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Post by volante{Kyr} on Apr 9, 2007 12:10:39 GMT -5
This is a rather fun game, and one all can enjoy. It begins with a question, either straightforward or in the form of a riddle. The first one to find the answer and supply the quote (preferrably with book and page number) wins and then goes on to ask the next question or riddle. Keep it challenging! Hints: - Try and find questions with one right answer
- Check back frequently if you posted the question, so you can confirm the answer is the correct one and not hold up the game for others
- Try and avoid including words in your question or riddle that can be easily searched through using 'find'. Make'em work for it!
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Post by volante{Kyr} on Apr 9, 2007 12:17:53 GMT -5
A prison without walls, surrounded by death, heat scorching lungs with every breath. Slaves of slaves, no women found, minerals brought from underground. Where is this?
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Post by dew{BT} on Apr 9, 2007 22:22:18 GMT -5
Mistress, it is the salt mines of Klima. There are no Free at Klima, only slaves, only men. Minerals found underground is the salt from flooding and dredging or from the crusts. It is a prison, yet any may leave of their own choice, but none choose to as it is in the middle of the desert, no kaiila are allowed and the slaves are all ignorant of Klima's location, as eyes are covered on the trek there. is dew right, Mistress?
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Post by teeya on Apr 9, 2007 23:45:08 GMT -5
teeya smiles to dew and offers...
"'In the pits,' he said, 'you pump water through underground deposits, to wash salt, with the water, to the surface, and repump again the same water. Men die at the pumps, in the heat. " Tribesmen of Gor, page 124
"Women are not permitted at Klima, lest men kill one another for them." Tribesmen of Gor, pages 117-118
"'You,' grinned T'Zshal, 'are the true slaves, for you are the slaves of slaves.' He laughed." Tribesmen of Gor, pages 242-243
"The surface temperature of the crusts would be in the neighborhood of 160 degrees." Tribesmen of Gor, p 231
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Post by dew{BT} on Apr 10, 2007 1:39:05 GMT -5
thank you sis, dew should have posted the quotes then, rather than trying to find a few more
In the distance, below, perhaps five pasangs away, in the hot, concave, white salt bleakness, like a vast, white, shallow bowl, pasangs wide, there were compounds, low, white buildings of mud brick, plastered. There were many of them. They were hard to see in the distance, in the light, but I could make them out. 'Klima,' said Hamid. ---Tribesmen of Gor, p 235
'The day at Klima,' he said, 'begins at dawn, and only ends at darkness. Food may be fried on the stones at Klima. The crusts are white. The glare from them can blind men. There are no kaiila at Klima. The desert, waterless, surrounds Klima, for more than a thousand pasangs on all sides. Never has a slave escaped from Klima. Among the less pleasant aspects of Klima is that you will not see females. You will note that, following your sentencing, the sight of such flesh has been denied you.... Tribesmen of Gor, p 125
We knew, generally, Red Rock, the kasbah of the Salt Ubar and such, lay northwest of Klima, but, unless one knows the exact direction, the trails, this information is largely useless. Even in a march of a day one could pass, unknowingly, an oasis in the desert, wandering past it, missing it by as little as two or three pasangs. Knowledge of the trails is vital. None at Klima knew the trails. The free, their masters, had seen to this. Moreover, to protect the secrecy of the salt districts, the trails to them were not openly or publicly marked. This was a precaution to maintain the salt monopolies of the Tahari, as though the desert itself would not have been sufficient in this respect. Tribesmen of Gor, p 243
I wondered how one might escape from Klima. Even if one could secure water, it did not seem one could, afoot, carry water sufficient to walk one's way free of the salt districts. And, even if one could traverse the many pasangs of desert afoot, there would not be much likelihood, in the wilderness, of making one's way to Red Rock, or another oasis. Those at Klima, by intent of the free, their masters, knew not the trails whereby their liberty might be achieved. I remembered, too, the poor slave who had encountered the chain on its march to Klima. He had been the subject of sport, then slain. None, it was said, had come back from Klima. Tribesmen of Gor, p 250
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Post by volante{Kyr} on Apr 10, 2007 15:12:59 GMT -5
chuckles... Correct!
Ok dew, you pose the next question or riddle
Good work on the quotes also teeya!
Everyone remember, in order to have the answer correct you have to have the answer and the quotes supporting it. Also feel free to invite all on Gor to enjoy and join in in the game.
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Post by dew{BT} on Apr 10, 2007 20:56:28 GMT -5
With prongs, just three, shown with pride, only here can they not hide. Each to their own, strangers beware, if not of the Caste, do take care. What of the prongs, which Caste, and where?
dew is going to tell her sisters, Mistress, it helps girls to have to think on their feet.
