Bows of Sa Jerag

Sa Jerag offers two lines of bows, one is the famous Infinity, its an established brand, low lag scripted and primmed, professionally done and known all over Gor.

The other line of bows are our bows: We used a large array of means to reduce lag, because in our experience we often battle in numbers, not alone and lag will always be an issue. For that reason low lag and high efficiency is emphasized over ‘gadgets’ that are rarely used in the field.

What makes our bows special?

1. They have a very low primmed design, made in and made for the jungles of Gor.

2. Our bows are unique in size and shape, made for girls, made by girls

3. The script is optimized for performance in high lag:

3.1 efficient, very short and effective programming, split into very short loops below a task linking umbrella script

3.2 Additional Ultra Low lag function that is reduced to fire and hit, to perform under the very worst conditions

4. Short range arrow with an arched hit vector to shoot behind foothills or other ground obstacles

5. The Short range arrow is shooting faster but speeds along its vector slightly slower than the long range arrow! Why? It gives the gorean meter script more time to confirm a successful hit: While arrows are only delayed 0.2 m in the 0.8 m avatar sculpt pipe of a running avatar the time to register is increased about 30%, thus giving you a large advantage as registering is vastly improved in laggy conditions and more arrows upon arrows are released in short range in rapid succession, even faster than in long range

6. you can choose 5 different soundsets, so your shots are audibly registering

7. reddish low range and blueish long range arrows indicate instantly if you use the right arrow for the individual combat situation

8. sculpted arrows carved from a sculpt large enough to give your shots a realistic impact but with an arrow – avatar size ratio as derived from a north American Indian museum to give your duels a maximized realistic experience.

9. delayed avatar pipe arrow rezzing and aim swapping at ultra short distances give you an edge even at melee fighting distances

10. the autofire self detect function takes the stress of pressing another button during combat away from you: Simply keep your mouse button pressed down and the bow auto-switches to the optimum fire rate within the gorean meter framework, a must- have for low range combative situations, where all your arrows hit

11. Scripted for Gorean Meter only. It reduces lag.

12. Mono compiled: Mono enables the sim server to summarize multiple scripts into one operation, thus reducing lag when masses of arrows fly: When you shoot a series of arrows you will see that the first arrow flies slightly different than the following ones: That’s one of the Effects of Mono that you witness.

This bow will be continuously updated with latest add ons as they come from your input.

Currently Version 2.31 will be replaced by Version 2.32 with latest fixes

have a look: Try it out!

Cathli&Larah

Taluna emote

...dreamfully approaches the red rose that grows on the large bush..its scent and colour enchanting her senses..a smile on her lips...looks around through the dense underbrush of the tropical wilderness...slips a finger into her mouth...licks her finger...runs it down over her chin...her throat...arches her back...runs her finger down her cleavage...her belly...leaving a wet trail...goosebumps rising....mmmmh...suddenly reaches behind her back and RIPS her gleaming scimitar out and SLASHES at the bushes and SCREAMS in frustration:'where is HE? my Prince, my Master, my King, my Hero who is wild and strong enough to hold ME tight?'...hisses and SCREAAAAAAAMS and whirls like a furious dancer, her little feet drumming the ground as she whirls! whirls! whirls! hacking and lashing out at the lush green vegetation! leaves, wooden sticks, flowers falling and she dances with her glittering blade like a blur around her, FURIOUSLY letting out the suffering of a Taluna of Gor, her slender brown arm balancing her movements behind her...and suddenly stops!...the blade dropping from her slender little hand...kneels...a little mound on the ground...her face covered by the veil of her hair...tears tracing a wet path down her cheek...leaving black trails of coal eyeliner on her cheeks...splishing on her breasts...tries to blink them away to be able to see again...so full of unfulfilled desire...gulps a sob down...then gathers her strength again and splashes her face with water, cleans up the mess...rises and fast little feet carry her to her camp swiftly...a smile on her face when she sees her Talunas in warpaint...fixing tips of iron to their arrows...crouching low...painting a pattern into the sand for them and with an icy voice she whispers...'Sssissssterssss: tonight there will be WAR!...my scout: let us know, go, my Tor and roll the wardrums, we gather the tribes! pass me my wristband of steel for a shield, when the sun dawns in the grey morning, we will fill the air with our shrill warcries! ...then she leans back and awaits for the events to unfold...closing her eyes...and whispers to her Sisters...'today, Sisters...we will hunt for MEN!'...and she smiles gently as she sees her Sisters giggle and excited voices fill the air like tinkling glass!

