

'nough said

Chirp

2011-08-17T16:36:00.000+01:00

19 Meeroos now + 1 as pet in the beachhouse + 9 nests. As I came today to the store, they were all sleeping in one BIG bundle. For the pic I had to move them without waking them. Gosh! They'r so cute! Maybe we're lucky and one day will get one by coincidence with a special coat? But not forcing it. I think the only one who really earns money with those lil carpet crawlers, is the creator who sells also the food.

I named mine after "Our Gang" (lil rascals): Alfalfa, Farina, Darla, Sunshine Sammy, Deborah... Endy named his in alphabetical order. And River his all with "J".

Annon, the Gate

2011-08-17T16:11:00.001+01:00

Last week I visited with my lil moonbeam Endy...

... a SIM-cluster called Selidor Arcipelagus. It's a cluster of little islands. ...

... Really nice and beautiful and worth a visit...

Don't have the landmark by hand, just search for "Annon, the Gate".

textures, textures, textures

2011-08-17T15:53:00.000+01:00

I love my Kinex-Organizer! Although I'm busy now for day sorting my textures. I loaded them all into categories and different organizers - one of my photoalbum, one for sculptmaps (cool thing can show sculpties too!), one for my sets and one (the biggest there on the right with endless categories...) for all my other textures. Then deleted them all from my inventory and - Yay! - inventory got down from 35.000 to about 16.500!

Now just checking all the categories which will take another few days...

update update update

2011-08-08T16:56:00.004+01:00

Not posted for another week, so it's time for some updates....

* From here to eternity *

I almost finished sorting my inventory. Except... textures... which will be another 20.000 to sort.

Sorting out my poseballs I found this one...

.... and set it out on our beach. Love it! Reminds me of the movie "From here to eternity".

Would have liked to work on this pic a bit, but don't have the time for it.

* Firestorm *

Struggling with the next generation of Phoenix-viewer which is called Firestorm. I don't like it much. Though it seems to be more stable, it also seems much slower in rezzing textures and I DO NOT FIND ANYTHING! *growls*

* Savage Tales *

Snake spent some time with his tribe-brothers Giani and Gim. After they had to leave Tidra and followed the "guardians" (Franzi & co...) to the cold north, they first tried to settle down in a cave in Kalana Fjord. But they were not welcome there, so they moved on. Now they are in the neighbor-SIM where - after some confusing and misunderstandings in the beginning - they were welcomed warmly. They found a nice little cave, neighboring a kur ("talking beast" as they call it), busy with hunting, eating and trading a lot.

* Nutri Life System *

We're giving up on the NLS! Just today another market opened. Offering things they "harvest". Black wine beans, bazi tea, salt... Yes, according to the books they grow so much in the cold north... Not!

It just doesn't make sense to RP a trader, travelling all over Gor to buy cheap here, sell expensive there, when people can just collect the stuff along the boardwalks wherever they are and then offer it all for free.

So I will pull down our marketstalls and use it from now on only for our private needs like cooking, eating and drinking. No trading anymore.

The thought of the system isn't bad. But people are people. They all want to be independent and nobody really WANTS to RP with the goods in a REASONABLE way. It would need better control. But the creator it seems is only interested in making money and doesn't care any further about it.

We created a group to support a more reasonable use of the system, but I don't think it's worth to waste time, energy and nerves.

* The Shop *

I changed the design of my shop. I liked it very much before, but as I mostly sell Gorean houses and stuff, I made it more appropriate now. I wished I could drag more customers in... What's the nicest built worth, if people don't see it?

* The Meeroo-invasion *

It all started with Mr. Roo.... And now we got.. I think 12 13 1415161718 meeroos running around!

Yeah, they are cute, but somehow they remind me of the "tribbles" in Star Trek. I think they make even the same chirping sounds. :-)

Well, I got two for myself. Babies from my boys' ~~tribbles~~ meeroos. But really.. enough is enough! All following offspring is going to be sold. Period.

But hell, they are really cute, aren't they?

***

Hm, I think that's it for today. Hope I didn't forget any news. I really should get used to write the news every day...

meeting the kur

2011-08-01T11:17:00.000+01:00

My boy Endy started to post the beginning of the RP last week. We were about to carry cherries to trade them with the neighbor-SIM, as a kur and his sleen were surprising us. The first part of the RPyou find on Endy's blog.

I don't have the time to edit it into a story-form, so I just took off the timestamps etc.:

......

The Sleen chases the slave back up the steps with a hiss, then rolls over keeping one eye on the stairs and a tongue flicking out to test the air.. before flopping over for a half sleep.

River looks down to the sleen, trying to decide if its a boy sleen or a girl. Endy whispers to his brother "Maybe it is a female, we could catch it and breed it with Fluffy" [Fluffy = our guarding sleen]. River giggles at the thought of Fluffy getting it on.

The sleen farts but keeps a sly eye to the steps, it was good at waiting.

Endy smiles: "If we got Fluffy sexed up, maybe he would stop attacking me?"

Franziskus looks down at the sleen laying on it's side as he sees the commander. He cries out "Watch out, Matt!!!"

Endy: "Jarl, Run!"

Matteus: "Run?"

Endy: "RUN!!!"

Matteus: "Run from the sleeping sleen? I'm going to check on the new renters. Yell at me if you need me."

Franziskus whispers "As you are close to it, can you see if it's male or female, Matt?"

The sleen turns it's beady eye to the male, a little test of the air a grumpy look on it's face. Then paces the bottom of the steps... oh yes, it was sleek, some said cute, but they didn't stay alive to spread that story.

Franziskus' grip at the bow gets even tighter as he sees a kur coming around the corner in addition to the sleen. A very ungorean scream of suprise escaping his lips. "Aah!"

The kur gives a low growl, hauling on the chain to drag the sleen up the steps

Endy raises his bow, the furry beast in front of him, and some very painful memories making the bow very tempting....

The kur speaking in Kur: "mughato' rutlh"

The sleen waited like a rabbid dog straining on said chain with a hiss.

The kur climbed the stairs to the house and ducks under the bell trying not to brain himself, his hand firmly gripped around the leash of the sleen

The sleen snuffles closer to the Jarl and truns to snarl at what it would hunt the Thralls.

Franziskus swallows and steps back, his arrow aiming at the kur... at the sleen... at the kur again... at the sleen... He tries to firm his voice "Stay where you are, beast... and... beast!" - Still not sure, which of both had spoken.

The kur slaps the sleen across the top of his head, giving a low growl. Then speaks in kur "rutlh va"

The sleen brought it's tail around herding the thrall over to where it would be seen.

Endy sheaves the bow reluctenly and with his Master next to him whsipers "This is... the Lord to whom you gave the sunflower potion, my Master" chosing his words carefully knowing that Kur hearing is very good.

River holds his bow tightly in his hand even though he was shaking.

Franziskus chases his boys behind him, standing between them and the two beasts.

The sleen rolled over on it's side to play dead ..a beady eye focused.

The kur: "I come to give you thanks, although, it seemed your messenger was reluctant to hand the cure over". He elans down giving the sleen a quick rub along its belly before giving another command.

Franziskus tilts his head a bit to his boy's whisper, but his eyes still firmly at the kur. "Ah, the one that thanked with beating you, mine?"

Endy bites his tongue to prevent himself reminding the Kur that he was to interested chasing slave girls to give Endy a chance to hand over the potion and simply remains quiet.

River involentarily steps back as the kur speaks.

The sleen moves it's sleek muscles to stand and a hissss slipping over it's large fangs as the tail once flips to herd the thralls and guard it's Master.

The kur: "I have come to ask you to travel down to the south lands, to a place called Sardar"

Franziskus watches the kur carefully, the breath from the beast blowing in his face. He wrinkles his nose a bit, but keeps his pokerface. Reluctantly he sheathes his bow as he heard the kur - though sometimes obviously temperamental - won't harm humans.

The kur continued: "...to find out what you can of the paths and defenes leading to the lair of the ones known as priest kings."

River watches as his master sheathes his bow but keeps his in his grip not trusting the beast with the safety of his master.

Franziskus frowns at the kur's words "Travel south? Hmmm..... been there many moons ago.... a PKs nest, but it was abandonned, I think"

Endy nods and shudders a little remembering his fear in violating the priest kings hold sanctuary.

The kur unimpressed answered: "Everyone I ask, say the preist kings dwell in the sardar mountains. I wish to find out if this is true and if so, if there are any secure paths leading into their lair."

The sleen lets it's large head twist in a violent struggle from side to side. It's tail pulsing ((oops)) sending up little clowds of dust.

Franziskus tilts his head a bit to the side in his typical manner "Do you mean.... you want to come and see yourself?" His eyebrows snap up "All I know, the kurii avoid water!?" - And with a look at the sleen "Don't know about sleens..... except seasleens of course."

Said sleen sniffs butt and trys not to flick it's tongue out.

Endy gulps nerviously not liking the situation, his brother fearing Kur, and he.... having become fearful of Fluffy, the housesleen

River puts up his bow, eventually taking his lead from his master and brother, but his fear of the kur still not leaving him. He stands as still as he can hoping the beast doesn't see him or even worse recognise him.

