Post by Joe MacBain on Apr 7, 2007 9:58:32 GMT -5
(04/07/07-07:24:09)
Kira
Property of Aliyyah, bought for two silvers
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- In or near a cage along the guarded perimeter of the market -
: says to Jarl Joe MacBainCompanio:.... "Greetings, Master." i said, my eyes lowered.
(04/07/07-07:24:51)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to KiraProperty of Aliyyah,:.... -I heard you but the offence and sting was still very fresh and I picked up a scroll and looked over the work that needed to be done-
(04/07/07-07:26:08)
Kira
Property of Aliyyah, bought for two silvers
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- In or near a cage along the guarded perimeter of the market -
: says to Jarl Joe MacBainCompanio:.... i knew i had behaved badly. His reaction was not surprising. i knew also that such behavior was now forever forbidden to me. i kept silent, and remained in tower.
(04/07/07-07:31:01)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -The day seemed rather quite and My temper and reslove required, like so many things, a recharge. Much had gone on in My life on the planet and like a serpant on the high crest of a wave a Captain either runs and is swolled by the wave or stands on the bow and roars His name at the heavens. The problem this leave is the people the Captain drags along with Him in the course of His actions and each Man has a responsiblity to those that He leads. I felt it right to question the choices I had made though I felt in My soul I was right to make them but the pain of the Ones You love or the back lash of the innocent was not something that went away quickly from My mind...I would calm My spirit and become again the Man I was before I was sent on the blood rage of Odin, the anger had served it's purpose and My resolve as strong as ever in the iron will but as for My actions to those that did not warrant My wrath then I would now take measures to see to that and who knows, perhaps at last get a good nights sleep-
(04/07/07-07:35:21)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -The small scroll in hand as I focus in the dim lights of the morning sun was hard going, I was still in the learning phase of reading Gorean, Torvaldian by birth and knowing only runes, it was Nyah My Mate and a Tuchuk that had began My teachings of the left to right and right to left scrawl of the common Goreans. I did have an advantage and that was communication, times for action are bound but without the right communication the right action for the wrong reasons could take place and death had no coming back. So I took the study as serious as I took My blade in My hand and the blood for My Foes. Still, I wanted to put the scroll down and have a drink, perhaps later for the drink and I took a solid breath and took the scroll up once more in My hands and began to read. I waved off the attentions of a serving girl that came over, pretty enough but nothing that I had seen a thousand times before or will again-
(04/07/07-07:39:33)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -I rubbed My left hand slowly down My cheek as I read the scroll that I was sent and could not help but think back the events of yesterday, how I became bored and even lost, how I let that anger and bordem wash over Me as the wave over the bow of a ship, the navigation lost for a ern. In that ern I could have killed and Man and took hostage a Woman that had never ment or done Me harm. Going about their business as they did and the fact that I was going to take, for what reason Joe? I asked Myself, because You could and You got bored with Gor. I came to think of My Fatrher, Garr and what His words had ment to Me. Just because You can does not always mean that You should. The better Your blade the more responsiblity You hold in that skill, face each Man as if it was a Man that could best You and treat Him with the respect that You would pay a famed Warrior, for the rules and laws that govern You, also Govern Him...action Joe, actions and deeds shall be the words of Men-
(04/07/07-07:39:58)
Kira
Property of Aliyyah, bought for two silvers
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- In or near a cage along the guarded perimeter of the market -
: says to ALL:.... As i knelt in tower, submissive behind the bars of the cage that had been my home for days now, i realized that there was a strange, unexpected peace in knowing that one's old life is over forever, that all choices have been eliminated, and that disobedience is simply no longer an option. It was possible, i realized, to be a slave and yet be happy. A entirely new world was opening up to me, and an old world closing down. i had moved from one continent of experience--freedom--to a new an different continent of experience--slavery, and learned i could survive there. i simply had to change, and put away my old pride and independence. i must learn to submit to the will of the free, and never again question their actions.