Inventory structure

1. The problem
2. The mom- system
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Creating a structure
2.2.1 The secret weapon for speed: Special purpose folder
2.3 Keeping it dynamic
3. Sorting procedure
3.1 tricks
4. Inventory vacuum cleaner- dynamic inventory management
5. Standard second life folders
5.1 Landmarks
5.2 Notecards
5.3 special interests
5.3.1 soft spots
5.3.2 Newbie folder
6. Tips n tricks
6.1 A motivator
6.2 time management
6.3 Elaborate your system
6.3.1 Create personal huds and attachments
6.3.2 Create a warehouse object
7. Summary

1. The problem

oh YES! its an issue: Our Inventories start so innocently..there are some cute lil folders inside and our first skirt comes in a box, which we open and it puts a lil folder into our inventory with a landmark of the shop, a nice pic, the skirt itsself, a notecard how to fit it to our avatar and a notecard about other products the shop can offer.

that adds 6 items into our inventory, it’s a black mini skirt and it is called roxie’s.

We meet our first 5 people and each gives us a funny gesture and a freebie mini skirt too and an interesting lm for a nice place.

that adds 40 items to our inventory

Soon our inventory holds 10.000 items

That’s how it starts

now we want to wear our first mini skirt again: where was that cute lil thing?...grrr…we forgot…we type ‘mini’ in search…and Yvonne s mini- pull, a mini- car, a miniature and mini’s hair come up, but not our mini- skirt…

since we don t remember its name, we can t find it. Its gone, but it adds to the mess of our inventory, cause we can t find a thing anymore…a pity…cause we paid 200L for that lil roxie’s and it WAS a cute affair. So we tell our friends that sl ate it and grumbling we choose another.

Now lets get out of that mess. But how?

2. The mom- system

2.1 Introduction

We go by a proven model, well established and first implemented by MOM?...no its not an abbreviation, I mean your mom! grins! remember when she came up with these boxes and made you put your stuff in there?

Did you ever wonder why the number of boxes never really increased? Remember the cartons in the cellar? remember your little cousin wearing that dress that you wore once?

We go by that system. Its proven. And it works just as well in Second Life.

Remember those few folders we had at the beginning? Many items still go in there, magically and without sorting

Folders like

Clothes

Notecards

Scripts

Sounds

and so on

We leave these, for the beginning, later we address them again. Right now we start with the BIG moves, finetuning is for later.

2.2 Creating a structure

First we add to the mess and create folders

I give you my folder- structure, then you have an example to go by:

The messiest group of items is around apparel. So we start with that:

Larah

-----------casual

-----------current

-----------dancing

-----------lingerie

-----------Gorean

--------------------Freewoman

--------------------Taluna

--------------------Silks

----------------------------------black

----------------------------------white

----------------------------------others

--------------------Gorean objects

-----------Gowns

-----------Shoes

--------------------Shoes

--------------------Boots

-----------Hair

--------------------Long

----------------------------------Dark

----------------------------------Blond

--------------------Short

----------Skins

----------2007

----------2008

----------Weapons

--------------------Gorean

--------------------Others

-----------kinky

-----------Home

------------------furnies

------------------plants

------------------transport

------------------drapes

-----------Gadgets

------------------jewelry

------------------attachments

------------------party

The rule is that NOTHING that is not sorted in the general folders like pics, textures or objects is allowed to go into the general inventory.

2.2.1 The secret weapon for speed: Special purpose folder

There is a special folder in it: its called ‘current’

I put EVERYTHING I mostly wear into that folder, including ao, hair, huds, skin, shape

The trick of that folder is, that if I ever need to dress in a hurry, I can simply push that folder from the inventory onto my avatar with the mouse, and EVERYTHING I usually need is retrieved, including ao, huds, hair , jewelry, with only one click

2.3 Keeping it dynamic

From today on you sort every item that does not vanish in a folder into this structure. So you stopped further messing

Then we create another folder, we call it the current date:

Larah 09/09

First we shovel every folder in the inventory into the one with the date, but leave the original type specific ones, like scripts, landmarks, friends

Now our inventory if you close all the folders is really short:

it has the type oriented folders, and the folder Larah

that’s all

Now the laborious task begins when we sort every folder or item from the folder Larah 09/09 into the Larah structure. It needs time, but its funny cause you suddenly find things you thought were gone and you become aware what you own. Saves you a lot of shopping!