The kur: "We have some allies to the east of the sardar, but their kind aren't welcome there, they are the red savages, have you had contact with them?"

That moment Eric, the blacksmith, climbed up the stairs. "Tal, all", he said before he realizes the situation and his hand reaches for his sword at the sight of the kur.

Franziskus tilts his head to the other side and was just about to continue talking as he sees the blacksmith coming up the steps unsuspectingly.

The sleen would be of no danger unless the Master order it,with a flick of a wrist on chain.

The kur spins around as he hears a voice behind him. "Greetings, human". He lets out the leash a little, letting his sleen examine the newcommer.

Eric's hand tighten around his swords hilt, his previous experiences with kurii weren't that helpfull.

Franzi slowly gestures to the blacksmith to calm and not threaten the kur.

The sleen starts to snuffle in the males cloak, a little flick of a long tongue and wonder if that was food in his pocket.

The kur gives the chain a tug, calling the sleen back to his side. He speaks in kur "va uSgheb"

The blacksmith looks to Franzi and shrugs, then moves his hand away from the hilt.

The sleen's head snaps round as it's pulled to heel, with one hiss over it's shoulder.

The kur: "If you are heading down south, I will have some furs and horns to trade with you for herbs and spices rare to these parts."

The sleen pushes a sleek muzzle into the males leg... pinning him with it's weight to the wall as the Master talks.. it would hiss a warning. Then it pushes it's large head over pushing the thralls back.

Franzi pricks his ears as he hears furs and horn "Hmmm, I think I'd have someone who'd need tabukhorn and leather...."

Eric knows Franzi means him. He shrugs.

River still shook up from where Fluffy attacked him, jumps backwards.

Endy whimpers as the sleen pushes at him, trying to resist the temptation to draw his bow.

Franziskus "But.... I just came back from a long journey. I didn't plan to go for another so early...". He pokes his second boy to step behind him.... at his LEFT shoulder as he should always be. [Note: In Gor slaves should stand behind the left shoulder of their Master, so their Master's sword-arm isn't blocked]

The sleen was a truely sly beast at the best of times, so pushed it's muzzle further into the males keeping them together. In line of sight of the Master.

Endy spots his master's motions, and quickly moves, glad to be away from the sleen.

Franzi's eyes wander for a short moment, searching a way for the blacksmith around the kur, but doesn't find any. On the other side... it might be better to have the kur and the sleen surrounded... just in case. He glares back at the kur before he speaks: "So... as I told you: The place was lost and empty the last time we were there."

The sleen moved with sleek but sure purpose, it's tail lashing out.

Franziskus: "If you want to see it with your own eyes, I will soon get another ship ready... for a good amount of horn and leather. But alone? I don't know what I should find what I didn't find the last time I been there?"

The kur answered "All I have asked and questioned all said, the priest kings have their lair at Sardar, but these men of the north, know little more, and the few southern traders, only know the fair around there"

The sleen backs up pushing a tail into the male behind, one movement and the sleen would spin. It would let the Master talk in peace but would also allow the beast to gut him if he moved.

The kur continued "All I ask is that you verify that it is either empty or not, but every Kur that has attempted to near there has ceased to return which gives some substance to the tales they are there."

River steps back so not to impeed his master's arm if it is needed.

Eric had forged his sword for kurii, he wasn't scared of the sleen... it was the kur that had him worried.

Franziskus scratches his head, thinking... He looks to the harbor where his ship anchors. "Hmmmmmmm..... my seamen are tired from the last travel. We been away for 8 hands. I have to grant them at least a hand break before we break up for another travel. And I guess I will have to hire some warriors too, as it is a long and dangerous passage. Sooooo.... you have to offer a lot... lot... very much... tabuk horn and leather"

Kur: "I could give you 30 horns and 30 hides of leather to take to trade down south. - All I wish is to verify that the preist kings are there, but this other empty next interests me, you say its deserted?"

Franziskus nods "Aye, the other one was empty. However... a lot of...." - He looks at the blacksmith for a short moment, then lowers his voice "... errrrr..... instruments were left there... you know, what I mean... errrr.... magik!" - Avoids to mention the technical instruments in the presence of a Gorean.

The sleen flicks it's tail up the front of the male behind it, it would push slightly but as yet meant no harm.

Franziskus Ninetails rolls his eyes to the sky doing the math quickly "Hmmmm.... 50 horns and 50 leather... and only if you come with us to see with your own eyes! --- Did I mention it was dangerous and I have to PAY warriors?"

Eric really shouldn't be a stranger to that, he was after all kidnapped by kurii but then his memory of that had been whiped.

Franziskus - if he wouldn't know better would think the kur looks a bit pale around his nose... snout.

The kur grumps, turns his head to the left, opens his mouth as gis stomack spasms, shooting his last meal across the wall. He growls, wiping his arm across his mouth cleaning the drips into his fur knowing his pet will be grooming him later.

Franziskus Ninetails watches the blacksmith from the corner of his eyes, hoping he stays calm in the presence of the beasts. He shortly nods to him, then jumps as the kur pukes over the wall. "Aah!" [I just love that Homer Simpson scream or whatever it is!]

River clamps his hand over his mouth and gulps as his stomach turns over.

The kur mutters something unintelligible through his translator: " Bondsmaids, ..gensdsd.. fish.. sqrkk.. bzzt .. rancid... crckkl"

Franziskus Ninetails eeeechs and grimaces for a moment at the mess, not daring to look at the remains of the last meal of the kur. He looks at his first boy who's turning pale and then green in his face "You don't feel well, mine? Maybe... you should lay down?". He ruffles his first boy's hair and nods with his head towards the house. ((River needs to go to bed)) Then turns to his other boy "Go and get a bucket...." - He shortly looks at the mess and corrects: "... two... three buckets with water, mine!"

River nods desperate to get inside so not to embarrasse his master in public.

Endy looks with distaste and the mess on the roof of their trade hall "Yes, my Master"

The kur reaches down rubbing the sleens head.

River runs into the house having been dismissed and out through the back door, vomiting violently.

The sleen gives what would almost be called a grin at the rub, before going back to guarding the rough male by the steps.

Endy takes a bucket from the kitchen and begins filling it from the pump.

Franziskus Ninetails turns with a worried look to the kur: "Are you feeling sick or was that just the thought of traveling over waters?"

The kur: "You talk about taking me with you, and then mention hiring warriors... do you not know, we kur are the equal to a hand of warriors?"

Endy cautiously steps around the Kur and sloshes the water at the puke, then hurries back to the pump to refill it.

Eric sighs as he had feared as much and he wasn't even a warrior, his sword would not do. He would need to ask Matteus for help.

Endy sloshes another bucket of water at the puke, glad the slimy substance is finally moving.

Franziskus Ninetails nods "Aye... so if you come with us.... then 40 horns and 40 leathers will be fine!" - He looks for a moment at the blacksmith, if this will do for a while in the smithery.

The kur: "40, as long as we leave within 30 days"

Endy moves closer to the steps for one final slosh to wash the puke into the docks, accidently pouring a large amount on the sleens head as he does so, and quickly backs off.

The sleen shakes it's head letting the water drip and runs after the thrall.

Franziskus Ninetails nods "Deal!", and was about to stretch his hand out for a Gorean handshake to seal the contract, but quickly retracts his hand again, as a handshake with a kur prolly would cost his arm.

The blacksmith turned around to leave "Safe paths, all"

Franziskus Ninetails: "And as I said - We could sail next hand."

Endy backs away further from the sleen holding the bucket out in a threatening manner to suggest to it that it may be hit by the bucket if it does not back off.

The sleen stands right next the thrall... shakes like a wet dog, spraying the area with water fish and other nasty bits from it's teeth.

Franziskus nods to the blacksmith "Safe paths, Eric.". He winks to tell him secretely, that soon he will have more goods for the smithery.

The kur: "That will be fine, you shall have your horns and leather as we sail." He gives a small nod and growl as the strange human departs.

The sleen's tail was far too big for such a small area and as it try to turn this way and that, it's heavy tail knocked over the goods on the stand.

Franziskus Ninetails nods "Well then. I will send one of my boys when the ship is ready. I think, Endy already knows the way. And... " - he looks at the slowly cleaning mess at the wall "... you should do something about that nausea"

The sleen sniffed the air, tongue flicking out.

Franziskus Ninetails growls a bit as he hears some crates behind him bursting.

The kur reaches down, unclipping the leash from the sleens neck, and speaks in kur "choq!"

The sleen's prime slave meat had wandered by and a hiss pushed off the step.

Endy growls and hastely bending to scoop up the good and put them into a crate before they get damaged.

The kur: "Cookie does like to hunt"

Franziskus Ninetails frowns a bit watching the sleen disappear "Hmmmm, you shouldn't let it hunt in the village... I don't think the villagers would tolerate that. And easily the hunter can become the hunted."

The kur: "She has been trained to track and herd female slaves"

Franziskus Ninetails nods, glad his has only male slaves, and that for more then one reason.

The kur: "It's good practice for her to track and follow through human villages, to get her used to all the smells."

The sleen licks the thrall and turns again to face it's Master knocking over more goods with it's tail.. and a cheeky snort.