(04/07/07-07:43:37)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -I was anoyed as the thoughts, I felt that in some way I had almost let the Man down. It would have been easy to kill and take the Woman, at what cost? The Man lose His life and the Woman lose Her freedom, this was the physical cost but the cost to Me and what I stood for would have been far greater had I let the events unfold as they had begun in a ern of bored rage and the desire to make another feel My pain, yes indeed...misery did love company. I was a Torvaldian and above that I was a Man I closed My eyes and gripped the scroll in My hands. Yes, I have killed and Yes I have taken but never more than I needed and never a life fell on My blade that did not attack Me first. Almost, oh so very close to that rocky shore did that stormpush My boat, as I open My eyes again and look at the rising sun, My features slowly eased and took the air in My lungs as I felt the breath of a new day-
(04/07/07-07:49:17)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -I closed My eyes again and recited a poem that I wrote some time back and found it fitting to speak the words and remind the heart of the reason that We do the things We do, the reason We endure pain and the reason that the mortal life of a Man has the choice to make His world better or allow it to sink into the depths of oblivion-
Set low and caste with milk the eyes that sparkle left
Upon the woe of bitter men and axes still to cleft
No more thine songs sung aloud
No mourning tear be shed, the man and soul is lost to time
That man he is now dead
To the shore the water called the lunar string is pulled
The hall is bare and the fire is cold, the wine no longer mulled
Set fire to wood and ice to heart for the turning of the tide
The grip of dearth about you now as sorrow is my bride
That man now is dead
I will see you soon in battle heat and pass the final chore
To live the lie my father did and even up that score
Weep not for me, I did it proud and stood with axe in hand
So here I fell I see it now, my blood runs in the sand
That man now is dead
Let me be the one to smile and break the widow’s curse
The ferry man he sings to me as I open up my purse
Two coins he asks and do play , my toll in life is spent
Onward now to father hall from wence I came, I went
That man now is dead
(04/07/07-07:53:07)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -and with that I smiled and tossed the scroll into the flames as I made My way to the gates, the small plune of smoke all that remains of the scroll in the hands of a Torvaldian-
Kira
Property of Aliyyah, bought for two silvers
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- In or near a cage along the guarded perimeter of the market -
: says to Jarl Joe MacBainCompanio:.... "Greetings, Master." i said, my eyes lowered.
(04/07/07-07:24:51)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to KiraProperty of Aliyyah,:.... -I heard you but the offence and sting was still very fresh and I picked up a scroll and looked over the work that needed to be done-
(04/07/07-07:26:08)
Kira
Property of Aliyyah, bought for two silvers
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- In or near a cage along the guarded perimeter of the market -
: says to Jarl Joe MacBainCompanio:.... i knew i had behaved badly. His reaction was not surprising. i knew also that such behavior was now forever forbidden to me. i kept silent, and remained in tower.
(04/07/07-07:31:01)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -The day seemed rather quite and My temper and reslove required, like so many things, a recharge. Much had gone on in My life on the planet and like a serpant on the high crest of a wave a Captain either runs and is swolled by the wave or stands on the bow and roars His name at the heavens. The problem this leave is the people the Captain drags along with Him in the course of His actions and each Man has a responsiblity to those that He leads. I felt it right to question the choices I had made though I felt in My soul I was right to make them but the pain of the Ones You love or the back lash of the innocent was not something that went away quickly from My mind...I would calm My spirit and become again the Man I was before I was sent on the blood rage of Odin, the anger had served it's purpose and My resolve as strong as ever in the iron will but as for My actions to those that did not warrant My wrath then I would now take measures to see to that and who knows, perhaps at last get a good nights sleep-
(04/07/07-07:35:21)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -The small scroll in hand as I focus in the dim lights of the morning sun was hard going, I was still in the learning phase of reading Gorean, Torvaldian by birth and knowing only runes, it was Nyah My Mate and a Tuchuk that had began My teachings of the left to right and right to left scrawl of the common Goreans. I did have an advantage and that was communication, times for action are bound but without the right communication the right action for the wrong reasons could take place and death had no coming back. So I took the study as serious as I took My blade in My hand and the blood for My Foes. Still, I wanted to put the scroll down and have a drink, perhaps later for the drink and I took a solid breath and took the scroll up once more in My hands and began to read. I waved off the attentions of a serving girl that came over, pretty enough but nothing that I had seen a thousand times before or will again-