3. Sorting procedure

Sometimes it needs a bit of pondering where an object belongs to. I give you a few examples:

First I name the item, then the folder

jeans - casual

flower tattoo – Taluna

thigh high boots – shoes - boots

realistic nipples – kinky

polar bear fur – Home- furnies

red rose – Home- plants (except gifts, see below)

red rose worn in hair – Gadgets - jewelry

silver mini dress – dancing

Ladder 10m long – weapons- Gorean

barrel of paga Gorean –Gorean objects

leather canoe – Home – transport

dancing cow – Gadgets - Party

3.1 tricks

Now you ll moan and tell me that sorting needs AGES?

here is another trick:

You name every folder and every object you get with the correct folder name you want to put it in

later you simply type ‘folder name’ in the search line and shove all the objects that are called ‘folder name’ into the ‘folder name’ folder. That speedens the sorting up

For that reason my roxie is now called roxie black mini casual, because that’s where it is located, but I made it a bit more descriptive too: What the hell is roxie??? now if I want to wear a mini, I look into casual, see the black roxie mini and wear it. simple. I know where it is and I know what it is

4. Inventory vacuum cleaner- dynamic inventory management

The folder Larah 09/09 now empties itself. items that are doubly in will be deleted, items that you really don t need much are simple left in there.

at the 1^st of October you create another folder: Larah 09/10

now and then you shovel all unsorted folders and items in there.

but you have a folder more in your inventory

After 3 months that’s 3 folders with a timestamp on them. Every item you needed these past 3 months is not in them anymore, but well sorted into the folder structure. The remainder was simply unused for 3 months? That’s a reason to delete the folder!!! you need not be brave, delete it. Your inventory keeps it for you in the trash bin, its not gone

The trash bin is a wonderful thing. You do not empty it frequently, everything you deleted is still there and can be retrieved. That soothes the nerves. However after a while you noticed you never retrieved anything?

yeah, empty the trash bin

Now we have a good inventory structure for apparel. The bulk of the work is done.

And we solved another problem: We all mess each other up! We get sent unwanted freebies, we set out prims and retrieve them again (it copies!), we take part in snowball- systems like ‘I pinch you’, we are victims of notecard and landmark- givers if we accidentally accept. All these are automatically gone as time moves on and they step by step vanish into our trash bin since we did not sort them in. They come and go, and we are never messed up anymore.

5. Standard second life folders
5.1 Landmarks

Here we just make a folder III/09

Whenever you actually USE a landmark, you push it in there. Places can always be found by ‘search’ its not a risk at all. So after a week you simply delete ALL the landmarks, the essential ones are in the folder III/09 which is a subfolder in the landmark folder. Since you get constantly spammed with landmarks, they all land in the landmark folder. If you get a landmark and use it first time, do not sort it in. If you use it twice, move it over into III/09

The remainder gets emptied now and then into the trash bin. In time you make yourself a folder IV/09 and emtpy the folder III/09 into the general landmark- folder. Landmarks you use, are transferred to IV/09, the rest will eventually be deleted. That way you have a folder of about 100 landmarks that you need.

5.2 Notecards

Here the structure is really simple

You create special interest folders, for me that is a Sa Jerag Folder for example and I have a Folder for each friend and I have a folder called ‘my folder’

if a notecard is called ‘New Note’ it’s a reason to delete it. If you really intended to keep it you would have named it. So we start with deleting all New Notes, and while we are currently happily deleting away we also delete all the objects called ‘Object’ and every item called ‘Demo’ and all the scripts called ‘New Script’

However, Notecards, pictures and textures are your own personal history book. Deleting is not really an option. But you are also happily sent items all the time, someone you barely know sends you 10 pics of himself…it would be rude to decline them. So you accept them but do not put them into your inventory after you looked at them and instead press delete. Some are from good friends. I put these into a folder called ‘People I know’. However, as I mentioned before, I have folders for very good friends. In the Notecards folder. I put their pics in there too.