The kur reaches down tickling Cookies belly

The sleen giggled if a sleen could.

Franziskus Ninetails sighs as he hears more then sees more crates falling to the ground. "Well, better let it hunt then before all my goods are landing in the dust"

Endy winces, the sleens leathery tongue having taken at least two layers of skin from his leg.

Geordie gives a soft growl, slapping his thighs as he calls over to the sleen. "jIj yur!" Then with the translator: "I have to head back, make sure the ones left behind know to behave themselves and not eat anyone in my absence."

The sleen runs, nearly knocking the Jarl out the way at the command, it's body nearly wrapping round the Master.. with a nuge of it's ugly head it hissed.

Franziskus Ninetails nods, not sure how to farewell a kur decides for a simple "Uhmmmm... safe paths then....", just realizing he never knew the name of the beast

The kur turns and calls over his shoulder as he begins a long easy stride "Be well, Human"

Franziskus Ninetails shouts after the kur "TRY LAVINIA JUICE!" ((=against nausea)) then mumbles to himself "...or was it juice from the leaves of the brack bush?". He shrugs and finally turns to his boy and the goods, to inspect the damage the sleen left.....

*****

After that only a short RP with the blacksmith followed. He had returned and I gave him some iron bars and tabuk horn and wool and leather ((all from that mentioned Nutri Life System)) to make working-tools for my boys.

So the next days we will go on another travel. And I hope this time I don't forget to take pictures!

Pro & Con of the NLS

2011-07-28T10:35:00.000+01:00

Okay, here's more boring thoughts about the NLS. - So if you don't have to deal with the Nutri Life System, then you don't have to read this. :-)

In theory it would be really nice, although it still has some weak-points. One of the weak-points is, that some of the "roles" you can chose in the hud, don't have any special skills. Or at least I haven't figured them out. Like for instance I don't know, what my special skills as "trader" would be. Or a warrior, or a builder, or an initiate... - While an ironworker seems to be the most important role as he can handle the forge and make tools, a healer can make medicine, and slaves seem to be multi-talented anyways, the other roles seem to be worthless. I don't even understand, why in the beginning a high caste role gets more coins in his hud then a trader, as in the books the merchants and slavers ALWAYS been the really rich people (therefore my groupname "Gold knows no caste") and therefore the ones with power and influence.

Another weak-point - as Misha already mentioned in the comment to the last article - is that it is all in German. For me of course no problem, but for otheres there is. Especially they seem to confuse the currency, so the prices for goods are very, very different on the certain markets. - So, here's some words about the money-system:

1 GT = 1 Gold Tarn = 100 ST

1 ST = 1 Silver Tarsk = 100 KT

1 KT = 1 Copper Tarsk = 100 TS

1 TS = 1 Copper Tarsk bit (bit!!!)

I wrote a while ago about the money-system in Gor and also about the problem, that John Norman wasn't logical (as so often) when he wrote about that. Like once mentioned, for 1 KT you get a paga + a slave girl for the night in the taverne. In another book mentioned, that for 5 KT you get a whole meal in a taverne. On another page mentioned, that a simple worker earned about 5-7 KT per day. But then again in another book mentioned, that boys in one of the oasises in the tahari got 1 KT for every customer they brought to the taverne. - So, we can't really rely on John Norman in this.

Maybe the easiest would be to relate 1 KT = 1 U$. After all John Norman started to write the books in the 60s and there's propably inflation on Gor too? So for a cup of paga you would easily pay 3-4 KT?

Now the problem is, that I know places - from the creator of the HUD-sytem himself, where you can SELL paga for 3 KT. Which is way too much, I guess. The economy would only work like this: A farmer grows suls and sa-tarna. He sells it to a brewer (or a trader who then sells it to the brewer). The brewer would make paga from it and sell it to a trader. A trader would sell it to the taverne-keepers. The taverne-keepers sell it to their guests. - And each of them make a bit of profit.

That's basics. But it will not work. Cause slaves just make some paga themselves.. because they can (OOC)... and put it in the taverne, where it is given out for free. And because the sources are endless. Everybody can go and harvest Sa-tarna, Sul, Larma, milk a bosk, hunt a tarsk... I think that's another weak-point of the NLS. If a Sa-Tarna field would take some time before it can be harvested - and if it was just 24 hours - then the peasant who would be responsible for it - would have a better eye on it. The warriors would need to protect the fields, so nobody actually steals from them and only the authorized people (the peasant in this case) can harvest it. Things like that.

Yesterday I heard the slaver has a lot of black wine beans. Fine. So why the heck does a slaver have black wine beans which only grow in the city of Thentis and are more valuable then gold? Did he travel? Did he RP? I don't think so. - Well, I don't blame or judge him. It's just an example why the system will not work.

Another point is, that it would be a lot of work. Traders have to RP trading. Farmers have to RP harvesting and selling their goods. Bakers have to RP baking. Brewers have to brew. Physicians would have to take money for their service. And tavern-keepers for their paga and meals. Then there had to be scribes as taxmen who collect taxes from the farmers, traders, bakers, brewers, physicians, tavernkeepers... From these taxes the warriors would be paid to protect the city/village.

THAT would be a fine system, but it would be a lot of RP and work. But people are people. We were willing to do it. We were RPing traveling, trading, I BOUGHT most of the goods, sold them somewhere else with profit, bought more... But I think me and my boys are the only ones who take it really serious. "It's just a game!", you may say, but: If you don't take it serious, then why use the system at all? If you don't make the best out of it, then it is just a waste of time.

The trading travel

2011-07-27T15:01:00.001+01:00

Okay, this post is of no interest for most of my readers (those 3). It's just an example for a trading travel.

So, we have this new Nutri Life System now. In theory it's quite nice. Exactly what I was looking for as a merchant and what I missed at the Gorean Meter (Yes, they missed the chance).

With this system you can hunt animals (bosk, tarsk, verr) harvest trees and fields, chop wood etc. etc. Then you can work with this rawmaterial. Make meals with different ingredients, make fire and so on. Oh, and of course SELL IT! Which for me as merchant in Gor is very important.

The thought of this system is good. You chose your role in the hud and you will have certain skills. Like an ironmaker can make tools, a healer can make medicine, a slave can cook.... I haven't found out what the special skills of a trader are though.

There are different climates like northern, moderate, tropic and desert. And some things only grow in a special region. - So far, so good. But the system is not very conceived yet, I think. The thought would be to encourage RP between SIMs... different regions... like salt only available in the desert, therefor cheap there, expensive in the north. Or leather and tabukhorn cheap in the north, valuable in the south. But 1. people don't take that chance for interactive RP between SIMs, and 2. the creator also offers "global" regions, which have just everything. Well, keeps them independent and they don't need to interact with other SIMs, but why then using the system at all?

Another weak point is the "beaming". Yes, we just click "teleport to" and voila - we are 2000 miles south. Quickly buy some salt and with another click teleport back home. So what's the sense of being a merchant and actually really ROLEPLAY the travels?

That's why I post this as an example. Maybe the one or other Gorean reader really thinks about "just jumping" to another SIM. Of course it didn't take me 6 or 7 weeks to RP this, but at least IC I was away for that time.

I already founded a group for everyone free to join, called "NLS Gold knows no Caste". To support a global system and sychronize prices etc. But about that I will write later....

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Franziskus, the merchant and harbourmaster of Kalana Fjord, made his ship ready and sailed with his slaves south to get goods, which won't grow in the cold north, no matter how hard the brave residents of Kalana Fjord try.

After a one hands (=Gorean week, 1 Gorean week = 5 days) travel with his ship, he and his slaves arrived on the islands of Tabor. Not the best friends of Torvaldslands, but Franziskus is a merchant; what does he care about the wargames of the warriors?

While his second boy stayed at the ship, he took his first boy with him to the market. His eyes widened as he noticed all the riches in the marketstalls, his mouth watered at the promise of making good trades. He bought tools and flour and blackwine powder, cacao... oh, and of course bazitea for the tearoom-lady (which - as he later heard - left the village).... and some more blackwine powder as he knew the addiction of the first boy of Kalana Fjord (and his own), though the beans are more precious then gold and not many can afford the bitter liquid... too precious actually for a thrall, but then again... that boy is always busy and on the run, so if his Master spoils him with that very special and luxurious liquid... who cares? The better for the merchant to sell him more of the precious powder. - With these thoughts he ordered just another sack.

So, Franziskus and his first boy strolled the market. More and more barrels and sacks he purchased and put on his slave's back. While he negotiated with a trader from Thentis about more blackwine-powder he pointed over his shoulder "Go and see if you find salt and sugar... oh, and paga and sulpaga... and maybe more bazi-tea for the tealady, my lil sunshine"

"Yes, my Master!", answered the slave and ran to search the stalls. As he came back, catching for breath, he reported: "I seen the tea on the same stall as the coco powder, my Master."

The boy's belly rumbled and he licked his lips at the sight of a ramberry pie, hopefully he looked to his Master, but such was too busy negotiating with a bee-keeper about the prices for honey, and only told his slave over his shoulder "I think the tea-room lady needs much tealeaves, mine"

A kajirus was sneaking between the marketstalls. Curiously he watched the traveling Master and his kajirus. As the merchant with his hands full of glases of honey, turned around, he almost stumbled over the slave "Aiiii! Tal, kajirus!", balancing the jars in his hand.