(04/07/07-07:39:33)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -I rubbed My left hand slowly down My cheek as I read the scroll that I was sent and could not help but think back the events of yesterday, how I became bored and even lost, how I let that anger and bordem wash over Me as the wave over the bow of a ship, the navigation lost for a ern. In that ern I could have killed and Man and took hostage a Woman that had never ment or done Me harm. Going about their business as they did and the fact that I was going to take, for what reason Joe? I asked Myself, because You could and You got bored with Gor. I came to think of My Fatrher, Garr and what His words had ment to Me. Just because You can does not always mean that You should. The better Your blade the more responsiblity You hold in that skill, face each Man as if it was a Man that could best You and treat Him with the respect that You would pay a famed Warrior, for the rules and laws that govern You, also Govern Him...action Joe, actions and deeds shall be the words of Men-
(04/07/07-07:39:58)
Kira
Property of Aliyyah, bought for two silvers
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- In or near a cage along the guarded perimeter of the market -
: says to ALL:.... As i knelt in tower, submissive behind the bars of the cage that had been my home for days now, i realized that there was a strange, unexpected peace in knowing that one's old life is over forever, that all choices have been eliminated, and that disobedience is simply no longer an option. It was possible, i realized, to be a slave and yet be happy. A entirely new world was opening up to me, and an old world closing down. i had moved from one continent of experience--freedom--to a new an different continent of experience--slavery, and learned i could survive there. i simply had to change, and put away my old pride and independence. i must learn to submit to the will of the free, and never again question their actions.
(04/07/07-07:43:37)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -I was anoyed as the thoughts, I felt that in some way I had almost let the Man down. It would have been easy to kill and take the Woman, at what cost? The Man lose His life and the Woman lose Her freedom, this was the physical cost but the cost to Me and what I stood for would have been far greater had I let the events unfold as they had begun in a ern of bored rage and the desire to make another feel My pain, yes indeed...misery did love company. I was a Torvaldian and above that I was a Man I closed My eyes and gripped the scroll in My hands. Yes, I have killed and Yes I have taken but never more than I needed and never a life fell on My blade that did not attack Me first. Almost, oh so very close to that rocky shore did that stormpush My boat, as I open My eyes again and look at the rising sun, My features slowly eased and took the air in My lungs as I felt the breath of a new day-
(04/07/07-07:49:17)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -I closed My eyes again and recited a poem that I wrote some time back and found it fitting to speak the words and remind the heart of the reason that We do the things We do, the reason We endure pain and the reason that the mortal life of a Man has the choice to make His world better or allow it to sink into the depths of oblivion-
Set low and caste with milk the eyes that sparkle left
Upon the woe of bitter men and axes still to cleft
No more thine songs sung aloud
No mourning tear be shed, the man and soul is lost to time
That man he is now dead
To the shore the water called the lunar string is pulled
The hall is bare and the fire is cold, the wine no longer mulled
Set fire to wood and ice to heart for the turning of the tide
The grip of dearth about you now as sorrow is my bride
That man now is dead
I will see you soon in battle heat and pass the final chore
To live the lie my father did and even up that score
Weep not for me, I did it proud and stood with axe in hand
So here I fell I see it now, my blood runs in the sand
That man now is dead
Let me be the one to smile and break the widow’s curse
The ferry man he sings to me as I open up my purse
Two coins he asks and do play , my toll in life is spent
Onward now to father hall from wence I came, I went
That man now is dead
(04/07/07-07:53:07)
Jarl Joe MacBain
Companion of His Nyah
HOUSE OF MACBAIN
== MARKET of SEMRIS ==
- Amongst the many benches and tables by the Central Fire -
: says to ALL:.... -and with that I smiled and tossed the scroll into the flames as I made My way to the gates, the small plune of smoke all that remains of the scroll in the hands of a Torvaldian-