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Post by volante{Kyr} on Apr 10, 2007 21:32:46 GMT -5
hahaha this one is all mine!
Port Kars Caste of Thieves, and the small beautiful three pronged brand..
There is even, in Port Kar, a recognized caste of Thieves, the only such I know of on Gor, which, in the lower canals and perimeters of the city, has much power, that of the threat and the knife. They are recognized by the Thiefs Scar, which they wear as caste mark, a tiny three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and below the eye, over the right cheekbone. Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 104
-waits for it to be confirmmed before posting her next question -
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Post by dew{BT} on Apr 11, 2007 0:54:06 GMT -5
dew was looking for this second quote as well, Mistress:
"The caste of thieves was important in Port Kar, and even honored. It represented a skill which in the city was held in high repute. Indeed, so jealous of their prerogatives were the caste of thieves that they often hunted thieves who did not belong to the caste, and slew them, throwing their bodies to the urts in the canals. Indeed, there was less thievery in Port Kar than there might have been were there no caste of thieves in the city. They protected, jealously, their own territories from amateur competition." Hunters of Gor, pg.304
please, Mistress, dew is bouncing with excitement, waiting to see the next question. and she fully expected You or another of the Karians to get that one, Mistress, given the power of the Caste within Port Kar. *grins*
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Post by volante{Kyr} on Apr 11, 2007 2:18:25 GMT -5
They have hands and eyes. They come from eggs but have no mother.
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Post by Kyrerus con Kar on Apr 11, 2007 2:21:07 GMT -5
Those fucking Cosians.
"The men of Cos stink like sleen, and probably hatched from some Physician's Experiment gone HORRIBLE." -Kyrerus Meanie Jerk of Gor
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Post by volante{Kyr} on Apr 11, 2007 2:22:39 GMT -5
lol wronngggg!
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Post by dew{BT} on Apr 11, 2007 11:12:07 GMT -5
*giggles at Master Kyrerus*
dew thinks they are the Kurii, Mistress. The Kur have no mother because the egg carrier deposits it in the blood nurser, which seems to be a semi-sentient Kur. They have hands (and claws) and their eyes are round, given to yellowing when dehydrated.
“We have three, or, if you prefer, four sexes,” it said. “There is the dominant, which would, I suppose, correspond most closely to the human male. It is the instinct of the dominant to enter the killings and mate. There is then the form of the Kur which closely resembles the dominant but does not join in the killings or mate. You may, or may not, regard this as two sexes. There is then the egg carrier who is impregnated. This form of Kur is smaller then the dominant or the non dominant, speaking thusly of the non reproducing form of Kur.” “The egg carrier is the female,” I said. “If you like,” said the beast. “But shortly after the impregnation, within a moon, the egg carrier deposits the fertilized seed in the third form of Kur, which is mouthed, but sluggish and immobile. Those fasten themselves to hard surfaces, rather like dark, globular anemones. The egg develops inside the body of the blood nurser and, some months later, it tears its way free.” “It has no mother,” I said. “Not in the human sense,” it said. “It will however, usually follow, unless it itself is a blood nurser, which is drawn out, the first Kur it sees, providing it is either and egg carrier or a nondominant.” Beasts of Gor 369
It was not more than ten feet from me. It lifted its face from the half-eaten body of a man. Its eyes, large, round, blazed in the light of the torch. I heard the screaming of the bond-maids, the movements of their chains. Their ankles were held by their fetters. "Weapons!" cried the Forkbeard. "Kur! Kur!" I heard men cry. The beast stood there, blinking, bent over the body. It was unwilling to surrender it. Its fur was sable, mottled with white. Its ears, large, pointed and wide, were laid back flat against its head. It was perhaps seven feet tall and weighed four or five hundred pounds. Its snout was wide, leathery. There were two nostrils, slit like. Its tongue was dark. It had two rows of fangs, four of which were particularly prominent, those in the first row of fangs, above and below, in the position of canines; of these, the upper two were particularly long, and curved. Its arms were longer and larger than its legs; it held the body it was devouring in clawed, paw like hands, yet six-digited, extra jointed, almost like tentacles. It hissed, and howled and, eyes blazing, fangs bared, threatened us. Marauders of Gor, pages 108
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Post by volante{Kyr} on Apr 11, 2007 18:31:50 GMT -5
Bingo! Though there is a deeper reference to the 'hand' and 'eye'. Still the right answer though. Back to you dew!
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Post by dew{BT} on Apr 11, 2007 19:35:02 GMT -5
hmmmmmm, Mistress, dew didn't know the deeper reference. might You post it that a girl will know it next time, Mistress?
Coin of choice, if He has the skill, each Man of Them, does what He will. What saying then will fit the bill?
*smiles, thinking this one is an easy one*
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