"Greetings, Master. Greetings, kajirus.", the slave answered in a soft voice

River returned and pointed to another corner of the market "I have found better quality tools, my Master", he said and then noticed the other slave, greeting him.

The other slave scurried back and apologized: "Master this one begs forgiveness, jai did not mean to startle you", but the merchant just shrugged and reached the glasses to his boy who was already heavy sweating from the weight of the southern goods. "No worries, boy", he said while packing his boy like a donkey. Then he looked around "Your peasants have been busy, huh? - I'm a merchant from far North. Many things not grow in our cold lands."

The kajirus nodded quickly, his inky hair falling about his eyes "Yes, Master, the village is excited to have the market. There are even traders from various lands, Master"

Franziskus nodded "Aye, I understand that. Your land must be quite rich!". From the corner of his eyes he watched his boy struggling to keep hold of the shovels and scythe as well as the sacks and honey.

The other boy shrugged. He reached down to adjust himself while he answered: "I guess, Master", but he said it with a sigh, as slave not understanding the monatary concept of Gor.

The merchant from the north looked at his boy "Did you see candies, my lil sunshine? The barrel in our kitchen is mysteriously getting more and more empty..." He smirked at his slave, then reached for the boy's hips, pinching to check if his lovehandles have grown.

"I did see the candy, my Master", the slave answered and licked his lips thinking of how nice the sweet taste of candy is. The other slave peeked arond the boy and saw the barrel of cherry candy, his mouth watering trying to remember the last time he had a piece.

But the merchant was too busy worrying for his boy struggling under the weight of all the errands. He reached into his wallet and grabbed some copper bits, holding it to his boy's lips so he could place them under his slave's tongue "Go and see if you can rent a cart somewhere, mine!"

"ess, mu mather", his slave mumbled with his mouth full.......

While the slave hurried away to find a cart to rent, the merchant turned to the other boy: "Hmmmm... mine said there was candy.... do you know, where it is, boy?"

"Yes, Master!", he answered and quickly scurried over and pointed to the barrel of cherry candy.

"Ah, when my boy gets the cart it will be easier for him.", the merchant said, looking around for his boy he saw him negotiating with a trader, placing the coins from his mouth into the traders hand and then placing the goods on a cart. He pulled it back to where his master was waiting.

"My Master, the trader said we can leave it at the dock."

Fanziskus nodded "Ah, that's good.", and turned to the crate with candies. He picked one of the candies between thumb and finger, turning it before his eyes. Then he looked at his slave "Come here now, mine. Kneel!"

"Yes, my Master", the slave answered quickly and knelt before the wagon. He looked up to his master.

Franziskus with a soft smile picked another candy "The best way to check the quality of candy is.....", he held the candy to his boy's lips and continued with a soft smile: ".... the soft tongue of a slave"

River licked his lips in anticipation, then dutifully opened his mouth waiting till his master placed the candy on his tongue. He moaned softly as the sweet candy tantalises his taste buds. He sucked on the sweet candy with pleasure.

The merchant of Kalana Fjord turned to the other boy and fed him with candy too, but the boy only opened his mouth slightly and carefully bit down on the candy. The merchant with a short laugh pushed the cherry candy deeper into the boy's mouth, then brushed a finger over his cheek. "Don't be so shy, boy!"

With his arms crossed he watched both of the slaves, waiting for their reaction. A smile on his lips as his first boy closed his eyes, relishing the flavour and sugaryness of it. "Mmmm, tank u, mu Mafter" he mumbled, dribbling a little down his chin. The other boy rolled the candy around on his tounge, a smile crossed as the sweetness begins to coat his mouth "Tank yew, Masser", he said too, a bit of drool running down his chin. He reached up whiping it with the back of his hand.

"Now, boys? How's the quality? Good?", Franziskus asked, as if the beaming faces of the slaves wouldn't tell more then 1000 words.

"Cady ish hood, ma Mafter", his boy ansered and nodded enthusiastically.

The other boy nodded too: "yus, Masster"

The merchant looked content and turned to the candymaker, ordering some boxes of candy. Some for his own use, others for selling it in the north.

His boy swallowed the last of his candy and looked up to his master in hope. As his Master saw the happy smile on the slaves' faces grinne and picked another two candies out from his recent purchase "One more for later?"

"Oh yes, please, my Master!"

Franzi grined and reached for another two candies, giving one of each to the boys. "Keep it for later". They quickly tucked it away and thanked him with happy faces. He looked at the slave who was obviously from Tabor: "How are you called, pretty one?"

"They call this one Jai, Master"

"Ah, Jai... very well." He smiled at the slave and ruffled the interesting hair "My regards to your busy peasants. I think I will soon come back to do more errands for trading with the north". The he looked at his own boy and mumbled more to himself "Hmmm, my lil sunshine seems to be tired. We should see to take the ship back"

"Yes, my Master", River answered and stood up, taking hold of the barrow again.

The merchant snipped his fingers "To the ship, my lil sunshine! Time to travel home!" He waved and winked to the other kajirus "Safe paths, Jai", then took his way to the docks.

The next morning the ship left the harbor. But not towards north. South they went, took a short stop at Bazi, but it wasn't the time for the tea-harvest, so they continued traveling to the Port of Schendi. At the harbour of Schendi the ship entered mainland. Through the jungles of Schendi the travel went. Often the river got so tight that they couldn't sail and the seamen had to row. Further and further inlands, one hand they traveled until the jungle got lighter, reaching the southern prairies, and another hand until they reached their destination point: Kurzal.

From there Franziskus joined a caravane inwards. He left his seamen and his slaves in the city to regain their power after the exhausting passage along the river. After another 2 days the caravane finally reached the Oasis of Klima. Formerly the City of slaves [note: As far as I remember it actually still should be. There were no women in Klima and it was only salt-mines, full of male slaves. Not a "city" like it is in SL-Gor], now a rich city... rich from the trading with the famous salt of Klima.

Soon after his arrival, the merchant from the north entered the vivid market, after passing the guards. He wiped the sweat from his face, not used to the hot temperatures. Soon he got into negotiations with different merchants. He wondered that he not only found the salt he was looking for, but even cheap Sul-paga and Sa-Tarna paga. He would never have expected, that they can offer it so cheap there in the south, as there obviously won't grow much suls and sa-tarna in the desert.

However he didn't show his surprise, instead he haggled with the merchant "HOW MUCH should the sul-paga cost?!?", and then started to whine about his spendthrift FC and kids, not to mention the slaves, which were always hungry, how pleasing otherwise they might be....

He did as if he wouldn't understand the strange accent of the merchant ((RP was in German)) negotiating about at least 10 barrels of Sul Paga, as the sul-harvest in the north this year wasn't very fruitful. [[Okay, really... not reasonable. Sul Paga, Sa Tarna Paga... such thinks should be EXPENSIVE in the desert. There just wouldn't grow any Sul or Sa Tarna. While Salt should be cheap, which it wasn't]]

As Franzi in spite of all his whining and complaing wasn't successful to get a discount, he at least could negotiate about a good price to hire a caravane for the way back to Kurzal. With the feeling he still made a good business and already counting the copper tarsks in his mind, he continued his tradings. He stops on another marketstall, when an old woman is offering flour and Blackwine-powder [[Again: such things in the desert???]] Testing the flour with a wet finger, he wonders about the cheap price the woman tells him for a full sack of it, but he shows his best pokerface. He considers to hire a bigger caravane, ordering several sacks of the flour and - of course - even more blackwine powder.

The whole day he was busy negotiating, haggling, buying goods cheap, which would be expensive in the north - if available at all. At the late afternoon, after he got a small meal in one of the tavernes, he rested a bit in the shadows of palms as a slave girl approached him.

"Greetings, Master. Can I help you?", she asked.

Franziskus looked over to the caravane, where the workers for some copper bits were loading the exotic pack animals. Then he turned his gaze to the girl "Tal, kajira". He pointed over to the caravane "I got almost everything what I need for my people in the north. I come from far... far... FAR away.", he said and pointed towards west, always bad with directions.

The girl smiled and her eyes wandered down the body of the the merchant, wondering about his strange clothes of leather and fur.

Franzi continued "I hoped to find Cacao powder, but unfortunately.. nothing"

The kajiar answered with a smile "A long way you got before you, Master. Better you fill your waterbladders well." Then she shook her head "But cacao... ? No, I don't we have that here, Master."

She wished him safe paths and with his permission returned to one of the tents, swinging her hips seductively.The merchant watched her leaving, his eyes fixed on her swaying butt. But then he turned over and continued his little nap.

As the sun went down at the horizon, he got up. Better to travel at night, when the Tahari isn't too hot....

Three days later he was back in Kurzal. The ship was laying deep in the water after all the sacks of salt, the barrels of paga were loaded. With the ship so heavy now, it took them even longer for the way back through the plains and the jungle. Three hands they traveled and another 8 days until they finally reached the north.

