September 28, 2007
Little Wars
The Slave Wars, incidentally, might be compared with the Kaiila Wars of the southern hemisphere. In the latter wars, fought among factions of the Wagon Peoples, the object, or principal object, was apparently the acquisition...
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September 26, 2007
She Wants To Ride My...
The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila.The kaiila is a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful long-necked and smooth gaited. It is a viperous...
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September 25, 2007
Diamonds For a Slave
He pointed to the necklace. "It is beautiful, is it not?" he asked."Yes," I said."It will buy ten bosks," said he, "twenty wagons covered with golden cloth, a hundred she-slaves from Turia."I looked away."Do you not covet...
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September 24, 2007
The Shrew
"Aphris looked about her. She lifted her head, and I could see the lovely line of her nose beneath the veil of white silk trimmed with gold .She sniffed twice. Then she clapped her little gloved hands twice and the feast...
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September 23, 2007
Abigail's Moon Calendar
The women of the Wagon Peoples, incidentally, keep a calendar based on the phases of Gor's largest moon, but this is a calendar of fifteen moons, named for the fifteen varieties of bosk, and functions independently of the...
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September 21, 2007
Trading
I had learned, to my surprise, that trade did occasionally take place with Turia. Indeed, when I had learned this, it had fired my hopes that I might be able to approach the city in the near future, hopes which, as it turned...
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September 17, 2007
The Year of the Paravaci's Tooth
"There were a large number of tethered animals about the outer edge of the circle, and, beside them, stood many haruspexes. Indeed, I supposed there must be one haruspex at least for each of the many altars in the field....
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September 16, 2007
Kurt the Kassar
The warrior of the Wagon Peoples seldom approaches an enemy more closely than is required to bring him down with the bow, or if need be, the lance; the quiva itself is regarded, on the whole, as more of a missile weapon...
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September 15, 2007
The Roasting
"The Wagon Peoples grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing as we know it. They are herders and it is said, killers. They eat nothing that has touched the dirt. They live on the meat and milk of the bosk. They are among...
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September 14, 2007
First Offering
"The animals sacrificed, incidentally, are later used for food, so the Omen Taking, far from being a waste of animals, is actually a time of feasting and plenty for the Wagon Peoples..." (Nomads of Gor)When I rode into the...
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September 13, 2007
The Hunt
"I am Harold of the Tuchuks," he said, "I am a skilled tarnsman, I have ridden over a thousand tarns. I have spent more time in the tarn saddle than most men on their feet. I was conceived on tarnback, I was born on tarnback....
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September 12, 2007
Herds
"Are the bosk well?""As well as can be."(Nomads of Gor)Winter comes soon. Before we head north with the bosk herd, their grazing territory widens. I and the others must ride out now as far as the eye can see, and even farther...
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September 11, 2007
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