Since your pictures are your history you have no option but to name them all. Deleting pictures is mostly no option. So you name them, else you never find a thing. Mostly it will be pics with people, they should appear in the name.

Usually you get 5 items per hour into your inventory while you are online. Naming and filing them away needs about 10 seconds each, its not much time.

5.3 special interests

Now each of us has special interests, of course a builder will have a good structure in objects and sculpts and textures.

For me that is my tribe and I have a deeply sorted Folder and Sub- Folder system for Sa jerag.

Most of what I create are notecards. These are all named and filed away in 'my folder'.

I also script: Scripts and objects that belong to the scripts are filed away in folders that are named as the project and are all in another folder that I call 'business' cause most of the scripts I make are for sale.

5.3.1 soft spots

Most of us have our soft spots too. Items that are entirely useless but you simply CAN T delete them. If you are one of those, you create a folder for your soft spot. I can t delete roses, for example: I CAN T!!!!!!!

So when I get the umpenth ‘red rose’ I rename it, red rose from X and put it into my folder: flowers n such

For that same reason however I rename a poem someone sends me into ‘poem from X flower’

then it goes into the flowers folder too, also the teddy bears, the pink hearts. But not the wedding invitation: It stays in the folder Larah 09/09, cause it lost its purpose, once the wedding is over :)

Its easy, but it means a lot if you meet someone after months and you can quote from a poem that person sent you. It proves you cared for the poem. If someone makes a poem or a dance for you it’s a wonderful gift. Obviously you need to be able to retrieve it in a matter of seconds.

5.3.2 Newbie folder

Of course you can make a yard sale now and then. You get some return on stuff that you purchased, and you remove objects from your inventory. However usually it’s a waste of time: You can achieve a max of 10% of the original price and items that are really only junk won t ever get sold and eventually end up in your inventory again.

copy and transfer items won t ever leave your inventory at all. That applies for no- transfer items too.

The quality of products rises in time, hair and skins become realistic, shoes are now usually sculpted including the foot to make for a better fit.

But by purchasing an item because of a general step up in quality the other is not entirely outdated. It can still be worn.

Put items that you deem useful for someone who has nothing into a newbie folder. Put your name on it, give it a structure, name what you put in there appropriately and pass it on as a folder, to not mess up THEIR inventory. And make it fit together. If you are usually on gor it should have at least one complete outfit including hair and shoes.

Don t restrict it to dress or huds, put notes into it as well, like low lag setting procedures, like basic scripts that have a multi-purpose use, landmarks of general interest, or even this note *winks*

From now on, by simply passing the appropriate folder on you can help someone along without messing them up. Since its structured, you set an example how its done and make it easily accessible, adding value by doing so. Give it your name: People who have similar interests always meet again. Since you put your name on it, you may be rewarded with a smile :)

6. Tips n tricks
6.1 A motivator

Starting active inventory management is a major project: Set yourself a goal! Once my inventory had more than 20.000 items I defined 18.000 as my magic barrier. I went through my inventory again and again until I finally got it down to 18.000. Most of it is done by deleting copies of course.

Now I m up again to 19.000. Hmmm…time to sort my inventory. However I do not delete my notes, or friendlist- cards and I do not delete scripts I made: How can I get down to 18k again? Now I do not only get stuff I don t ever want to delete anymore, I also get stuff that outdates. Non- flexi hair for example. The keyword ‘Jeans’ comes up with 20 pairs, I wear only two of these...weapons for meters that do not exist anymore…and so on…

6.2 time management

But we NEVER have time for that!!!!! shhhhh…hugs you...10 min a day…that’s all you need to sort 360 objects a day. More than you get. Give your inventory 10 min a day and you ll always be the winner. If you want to get it done in a single day you would despair.

6.3 Elaborate your system

In time you ll find out that a folder advances to more than 50 subfolders. You re in danger of losing your grip on that folder then: split it up, create subfolders!

6.3.1 Create personal huds and attachments

If you love dancing as much as I do, you buy dances. These all go into the ‘Animations’ folder of your inventory. You put the dances you like into a dances- folder. But you need them all the time since you dance a lot, so its better if you create yourself a little prim with a funny dancer on it, script yourself a menu and put all your dances in there. Then if you want to dance you click on that prim and select one of your dances with your menu. If you can t script, take an existing hud and put them in there. If you can afford it, buy a dance hud and keep your dances there and share them with friends. Now you have a dance hud instead of 40 dances! and they re all there.