The merchant's heart jumped as they saw the coast of Torvaldsland, although deep inside still a child of the south, he felt like coming home. Too long he had been away....

and for the good things

2011-07-20T12:24:00.000+01:00

I really have to take more pictures again.....

The moves in Kalana Fjord are done. We joined a cluster called Ironhall. It's far north of Gor. Torvaldsland, the equivalent to the vikings. Though straight SIMs they seem nice so far. (Of course you also find idiots like anywhere else)

They use the Nutrilife System, which is a hud to encourage RP. You have to collect and prepare food, you have to eat, you can get ill, then you need medicine. It also has a coin-trading system in it.... We still have to figure it all out, but it seems to be fun (hopefully not so much work that we don't have time for other stuff).

And we finally started roleplaying again. My boy Endy was caught by a kur. By a kur with a cold. *grins* And threatened to kill him when he doesn't bring him medicine. So we went on travels north to find a healer (and to meet new people). It was nice to finally have some RP again, even if I think I'm a bit rusty...

I really wished I had taken pictures....

Bitchy me

2011-07-20T12:06:00.001+01:00

And another time got a bit upset yesterday. - I don't like to be so bitchy, but sometimes enuff is enuff. I worked hard on the City of Corcyrus. More then two months day and night... no time for RP, no time for relaxation, no time for my slaves, no time for RL... even jeopardizing my health (and still suffering from it)... But I've done it with love. Love for building and love for creating beauty and love for (most) of the residents of Corcyrus, which (almost) all were very nice and friendly to me and my boys.

A creation like this would at least cost 2000 U$ upwards (I even heard of prices up to 15.000 U$). But I've done it for free. Is that stupid? Maybe. But I've done it for the mentioned love. And I've done it for my reputation as builder. The conditions for that were, that 1. the buildings remain my property and 2. they keep untouched. Whatever they FURNISH inside... I don't care.

But now some individuals think they have to "improve" the building to their own (tasteless) taste. So who the hell do they think they are that THEY have to "improve" something when 1000s of others say it's perfect in it's beauty already? So I get building-parts sent back, doors, walls and building-components arriving in my lost-and-found folder, they exchange it with their own stuff and when they can't, they put walls and floors OVER mine. Like a rustic wooden floor (!) to the marble-walls. *shudders*

If someone wants changes in his private rooms, I'm the first one to come and help. That's not a problem. But all within limits! A healer who doesn't like the green tapestry in the infirmary because she doesn't like the color green? Gosh! Go and join another caste!!! (for those who are not familiar with Gor: Gor has castes and each caste has it's own color. The color of physicians is... guess what!... green! duh!)

And apart from that - you can't be everybody's darling. They want big changes today, and the next day they will leave anyways. They know, but they will try anyways to see how far they can go and get their own will. If you allow it, there would be changes bit by bit, step by step... and soon it would be a cacophony of individual prims and not a matching unity.

So, yes! I'm bitchy about that and scare some people with temper tatrums. But I'd rather delete it all then watch the Jewel of the Vosk becoming uglier day by day...

The move

2011-07-18T02:09:00.000+01:00

Now the City of Corcyrus is finished and I hoped to get some rest and time to relax, but this isn't so. I started to sort my inventory on thursday; of course after all that building it's messier then ever! At least I got it down from 35.000 to 33.600 again. And I LOVE the Kinex-texture organizer which makes sorting textures (and then box it up and delete it from the inventory) so much easier. But of course it still takes time and will need some more weeks of sorting. However I hope, that then I'll be under 20.000 again, when this work is done. But hanging around in undies on my building-platform and sorting textures is kinda relaxing.

The weekend was quite stressing. Mostly because of RL work with long shifts. And then because still struggling with connection-problems. Haven't solved those yet (since I'm on windows 7) and it sucks! And with all the fighting against crashes we tried to move our house in Kalana Fjord as the SIM now finally moved and joined the ironhall-cluster.

They use a RP-system there which is called "Nutrilife". It seems interesting, but again: Something new to learn. *sighs* I just hope, that at the end it won't keep us too busy with cooking and hunting and milking bosks and picking larmas... so that we won't have time for real RP anymore. Well, we will see... We will also see about some other things, which I won't talk about here in "public".

And then there's the firestorm viewer... I heard rumours, that SL1 and Phoenix soon won't work anymore, so better get used to the firestorm-viewer, which is phoenix' answer to SL2.0, now. I downloaded it and took a short look. Moaned and shut it down. But I guess I better get used to it soon.

Oh well, and then there's the shop. Wanted to change some things there too and have a lot of new items I should get ready for sales.

Soooo.... relaxation? Not this year!

finis

2011-07-14T16:19:00.000+01:00

And this is, what I was busy for the last two months+

Just a little pride...

2011-07-11T02:25:00.000+01:00

Some years ago someone said about my building-skills, I'd be just dropping prefabbed prims and every idiot can do that... Well, I am now almost finished with the City of Corcyrus and although it isn't even officially opened yet, it is in traffic already among the first 5 Gorean SIMs (and there are several 100). And a part of it I think is because people want to see the city, many want to stay and live there and they bring their friends in too. My boys call me a "Master Builder" and the visitors and citizens of Corcyrus are full of praise, some calling it even "A piece of art". I for myself don't see me as Master-Builder. I am still struggling with scripts and sculpts - two skills a Master-Builder in my opinion would have to posess. But I think I have decent skills and I love to create and I have taste combined with being good in mathematics and an eye for details plus - thanks to OCD - a certain.. obsession.
However, I'm a little bit proud of what I created there, although I know.. thinking about it... having more time... and more prims... I know, I could do better. :-)

Anywho... I'm getting a bit tired of not having time for other things, so I hope this week the work will be done. Then we can move back to our Gorean home in Kalana Fjord, which is moving to another cluster. I'm looking forward to a certain RP-system they are using there. And I guess as it has German basics, I have a bit of advantage.

still busy building

2011-07-01T11:45:00.000+01:00

Just a short comment to leave, that I'm still busy building that city. Getting a bit tired of it as I got no time to do anything else. Hopefully it will be ready somewhat next week.

And these days often an old song goes through my mind. Those people around me know why!

Too busy to breath

2011-06-09T13:00:00.000+01:00

Okay, it's been a while since I wrote here and it will take another while until I got time again. It all started with selling a house... and then offering help adjusting it... and then making suggestions about the SIM-design... and one thing let to another.. soooooo.... I'm building a Gorean SIM. And building lots, lots, lots of new houses for it. *ooomph* This up there was the last one I'm working on. Will sell them laters, single and as set. But that will be more work then.. *sighs*

Sooooo, I'm neglecting everything at the moment - my boys, friends, fun, RL.... On the one side I love building and at least a part of Tidra (the temple-ruins) are coming back to life, on the other side I wished the progress would be faster.

Well, at least I found out this (new?) function in the phoenix viewer. Never recognized it before (not sure if it was there before!?). It's so cool and saves me hours and hours of work. But I will talk about this later (so... in about 3-4 months *meh*).

And I found that new texture-organizer which is just awesome!!! Everything I missed in the freebie-organizers. Sondra, the SIM-owner, gifted it to me and I bounced happily for about an hour as I figured out all it's functions. Not alone that it is loading textures into the content much easier and faster then the freebies, it can also show sculpties (and give you the prim) out of sculpt-maps, you can search by name (another thing I miss in the freebies, as I have for instance "doors" some under "metal", others under "wood" etc), it finds and deletes duplicates, you can move textures within the organizer from one category to another, you can set permissions who can use it, you can pack textures from a category and copy it as folder into your inventory, and... and... and... When I (ever) am done with the SIM, this will help me a lots to organize (and reduce) my inventory. *Yay!*

Okies! Back to work! Just wanted to say hi!

Tel's & Dee's Wedding

2011-05-27T16:23:00.000+01:00

They didn't want presents, but here's an immaterial one:

(Wished I had the time to film more, but as best man I didn't want to miss too much... )

without words

2011-05-17T21:38:00.002+01:00

Mehz likez....

2011-05-09T12:52:00.001+01:00

... my new logo
(mainly made by my boy River and of course - for the picture of the original seal - by my boy Mick):

... and my new (first) shop (totally made by mehz):

House Spencer

2011-05-04T13:12:00.000+01:00

Okay, "House Spencer" is finished also. I'm not sure, if many people would buy a house with basement, but as it is ready anyways... So, here it is:

House Finn

2011-05-03T21:05:00.000+01:00

And another house is ready! - Now this was kinda funny. I mentioned our friends Finn & Spencer before (check them out if you need customized poses or portraits... or both). Now they moved to Gor (Tabor Fields) and bought the merchant house from me. But Tabor Fields is southern style whereas the merchant house is northern/viking style. Sooooo they asked me for a retexturing to match the other buildings (*clears his throat at this point and bites his tongue*) on that SIM. And out came "House Spencer" (will follow later).

Chance - one of the owners of Tabor - liked it so much, that he bought it (the prototype of "House Spencer") and a no-basement version too. So here is: HOUSE FINN.

The more I worked on it, the more I liked it. Furnished and with some paintings on the wall it looks lovely inside too. I'm going to build some other variations of it (as well as of the Northern type), including a stable. So lots to do!

Oh, and it's really time for an inworld shop soon! Working on that also....

