Who are you, wide- eyed wanderer of Gor, lost soul in the jungles?

A warning has been issued about this area: do not cross the bridge and river Nyoka into the dark evergreen rainforests: According to rumours, Talunas lurk in the dark!

BEWARE! Gorean from Port Schendi daring to enter the dark water dripping rainforests, luring you with their lush beauty, LISTEN to the drums and the sudden silence of the screeching monkeys overhead, YOU are an alien there!

you are SEEN! SMELLED! HEARD! there may be eyes out there, already watching you!

did you hear swiftly running little feet?..movement behind the bushes?...the slithering snake on your path? so small yet so poisonous?...the venomous spider in the branches overhead?...did you find their camp?...the fireplace only lukewarm?...did you hear a girls giggle?..or was it only water dripping?...rarely have they been seen!

mystic rituals, tattoos, piercings, mambas, kurii…the jungles are full of secrets…

anything weak is prey in the jungles…and rainforests never talk…

Taluna tribes move through this vast area from camp to camp, hunting, moving again a few days later…never here, never there, their possessions carried on their bodies, a fireplace and a leaf thatched hut for the night…set up and left behind on the move…a hunting tribe…the vast jungles are their fortress, the daily thunderstorm their ally, the steaming heat their dress, the drifting mists their veil, the murky swamps their path, the ash of a fireplace their makeup…

swiftly running feet in the jungles: when you hear them, its too late! surprise is their second name: SCREAM! when claws and teeth rip your body!!! a panther may leave you, a Taluna will not! and PRAY it is a Taluna and not a Mamba of Gor!

THEY!! SEE!! YOU!!!!

rp items...again!

Currently the production of some of the rp items has been shortened. however bosk stills comes on the market as a result of hunting...so far I observed that the rp items promoted:

1. The formation of very large groups.
Huge and allied outlaw groups milk the market and own these items in abundance. They have an awareness of their function of ‘milking’ however, and ‘prices’ for trades have not gone up too much, as many of the active smaller groups pay their ‘tax’ frequently. KCF invented the auction system, which resulted in friends coming to the auctions and pay all they have to KCF. Larger groups make their rounds on gor in a weekly cycle and get most of the rp items that were produced. The market is therefore partly swiped empty, and the large groups are content if at least one item of whatever kind is paid for a trade.

Economically expressed, the inventories of large outlaw groups are the main ‘sink’ of items, although we have no clear figures.

The intra- and inter- large- group trades may encounter inflation rates as many individuals there hoard thousands of these items in their inventories, while the smaller groups are quite poor. Groups that are raided less by escaping the attention of the very large groups and groups that are non combative are also experiencing some inflation, especially lifestylers that produce rp items.

2.Warfare
Since warring and accepting trades or auctions for captives are the easiest means to accumulate rp server items, warring has become a means to satisfy greed

3. Prolonged captivity time
Making captives as a source of ‘income’ has become more attractive. Since captives are now frequently kept as a means to get server items, the motivation to keep captives despite roleplay becoming stale has been enhanced: They are not kept to roleplay, they are kept for items. Therefore the motivation to release a captive without a trade has been reduced.

4.reduced value of kajirae
Since captives are made and kept in abundance, following the desire to ‘make server items’ the focus on ‘voluntary’ submissives has been reduced.

5.introduction of a black market
Frequently individuals who do not produce rp server items and who are not much in war own rp server items like ‘salt’ in abundance as a consequence of a black market of an exchange of items for linden.

positive effects are the introduction of

1.greed
Greed is depicted in the books and individuals becoming very rich in terms of server items are bringing us nearer to a gor by the books.

2. connection of power and wealth
with the introduction of server items group leaders of large groups are finally rewarded with wealth and can afford to pay their members an income in server items, thus further enhancing the size of the group and the income.

3. connection of trades and greed
trades are not only staged anymore, negotiations are frequently struggles of survival for the milked smaller groups

4. value of female fighters like in Mercenary, Pirate and Outlaw groups
Mixed shooter- and pew pew groups generate the largest income of server items. As in nature, survival of the fittest and the most agressive is promoted. Every bow counts.

However, despite all these fantastic developments, there are still some facets that should be straightened out:
Panther groups that dwell in the northern forests have 'blacksmith units'? I cannot imagine a group of Panthers producing charcoal and a Panther wielding a sledge hammer. Developments like that are clearly not by the books. Groups should only be allowed to produce what they CAN. Ultimately I propose that Panther, Outlaw, Mercenary or Taluna groups by the books sell slaves and should not have any producing unit at all. Production of goods is done in cities, Mercenaries are paid for their armed services and do not knit woolens :o.O: . Many taverns have a brewery unit instead of selling their beverages and maybe their services and PURCHASING ales.

Larah