You think that may be too laggy? If that is the case because you are also fighting a lot, put the dance hud into another Special purpose folder (see 2.2.1), together with your favourite skin, shape, hair, and dancing dress.

6.3.2 Create a warehouse object

Sometimes you may want to share things. How about if you build yourself a little library, if it’s textured nicely its only one prim. Put it into your home or office, put a library script in and let everyone use your library too. You keep a copy of that library in your inventory. Now instead of a mulititude of notecards, you have a library. Looks good, works perfectly, is nice to have, well sorted and reduces the number of items in your inventory.

Create picture books! If you had a wonderful period you want to keep, make yourself a book, put your pics in. Then you have them all well sorted in one object that you can share with friends.

Cath and me made a picture book of our first island. I look at it now and then and remember wonderful times.

7. Summary

If you look at your expenses in second life, a considerable chunk of them appears as inventory. It’s a WEALTH. Without proper management your investments are partly wasted as you do not have easy access of your purchases. However the tools to access it are in our hands. It’s a fair guess that an unmanaged inventory swallows about 30% of your investments as you are unable to retrieve them again in time. Or you simply forgot that you own them and purchase a similar item instead of using what you have. Next time you purchase an item that costs 1000L, you either file it away or it costs you 1300L, because chances are high that you won t find it again in 6 months time: Inventory management PAYS!

Getting the process of a dynamic inventory management going is an investment in time. However by a rapid access to all your items you get that time back doubly: Whenever you search for an item that is not properly filed away, you waste time. Whenever you need to wear an item to know what it is, you just prove your filing system does not yet fully work: With a good inventory management you KNOW what the item is without trying it on or out.

Larah ©

...account report -09-08-28

thank you so much for your sweet help in financing our sim.

August was a quiet month, Gor crawling along. Much of it is due to me scripting and being a bit of a stay at home. I was taking a holiday of the gorean tide: Now and then someone on Gor becomes fashionable for us and a caravan of single panthers file in during the day to become captured there, then ask to be rescued. They continue to walk in there night for night until the group targeted has enough. The result is diminishing roleplay and increasing drama, whining and bans until the place shuts its gates for us. We battled the askari and thule every night until it became a routine, then the pearl until even the very last sister notices that they do not roleplay with us anymore. Some groups are aware of this mechanism and squeeze a captured panther out quickly.

Maybe the time is right for some other roleplay? How about a crusade for some population or environmental pressure like a drought?

back to our sim, the tier was due the 28th, special thanks to

darren
isalia
livia
phoebe

for your generous donations of 3100 L$

Thank you also to everyone who purchased items from my shops and to everyone who purchased my services: I am aware that all of you are purchasing my services and my products to support our sim. It is 1260 L$ this month. Lovers of Gor is YOUR home!

I m always in your debt

Larah

voices in the night...

I dreamt of You last night..I dreamt I were
out on gor…a risky place…captures, fighting, hissing, screams everywhere…every day…the gorean tide…the raids rolling in …men grabbing their girls for the night…shouting and fighting …and suddenly…YOU were there…You ve seen me and I cringed in Your brightness…in Your appearance…in Your proud self assured way…truth and honesty…so natural…so self assured...so Dominant...I can t stand on my feet anymore…defenseless...

spellbound...see it coming...the battling noises only a background hiss of the surf of the sea...

and I stare...like the rabbit looks at the tiger…approaching me...SO much fear!...fear fear fear...I see it coming!...

like a rolling giant thundering wave, foam sizzling on its sky- high crest, dark and elegant…so strong…so forceful, so sure of its course…so uncaring in its care...whirling me around...grabbing me, making me obey, commanding…and I struggle to come up, to breathe to resist!!...still hissing!..the resistance weakening…pleading…

PLEASE DON T DROWN ME! PLEASE
LET ME BREATHE

until subspace lurks and an inner calmness washes over me…where is up?…where is down?...flooooaaating…dreaming…I let go...I let it happen…am I falling?…it hurts not...oh no, not at all...relax in your fear...

tears welling up in my eyes...relax...

its only fear...let it happen…my blood rushing into my lower belly…arching my throat...vulnerable…”aye, I will…aye, I submit…aye, whatever You wish”…its done

for no reason I am proud...its done...