Busy business

2011-04-27T19:52:00.002+01:00

We hadn't used our earth-parcel much in the last months except for the building-plattform. Somehow the house felt too big and I couldn't get into the mood to furnish and decorate it. Now things changed! We got a smaller main house, Juz & Joshie got a tiki over the waves, and Endy finally moved in with us with his own house, all matching together (same creator: Bee Caudron, who really does a good work in tiki-/beach-houses).

So now the main house is furnished and decorated, and I also changed the garden behind the house.... And now we all like it so much that we don't want to leave (for our Gorean house) at all!

Here are just some quick snapshots:

Talking of Gorean houses: The Merchant house without basement is ready and on marketplace! Though marketplace sucks a bit... only because of the word "Gorean" in the description, it automatically sets it to "mature" content. Strange, strange, strange!

Well, planning on my own lil shop anyways, so that potential customers can rezz the builds on a platform to take a look at it. Not that I would have to sell yet soooo much (silly me is always giving his stuff away for FREE! dang!)

The branding

2011-04-25T15:07:00.001+01:00

I edited the RP-chatlog on saturday of branding my boys River & Endy. I think it's nicer to read this way, easier then just a chat-log, though it took me some hours to put it in the right form. I hope you enjoy it:

That afternoon Franziskus, the merchant of Kalana Fjord, commanded his boy Endy "Come with me!". He led the slave to the storage hall in the basement and pointed to the brazier. "Grab that and come!"

"Yes, my Master", the boy answered and moaned softly as he picked up the heavy brazier of iron, filled with coals. Franziskus Ninetails looked at the brazier then at his boy, wondering if he'd be strong enough to carry it. He nodded content as his boy carried the brazier, slowly though, but anyways.

The merchant led his slave through the village of Kalana Fjord to the far corner with the stone-circle. His slave paused several times for breath as they walk to the other side of the village, but finally managed it to follow his Master.

As they reached the stone-circle, Franzi pointed to the ground at his feet. "Hmmmmmmm, yes! Put it here, mine!"

Endy sighed happily to put down the brazier. "Y..yes... M... my Master"

"Now go and fire the coals, my lil moonbeam!". Franziskus waited for his slave to burn a fire in the brazier to heat up the coals. Endy took the firelighter ((yes, they exist in Gor!)), and set the paper at the base of the coals alight.

As the fire was burning, the Master took two irons from his belt and put their ends between the coals. "Keep this fire hot for the next hours, my lil moonbeam, so the coals are glowing nicely."

"Yes, my Master. You are wanting an outdoor roast, my Master?"

Franziskus nodded and grinned: "Yes... kind of! Roasting yummy meat!"

Endy smiled "You need me to go to the butcher, my Master?"

"No, just care for the fire, mine"

"Yes, my Master"

Franziskus hugged his boy before he left to return to the house "I will be back later, my lil moonbeam"

"Yes, my Master. Don't forget the meat, my Master"

The merchant grinned even brighter and answered "I won't!", before he turned to return to their house.

The slave started to fan the fire to keep it burning hot the next hours. Too deep in concentration - or just too lost in thoughts - he didn't notice the first boy of the village - Misha - sneaking up behind him. He jumped. "Greetings, brother"

"Tal, brother", answered the red haired slave. "It is a nice cool spot here with you fanning!", he teased Endy, jumping on the altar in the center of the stone-circle. Behind him his sister in chains - Mynx - appeared and with a bright grin on his face he greeted her "Tal, my sister"

"Offering yourself to the gods, brother?", Mynx asked teasing him.

"No, just my butt."

"I am sure, Odin will appreciate it, Misha!", Endy commented with a grin.

The three slaves continued a while teasing and goofing around until the first boy of Kalana Fjord had to leave. "My chores are waiting for me!", said he and jumped off the altar, waving at the other two slaves as he ran to his Master's house.

After he was gone, the bond turned to Endy: "Going to stay there all day brother?"

"Until my Master comes back, Mynx. He told me to keep the fire very hot."

Mynx looked at the fire "I have a feeling its going to end in some pain."

Endy looked puzzled back to her. "No, I think our Master just wants to do some roasting outdoors."

"I dont think so...", said the bond, giving him a strange look.

Endy looked back at her curiously "How do you mean? Why else would he need the hot fire?"

Instead of an answer Mynx looked inside the brazier for some kind of sticks or iron rods.

The thrall - following her gaze to the irons in the brazier - pointed at them "Well, he needs somthing to stop the meat falling into the flames."

"This is too small for meat... and you’re only in a loincloth....", she answered with hestitation.

Endy looked down at himself, not really understanding the bond's point as he was often in loincloths... or less. He returned his glance to the obviously mad slavegirl "umm... you sure you are ok?"

Mynx turned to him and walked behind him. She looked at his butt and gave it a light pat on his bottom. "I think the meat is here", she said with a grin on her face.

Endy gasped: "You think my Master has turned cannibal?"

Mynx gigled as she leaned over him and gave him a hug "No.. but i think something nice and hot will go on your ass"

Endy looked at her puzzled, trying to figure out why she thought eating outside will get him opened.

Mynx shook her head: "Even if I dont have one but I’ve seen the other boys get them." She motioned to the rods inside the fire and continued: "I think your master plans on giving ya a brand!". She shrugged: "Your master be disrespecting mine if he meant to cook inside here!"

Endy answered with a relieved smile: "I have a brand, sister!" and motioned with his chin towards his chest, where the mark of the kef - the Gorean sign for 'kajirus' or 'kajira'- was to be seen. Then referring to the bond's note he asked: "Why you think he would not invite your Master?"

Mynx looked to his chest "But most get branded on their bottom as well brother..", which was true. Most Gorean Masters enjoyed to touch their slaves' brandings when they make love to them. That's the reason why most slavegirls wear are brand on their left thigh whereas slaveboys are branded on their right buttock.

She wrinkled her nose at the thought of a barbeque in the stonecircle "Not inside theses rocks... these are sacred area... only used for ceremonies... I doubt your master plans on disrespecting mine!"

Endy smiled "Ah, perhaps a sacrifice to Odin then!"

Mynx shrugged again. "Whatever you want to think, brother! But I doubt it..."

Endy rolled his eyes. "Well, I am sure, you can think what you want to think... "

Mynx shook her head "Well... I'll be telling you 'told you so!' soon. I am sure."

Endy suddenly getting an idea smiled. "Perhaps my brother?! He has no Kef!"

Mynx shook her head again. "I don't think so!"

"But.... my Master did say he wanted some 'yummy meat'!"

Mynx looked toward the docks then over his body a bit. "Well, aren't you yummy meat?"

Endy blushed. "I don’t think so, Mynx. I have not even been able to incite my Master's lusts enough for him to open me."

Mynx winked at him "Oh, I am sure that will change soon."

Endy shrugged "From your mouth to Odins ear, sister!"

The bond smiled and sticked her tongue out. "I think I know what I am talking about... been around you boys long enough and survived". With a big grin she took a few steps back. "I need to go on some fishing!"

"Have you tried the beach, there is good fishing on the pier, I believe"

"Yes, but thats small game. I am looking for something differnt to cook for Jarl"

The slaveboy nodded, thinking from the size of her Jarl that it would need to be huge as he is such a giant. "There is good fishing on our docks I think, there was even a shark the other day!", he suggested, then added "umm.... not that I think you should try to land the shark."

The girl giggled "hehe... Well, I'll be watchful!"

She winked at him and turned. Waving to him she shouted over her shoulder:"Take care, Endy! And hope your ass wont hurt to much tonight!"

Endy blushed and shouted a "Serve with fire!" as she left to the waters for fishing.

The sun already close to the horizon, the slave - alone again only with the crackle of the coals - continued fanning air to the fire, waiting for his Master's return.

Hours later Franziskus returned from his house, some cuffs and chains hanging from his belt. He smiled at his boy "I'm back, mine!". He looked at the glowing coals and nodded. "Hmmm, I think you can take a break now."

The slave had kept his eyes closed, his arms sore from hours of fanning, but he had his Master's instructions and tried not to scream from the pain in his arms. He jumped as he suddenly heard his Master's voice behind him and opened his eyes.

His Master tossed half of the cuffs from his belt on the ground to Endy's knees. "Put these on, my lil moonbeam!", he commanded.

Endy slowly lowered the fan to the floor, and put the cuffs on his wrists and ankles without questioning.

Franziskus while his slave was going to put on the cuffs reached into his pouch and pulled some dried and salted bosk-meat out of it. He tossed it into his slave's lap: "Brought you something to eat too"

The thrall smiled gratefully at his Master and chewed the meat hungrily as he continued fastening the cuffs. "Thank you, my Master"

Franz took an edge of his cloak to protect his hand as he pulled one of the hot irons out of the glowing coals, inspecting the glowing tip of the iron.

Endy rubbed his arms slightly to increase the blood flow while he commented: "Mynx was being very silly! She thought that you were going to brand me instead of cooking something." He chuckled at the girl's sillyness, then quickly finished the last of the dried bosk. "You brought bosk meat to roast, my Master?", he asked hopefully.

The merchant looked up from the iron and grinned. "Mynx was here?"

