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Alright, the initial planning meeting for the new Gor room is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, Jan 27th at 6:00 p.m. Pork time (6:00 p.m. Central time) in the temporary room, ~Lar-Torvis~
The planning meeting will be closed (password protected). Please let me know of your interest in planning and i'll page you the password.
i'll prepare an agenda and post it at http://trimoon.proboards75.com by Saturday morning.
Please let me know of any discussion items that you'd like to add.
This should be interesting and fun...but creating this chat alternative is going to be a lot of work. i'm looking forward to this and to getting to know you better.
thank you
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Due to some conflicting scheduling (including my own), i need to move the planning meeting to Sunday, Jan 28th at 6:00 p.m. Pork (Central) time. The closed meeting will be in the temporary room, Lar-Torvis. For those that have indicated your interest in planning, i'll page you the password this morning. Again, please let me know of any agenda items that you'd like to include for this initial meeting.
Thanks to all of you.
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One of the first things to be decided will be *setting*....will it be an Inn, Tavern, City or encampment? Here is a bit of information to consider so please be prepared to discuss other peoples or settings. One thing to keep in mind, it should be a setting that provides as many opportunities as possible for different roles.
Wagon Peoples
: a fierce, migrating people consisting of four nomadic tribes that wander the Plains of Turia, living in huge, elaborate wagon homes. They grow no food, nor will they eat anything that has touched the dirt, living entirely on the meat and milk of the bosk. There is no known manufacturing. They are called herders and killers and are among the proudest peoples of Gor, regarding city dwellers as vermin in holes.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 4, 5 and 9
• Paravaci
: one of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples, the Paravaci are known as The Rich People. Their standard is a large banner of jewels strung on golden wires, forming the head and horn of a bosk. The value of such a standard is incalculable. The Paravaci brand is a stylized representation of a bosk head: a semi-circle resting on an inverted isosceles triangle.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 14
Tuchuk
: the fiercest of the four tribes of the Wagon Peoples. Tuchuk philosophies and personality are personified by it's secret Ubar, Kamchak. A proud, cunning, lusty, brawling, exceptionally skilled warrior who disguises his considerable intellect and deadly, aggressive spirit beneath wit and a broadly sketched 'who me?' befuddlement. These nomads have encampments of thousands of gaily painted wagons, their herds of the reverenced bosk, often numbering into the millions, surrounding them. Throughout the day, the camps are teeming with scarred warriors, kaiila, clad Kajir slaves, dour free women, haruspexes and domesticated sleen. All Tuchuk men are expected to defend their encampment, so there are no castes as such, but clans, such as healers, leather workers and salt seekers exist, including the clan of torturers. The Tuchuk warrior prays to the 'Spirit of the Sky' on kaiila-back with his weapons at hand, demanding victory and luck for themselves, defeat and misery for their enemies, primarily Turia. '...chief of the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from which falls the rain that, in his myths, formed the earth, the bosks, and the Tuchuks.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 12, 21,27, and 28.
Kassar
: one of the 4 Tribes of the Wagon Peoples, they are are known as the Blood People. Their standard is a scarlet three-weighted bola, hanging from a lance. Their brand, which is used on both slaves and bosk, is a stylized representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 14
Kataii
: one of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples. The Kataii are black-skinned. Their standard is a yellow bow, bound across a black lance. Their brand is a yellow bow, facing to the left.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 14
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Men of Torvaldsland, creation of
-(legend): according to Gorean legend, man was formed from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns by the Priest-Kings. In Torvald legend, man was formed from the hoe, water, and salt by the Gods to serve as their slaves. Those of Torvaldsland share an addendum to this story. One of the Gods, curious, careless, or, perhaps angry, threw his own axe to the ground and poured paga and his own blood upon it. The axe laughed, lept up and fled so fast no Gods could catch him. He became the father of the men of Torvaldsland.
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, pages 257-258
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Red Hunters
: the men of the polar basin, of Indian heritage and similar physically, but culturally distinct from the Red Savages of the Barrens. Their babies are born with a blue spot at the base of their spine. They live as nomads, dependent on the migrations of tabuk, and the sea sleen. The Red Hunters refer to themselves as the Innuit, which, in their tongue means, 'The People'. They are few in number, and live in scattered, isolated, communities. Culturally, they tend to be gentle, kindly and friendly, even to strangers. .
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, pages 36, 155-156, and 188-189
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Red Savages
: the peoples to inhabit the plains area (Barrens) of Gor. they are racially and culturally distinct from the Red Hunters of the north, being a more slender, longer-limbed people. They are nomadic, their culture being based on the kaiila and the gigantic herds of trident-horned kailiauk. They are further distinguished by cunning, ruthlessness and ferocity. They live to hunt and for internecine warfare, which seems to serve almost as a sport and religion. Their common hatred is for the white man, which takes precedence over all other conflicts. See: Memory, the
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 35
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Just a reminder of the next meeting for the planning of the new Gor room.
Planning members - date and time as follows:
Saturday, February 3rd
6:00 p.m. Pork time (Central)
Lar-Torvis
Password is the same as last weeks
Look forward to seeing each of you there. Thanks for all your help and the great ideas.
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The planning of the new room is going great. we've had two planning sessions so far and they've been very productive and fun.
Last evening we finally decided on the 'location' - it will be near the city of Ko-ro-ba so we'll adopt the customs of that area and people.
whispers in the dark has taken on the responsibility of developing the webpage and i was very very glad to give that up... i'm novice...at best...~s. we hope to have the basic page ready by next week so that you can see what's being planned and perhaps pique your interest.
we're targeting the first Saturday evening in March as the official opening of the room. It may be opened before...but this will be the official start.
The next meeting will be
Saturday, February 10th
6:00 p.m. Pork time
Lar-Torvis
This will be an open planning meeting and the room will be un-locked ...so if you're curious or have some experience in the ways of Gor...please feel free to look in...~s
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| I would suggest you set it in an insane asylum. It seems germaine.
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Just a reminder...
Saturday, February 10th
6:00 p.m. Pork time
Lar-Torvis
This will be an open planning meeting and the room will be un-locked ...so if you're curious or have some experience in the ways of Gor...please feel free to look in...~s
This message was edited by tangled on 2-10-07 @ 3:08 PM
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Due to an urgent offline situation, tonights meeting is cancelled and will be rescheduled.
I'm very sorry for the short notice.
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airmid....i'm sorry... i'm so far behind with everything...in the middle of a huge audit at work. i am taking the weekend off though so i'll check everyone's availability to meet this weekend.
thank you for the continued interest...i promise...we'll get there...~smiles..smooches you
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The new room is being put on hold...right now for an indefinite period of time due to offline time constraints and demands
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