to me…I m innocent…a world shrinking to the length of my chain…my awareness ending where the length of my chain ends..its all I ever knew…found my dedication…where am I?...little me in wonderland…so naturally kneeling...did I ever stand?....sooo welcome…so pleasant…so right to do…wear loving silks and kneel, spread my knees..I m not ashamed...its done to me...my legs are open…enter me, make me scream, skewer me, I live for you! and hold TIGHT...wet my lips…breathe…open for love…easy access, open to be taken…and offering my FIRE, my URGE, my NEED, my sweetness and romantic

dances…little daisy on the sunny meadow…sensual serves, hot kisses at night and my writhing moaning body in the furs…my very self, hidden me but always there…ready to take over…lost to the world…found myself… my heart beating up to my throat and the full depth of my submission opens up wide and far to the sun...to be pleasant, to entertain, to be loyal, to praise my Owner, look up in admiration and desire with tears of trust in my eyes and push all my devotion to make it a heaven…make it last…floating along with the current…

washed here and there…never caring…I m made to…emotion is my realm…



voices in the night…I m listening...

whispers in the wind...

'it is a beautiful moment when a woman realizes that..who owns her is her love Mistress, and the Mistress realizes the girl she bought, looking up at her, tears in her eyes, is Her love slave' (adapted from Beasts of Gor, Pg.236)

however, John Norman published his work 40 years ago, and misconceptions about women are what make his books susceptible to critique: it is NOT a male virtue to lovingly care and accept the power exchange that is typical for a working D/s relationship. Femaleness expresses itsself in many ways and it is a VERY female attribute to care and love and nurture and teach...the ability to conceive the love and trust given..to wield it for the best of Mistress and sub...are very female in nature...the sensitivity for emotions and love, mixed with a superior understanding of the submissives expressions can intensify the D/s relationship...the deeper understanding of the emotions involved being part of her natural feminity that simply leave no doubt about her Leadership and enable her to Dom so very superbly..causing the sub to excel her own abilities for the deep sense of safety in her helpless devotion, allowing her to submit with all her heart in the awareness that she is known inside out...

it is this awareness of her femininity that awakens an awareness of my submission i ve never known...her natural self confidence that she wields as lightly as a feather that crashes down on me like a thunderstorm, leaving me in a whirl of emotions every description would fail at...

her mastering me makes me forget my hot tears dripping on my hands on the keyboard as well as my giggles and sighs of love or stunned silence that rises goosebumps all over my body in my admiration of her and my desire to be pleasant for her and to a state of constant alertness and an inner consciousness of a deep devotion for her...

however...mostly I simply can't understand how she guides me...I kneel because it is the natural thing to do...I need not understand...I simply do...


...and end in helplessly stammering

Capsluts

What does that term mean?
the Urban Wikipedia defines

Capsluts:
Refers to a female (or male) who continually texts/calls a member of the opposite (or same) sex whom they wish to fornicate with obsessively […]

Generally that would not desirable for members of a Taluna tribe from the Tribe's perspective. The nature of a Taluna tribe implies that free women are living together in the jungles, hunt together, live together and act as a group and avoid bringing their Sisters into unnessessary danger. Capsluts according to the above definition could rather submit with the benefit of a continuous sexual availability.

However there is a slightly different definition in our sl gor: Here the term ‘Capslut’ refers to a Gorean who desires to be captured and calls another gorean to ‘come and get her’ or walks into or stays purposefully in a situation where a capture is probable.

Obvious signs are lingering on the battlefield after raids, the approach of opposing groups without disguise or using offensive language and behaviour towards members of opposing groups without care for consequences and without sufficient back up in numbers or outstanding battle skill.

Capture in ‘hostile’ environments e.g. fortresses or cities of opposing groups without the ability to actually win a battle, or starting raids in vastly inferior numbers are other outward signs for a desire to be captured.

Capture roleplay generally makes the captured person available to the capturer in the framework of her limits. A very slack set of limits allows for more brutality and bestiality, unlimited time for a long duration of captivity.

Since a tribe is a close- knit community the tribe members are soon to notice and may draw back in their efforts to raid or trade that tribe member out, since she will usually be captured again soon enough anyways.