Endy smiled at his Master "Misha was here and Mynx wandered over on her way to fish."

Franz's grin turned into a mystical smile and he returned his attention to the iron, recognizing it almost had the right color. Finally he pushed it back into the glowing coals and shook his head "That girl! Always fishing!!! Who's going to EAT that much fish?", he asked with a laughter.

Endy winced "Oh... you brought fish instead of bosk?", he asked less hopefully not being so fond of fish and not being able to see any large meat carried by his Master.

"Hmmm, maybe we can roast some fish... afterwards..."

"Meat and fish, my Master?"

"Aye, why not?"

Franz turned towards the docks looking in the direction of his house and mumbled "I wonder, where your chainbrother is so long..."

"I do not know, my Master."

After a moment of silence the slave giggled: "It would be more likely you would brand my brother, he still has no kef."

Franz with his gaze still towards his house as if he expected his first boy coming around the corner any ihn mumbled distracted "I'm not branding a kef"

Endy looked up blushing "I am sorry, my Master, I must need to clean my ears, I did not hear you"

"I said... I'm not branding... your brother... a kef..."

"Yes, I knew Mynx could not be right", he answered with a relieved smile, then sniggered. "Silly girl, thinking you were branding us!"

Franz ignoring his slave's assumptions turned his glance from the horizon back to his slave. "Well, go and look if your brother is back now. If so, bring him here too!"

"Yes, my Master", the slave answered obediently and took some paces back in respect before he turned to run towards the harbor.

Franz reached for the bota at his belt and shouted after him "Endy?!"

Quickly the slave turned and ran back to his Master, heavy panting. "Yes, my Master?"

Franz tossed his bota to his boy "And when you're at the house, fill this with paga!"

Endy smiled at the thought that his Master must want a drink with the roast bosk. "Yes, my Master", he answered as he caught the bota in the air. He turned and ran to the harbor again.

As the slave reached the house he found his chainbrother returned from his chores.

"Where is our master?", the first boy asked immediately.

"He is getting a meal ready for us I think. Come with me, my brother", Endy answered.

"A meal?"

"Yes, my brother, I believe so"

"Why would our master make us a meal?", River asked and looked at his chainbrother in confusion. But Endy just shrugged.

In silence the two slaves wandered back to the sacred stonecircle, where they saw their Master still standing at the brazier. Endy smiled and pointed from some distance "See, my brother? He has the fire all ready for roasting the meat"

The merchant heard the voices and looked up. He smiled as his first boy approached finally "Ah, there you are finally, my lil sunshine!"

River looked around in confusion, not seeing any meat. He fell to his knees before his Master and lowered his head. "Forgive me, my master, my chores took longer than I expected."

Endy knelt beside his chainbrother and held out the bota to his Master. "My Master, your Paga as requested"

Franziskus nodded to River, then took the bota from Endy's hands. He opened it and sniffed at it, nodding content. Then he reached the bota to his first boy "Got something to celebrate today, so drink, my lil sunshine! Take a deep sip!"

River gulped and looked at the bota remembering the last time he tasted paga. With trepidation he reached for the bota and took a small sip.

His Master smiled at small sip his boy was taking. His memory turning back to the day when his slave drank paga without permission and he had to punish him. But this time he commanded him in a warm voice: "More!"

The fluid burned down the slave's throat. He whimpered as his master commanded more. Taking a deep breath River set the bota to his lips again and took a bigger slug of the firey liquid. He coughed and choked as it burned down his throat again.

Their Master reached for the second pair of cuffs at his belt and tossed it between his first boy's spread legs "Reach the bota to your brother and put these on your wrists and ankles!", he commanded with a soft voice.

River looked to his brother nervously and handed him the bota. Endy took the bota from his brother and held it uncertainly in his hands whilst his brother put on the cuffs. Franziskus smiled warmly to his other boy. "Drink too, my lil moonbeam. Today you have my permission"

The Jarl watched his two boys... River picking up the cuffs and locking them on to his ankles. His first boy looked up to him "Behind my back, my master, or in front?"

"Only around your wrists and ankles. No need to link them together"

Endy in the meantime thanked his Master and gulped deeply from the bota, having not been able to quench his thirst whilst fanning for so long. After two gulps he stopped, not wanting to get drunk having so little liquid in his system to counteract the paga. But his Master nodded at him and encouraged him "More!"

The slave looked at the brazier curiously, still not understanding where the meat is coming from, and wondering if the other Free are coming to bring some. At his Master's command he carefully took another gulp of the paga, hiccuping slightly afterwards.

As River, the first boy, finally clipped the cuffs to his ankles and wrists, he put his hands behind his back, kneeling before his Master in the slaveposition of bracelets. But his head not lowered, looking up instead at his Master with trust, but not understanding why he and his brother were to drink paga especially when before it was forbidden to them.

As Endy finished drinking, their Master held his hand out "Now give it back to me!"

"Yes, my Master", Endy answered handing the almost empty bota back to his Master.

Franzi took it and corked it again, then attached it back to his belt. He turned away from his slaves and walked over to the bench.. a wooden rack he had placed there the day before. He took his cloak off, folded it and placed it on the rack like a cushion. Then he turned back to his boys "Come over here, mine!"

At their Master's command River moved quickly to his Master's side and fixed his eyes on the device that was sitting on the stone ring, not remembering seeing it before. His Master pat with his flat hand on the leathered - and now padded with his cloak - rack. "My lil sunshine? Lay down here on your belly!"

Panic started to rise in the boy. He shot a quizzically, confused glance to his slavebrother, but then quickly obeyed his Master's command. Endy watched confused as this didn't round like a roaster meal after all.

[Bunny spots movement ahead she grins wickedly darts behind a huge rock and watches, her fingers slip around her back pulling bow.] *)

Franziskus took the chains attached to the bench and clipped them into his first boy's cuffs. Then turned to the other end and ... hestitated as he thought he heard something in the bushes in some distance. He looked at his boys and then back to the green brush. "Hmmm... did you hear something?". For a while he looked around but saw or heard nothing anymore. Finally he shrugged and clipped the chain into the cuffs at his first boy's ankles. He checked the chains and tightened them even closer so his boy was almost unable to move. Finally he took a ring attached to the bench and pulled it around his first boy's hips, so the slave's butt and hips were tied into a tight grip of iron.

Secured to the rack like this, River looked up at his master. His thoughts racing, frantically cerebrating what he might have done wrong, that he might be punished. His brother, too, looked worried, wanting to reassure his brother, but suddenly had a bad idea about what the Master meant by 'meat'.

"My ... my master?", River asked in panic. His eyes drifted over to the brazier and for the first time he saw the irons protruding out of it. His eyes widened.

Franzi smiled down to his first boy. "It will only hurt a few ihn, my lil sunshine", he said and gently caressed his slave's butt before he turns to the brazier, commanding his other boy "Come here, my lil moonbeam, and hold your brother's butt. But hold him tight!"

Endy gulped "Yes, my Master". He whispered to his brother "Sorry, my brother"

Reaching for one of the irons and pulling it out from the glowing coals, Franziskus lifted it to his eyeheight and nodded content as he saw, that it had the right color - a glowing white. He returned with the glowing iron to his first boy.

River turned his glance away from the iron and whimpered to his slavebrother, who held him tight: "Brother...."

Endy gulped and held his brother even tighter. "Breath, my brother, it will be over soon...", and didn't add his thought of '... I hope!'

The Master came closer. The glowing iron bright in the beginning darkness of the northern early nights. With a warm soothing voice he told his first boy: "It is time that you wear my mark, my lil sunshine. You should wear it with pride!"

River shook at his Master's words, torn between the wish of wanting his Master's mark and terrified of the pain.

"You are allowed to scream, my lil sunshine!"

River head spinning from the paga, his heart racing as he felt his master come behind him. The heat from the iron close but not touching his skin ... yet. "Th.... thank you... my master", he whimpered. His brother whimpering, too, tried to hold the first boy in chain in place, not wanting the brand to blur and spoil on his brothers skin.

Franziskus took a deep breath, glad his hand was not shaking. He aimed at his boy's right buttock. The iron came closer and closer... River closed his eyes, frightened at what is going to happen... Then the iron was pushed forward on the slave's skin. The boy's terrible scream cut the night. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........................."

Franziskus holding his breath to not blur the mark pressed the iron into his slave's skin and counted in his mind "... 1.... 2......3....." .... The smell of burning skin teased his nostrils. Endy tried not to look, but heard the skin sizzling under the brand.. trying to keep his brother firm in place to keep the brand mark perfect... River screamed and screamed as the iron burned into his buttock, biting deeply into his flesh for three endless ihns... the smell of his own burning flesh filling his nostrils. Then the iron was pulled back and the slaved screamed again.... "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................."

Franziskus breathed again. He stepped closer and waited for the branding to clear a bit... nervously... hoping that it marked his first boy in a perfect shape. He took the bota with his free hand, decorked it with his teeth and poured some of the liquid over the branding to desinfy it, then looked again closely, leaning forward.. He beamed as slowly the contures appeared, and mumbled "Perfect!"

River whimpered softly as he tried to be brave. He wiped his eyes on his arm and cried out again as the paga renewed the burning. His brother stroked his hair lovingly, whispering "Well done, my brave brother!"