Since every captive, no matter how she behaves is the 'receiving' part of a roleplay, a desire for a pride show e.g. Sisters raiding in large numbers is preferred. Very large groups with good defenses are frequented more as massive raids are more probable. However, rescue operations, be it trades or raids are the killer of good roleplay that they interrupt. Sooner or later the capturers will tire of it and squeeze the captive out. The efforts of the capturer to reward his or her captive with quality roleplay inside the framework of the personal limits would be wasted.

Now and then a a capture roleplay is of an excessive nature. However, if the captive did not limit that in her profile, it can be assumed that she is entirely comfortable with it. Excessive roleplay is therefore no reason to end it prematurely.

Since in sl capture times and limits and even preferences can be defined in the set of personal limits there is no need for rescue operations at all: If a captive does not limit her time of captivity she obviously does not need her captivity to be limited in its duration and is happy with any length of time.

Tribes that excessively raid for members with an unusual frequency of captivity will sooner or later overdo: The capturers tire of interrupted roleplay and give up on their efforts for quality and the members of the groups capturer and captive belong to either complain or do not join anymore in frequent raids of the same people for the personal preferences of a few.

The consequence is unnecessary drama between the groups.

Since capture roleplay DOES happen to ‘innocent’ tribe members that are not defined in this post it is for the tribe leaders to decide if any rescue is appropriate. A Sister who is frequently captured by the same people should definetly rather rp her captivity out and enjoy it in its full duration rather than be rescued and be captured again.

Another aspect of the tribe leadership deciding individually IF and WHEN a rescue is appropriate may well be an added thrill for the captive. Also, every capture roleplay becomes stale after a while and the capturer will slacken the defenses of his roleplay: It is frequently far easier to win a rescue operation or get an easy trade after a few days of captivity. It will therefore be frequently in the best interest of the tribe to let a capture rp run for a length of time.

Sa- Jerag tribe leadership will keep track of who is captured for what time and by whom to enhance the quality of gorean capture roleplay for everyone to enjoy. I will now and then post that list in this blog.

Despite all the above mentioned, please remember: There is nothing wrong with capture rp! ENJOY!!!!! Its one of the pillars of sl- gor: Capture rp is meant to run for a length of time as an erotic twosome for the partners in roleplay to get to know each other and find love. The captive also gets insight into other groups and new ideas to enhance her own roleplay. You are a roleplayer in a different group and on a different sim for the duration of your roleplay, which is part of the fun.

II. ‘Capsluts’ approaching the tribe

Frequently wandering male goreans approach the tribe in different ways to be captured (female goreans never do that to my experience, they rather come as slaves, dressed in silks). It is understandable. However, before we begin capture roleplay we should consider:

- none of us volunteered as slaver or FG. It demands considerable dedication to train slaves in their behaviour and guide them through the network of ‘Orders’ and ‘limitations’. Sa Jerag is no place for tribe Kajiri until a slaver and a FG can be appointed

- Sa Jerag has two active Mistresses. Contact them first before you make a slave if you do not wish to keep him/ her yourself

- as a capturer it is your prerogative to decide if and what kind of roleplay you offer. Our tribe prides in quality rp, please make sure you have the time and dedication for it.

- If you start rp with an incoming wanderer looking to be captured, please be aware that the captive may ask his group for a rescue operation. Lovers of Gor is a homestead sim and not really suited for massive combative action. To avoid moaning, please consider to take your captive to a five- star sim.

- Captives taken during a raid are usually not what this post is about: Consider a timely release or a trade if you take captives at all and do not bring them to lovers of gor to avoid the massive lag during the ensuing raid.

- be fair: there are MASSES of bored subs on Gor: Instead of working an unwilling captive you may consider offering your collar to a kajira.

- make sure your captive is an adult. Let your captive confirm in IM or open chat. Beginning in August the sim NEEDS to be set to either payment on file or verified adult.

- captives on Lovers of Gor have the right to tp out ANYTIME and without reason given. We rp for captives to enjoy, they are in no way obliged to stay if they do not like it.

- we have no facilities on Lovers to keep captives over a lengthy period. Once any of the rp partners logs, the rp ends.

- make sure you are aware of the limits of your captive.

- if you hear any moaning about the direction the rp moves into, end it. That saves you unnecessary drama. A captive shall be fun, you are in no way obliged to ‘serve’ anyone with capture rp.