The Master after giving his first boy an ehn to breath, finally commanded his other boy: "Release your brother now, my lil moonbeam". He turned to put the iron back into the brazier.

"Yes, my Master", Endy answered relieved that the branding is over, and started to release his brother from the chains.

River waited for his brother to release him... confused with emotion... though in pain but.... somehow proud that his Master at last deemed fit to mark him as His. Endy, releasing him from the cuffs and the ring, whispered in his ear "So proud of you, my brother, I could not have done that!"

As River finally was released from the chains he fell to his knees before his Master. The Master smiled down to his first boy and pulled him closer at the collar, allowing his boy to hug his legs. His fingers gently caressed his boy's hair "Now you are wearing my mark and you are totally mine, forever and ever, my lil sunshine", he said with a soft and loving voice.

River burried his face into his Master's crotch, his tears seeping into his Master's pants. He heard his Master's words and nuzzled deeply. "I love you, my Master", he whispered. "Thank you for finding this one worthy "

Endy smiled and wiped a tear from his eyes at the love their Master had for the first boy in chain. He quickly fanned his eyes before his brother saw his tears and thought he'd be soft. He crawled a big closer, sneaked behind his brother to see the brand mark, and smiled when he caught a glimpse of it.

Franziskus Ninetails finally ruffled his first boy's hair to release him from the hug. "The pain will be gone in a few days. And then a nice mark will decorate your butt"

River wiped the wet from his eyes as his Master gently pushed him away, into the hug of Endy, who whisperd "Well done, my brother".

Franzi granted the slaves a short moment. Finally Endy looked up to their Master with a smile: "Well, shall I leave the brazier to cool and collect it in the morning, my Master?"

"There's a second iron in the fire, my lil moonbeam.", his Master answered with a smile. He pointed to the rack "Take your loincloth off and lay there, my lil moonbeam!"

River looked to his brother with pity but nods at him to be brave, "It's not so bad.", he lies in a whisper.

Endy blushed "Umm... I am not worthy, Master, I still make so many mistakes in my chores, and forget to call you 'my' Master", he claimed, hoping to get away from the pain of branding.

But Franziskus commanded his first boy "Tie your brother down well, my lil sunshine!", and went over to the brazier. At Endy's pleading he lifted his eyebrows and turned to him "Oh, are you trying to tell me, that you need a punishment branding also?"

River got to his feet and limped as he moved to his brother. He took Endy's hand and whispered softly "Don't argue, my brother, you will just get punished". But Endy pulled by his brother to the rack gulped at their Master's words "p..p... punishment branding, my Master?"

River pulled heavier at his brother's hand, afraid Endy would talk himself only deeper in trouble "Come... brother..... please..."

The merchant smirked and turned to his first boy "River? When you tied your brother down, run to the taverne and ask the taverne-keeper if he still got an punishment-iron from his time as blacksmith!"

River gulped "Yes, my master"

Endy pulled against his brother's hand, not wanting to be hurt, resistant to follow him to the rack.

"Come, Endy, now... before it gets worse!", River begged his brother, trying to pull him to the rack.

The Master watched the resistance of his other boy with an evil grin on his face. "It seems your brother wants TWO new brandings!", he said to River. Then turned to Endy: "Right, my lil moonbeam?"

Endy whimpered "Master, please I....." and as he heard his Master's threats finally lowered his head, gave up his resistance and obeyed, letting River lead and tie him to the rack.

River locked his brother down tightly knowing how improtant it is that he not moved.

Franziskus continued still grinning "Or are you content with ONE mark, my lil moonbeam?"

Endy unable to think of anything else to say that will not result in the second branding just answered: "Yes, my Master." And after a short thought he admited the truth: "I want to be marked as yours, my Master". He bit his lips to avoid adding "...despite the pain" in case his Master punished him with the second branding.

As he was tied down and secured by his brother, Endy tried to keep still, but panic and the cold fog, that arrived, caused him to shiver against his bindings.

Franziskus pulled the second iron out of the brazier and checked it's color. He nodded satisfied and returned to his boys, commanding River "Hold your brother tight as he held you, my lil sunshine!"

River soothed his hair and whispered "Be brave, my brother", before he finally pinned him down on the rack with a firm grip. His brother thought back to the day he was branded in Etihad and how the outlaws had got him drunk and spread eagled. He knew that at least this is done in care and whispered back to his brother: "I will try not to fight against you, my brother"

Franzi smiled for a moment as he caught a glimpse at his first boy's butt with the fresh mark on it. The rims still red and bruised, but already clear, that it will become a beautiful mark decorating his slave's buttocks. Then he took a deep breath again to hold his hand still as he aimed at Endy's butt, mumbling "You may scream, my lil moonbeam".

Endy winced, remembering the pain from his first branding on his chest: "Thank you, my Master"

The Master lifted the iron, the hot tip came closer and closer to his boy's buttock..... he pushed the tip of the hot, glowing iron into his slave's skin and counted the ihns in his mind "...1....2.....3...."

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" cut the slave's scream through the night. He bit his lip, breaking the skin as every cell in his body tried to tell him to run.. but desperately trying not to struggle against his brother in case it smudged the mark.

Finally the Master pulled the iron off and reached for his bota again. Like before he decorked it and poured the remains of the liquid over his boy's butt. Nervously waiting to see, if it was a nice shape like on his other boy's butt.

Endy whimpered as the iron was removed, the burning of the iron over, but the internal burning of the damaged cells made him only too aware whom he belonged to. His brother losened his grip and started to stroke his hair, knowing too well how much it hurt.

Franziskus smiled content as he saw the mark clearer. He pat his boy's other buttock "Perfect too, my lil moonbeam!"

"T... t... thank you... my... Master", was all the boy could answer.

"Release your brother now, my lil sunshine!", the Jarl commanded while he put the branding iron back into the brazier.

"Yes, my master," River answered softly. "You were very brave, my brother," he whispered to his chainbrother as he released him from the rack.

As both boys knelt before Him, their faces lifted up to Him, loving and proud in spite of the pain He caused them, a deep warm feeling of love and pride filled His heart. He smiled down to Endy "Come here, my lil moonbeam!", he said and pulled his boy close, ruffling the soft hair, as his slave hugged his Master's leg and burried his face in his crotch.

"You were both very brave, mine! And your marks are unique on whole Gor!"

River, who felt not very brave, but very proud, looked up: "Unique, my master?"

Endy instead, his face still in his Master's crotch, glad that the Master's trousers will absorb his tears before his Master can see, whispers "Thank you, our Master".

River cocked his head to one side, surprised as he thought all thralls were branded the same.

Franziskus gently releasing his freshly branded slave from the hug, explained: "Only my slaves have this brand. It's custom-made by Sean after my sketches." [Actually it was made by Teleny, my bestie. Thank you again, dear!]

"We are deeply honoured, my Master", answered River.

Endy whispered to River "I only caught a glimpse of yours, but it is very beautiful my brother... welll... it will be when your body recovers"

Franziskus pat Endy's hair and pulled both boys closer to his feet again, gently stroking their hair. "Swim a lot in the ocean the next days, my boys. The saltwater will help healing it"

"Yes, my Master", both slaves answered unisone.

After a last ruffling of his boys' hair, Franzi pointed to the rack "Now take that to the house. The brazier you can get tomorrow when it cooled down.". He grabbed his cloak from the rack and tied it around his shoulders.

River took one end of the rack and waited for his brother to take the other. He moaned softly as his buttock contracted, making the brand burn anew, but said nothing and hid it best he could. Endy took the other end of the bench, his arms still felt like jelly from fanning for so long. He mumbled a quick prayer that he will not drop their Master's property. Together they hoisted up the rack and carried it home.

Franziskus led the way to the house. He walked slowly as his slaves were carrying the rack behind him. A proud and content smile on his face, a happy tune on his lips....

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*) This attack of a silly panther from our own SIM without any reason or sense, pissed us off for a while. At least she had the decency to leave after Endy asked her nicely, that she shouldn't attack with no reason in an ongoing RP, but of course she bitched a while in IMs. Threatened to complain to the SIM-owner of the NEIGHBOR-SIM (I couldn't care less!) and other bullshit. Well, she' made it to a collective no-RP-list. Congrats!

The Merchant's House

2011-04-20T17:48:00.002+01:00

Sold some stuff on marketplace this week and didn't hear any complains (yet), so I think it's doing well. --- Soooooo... many people said how much they like our house in Kalana Fjord and were they could buy it too; they were quite surprised, as I told them, I built it myself. Now I made a version of it for friends of mine and as I was about that I thought "Well, why not sell it on marketplace". So here it is:

P.S.: Will add another version without the basement soon!

P.P.S:: Price is atm down to 999 L$

P.P.P.S.: Marketplace continues to categorize it as "Moderate" instead of "General". When I want to change it, it says "Successfully updated, but the text in the keywords field forced a change in the maturity level". That's strange, as the keywords are: "Gor, Gorean, Keller, cellar, basement, medieval, Torvaldsland, Torvie, Viking, house, merchant, home," - Now WTF in these words justifies a change in the maturity level???