1. Show respect at all times.
2. Entering a room - It is not required to beg permission to enter The Keep, but you must beg permission to enter into the private quarters of the Free.
3. Leaving a room - Slaves must beg permission to leave any room where there is a Free person present.
4. Slave speech - The use of slave speech is true in the books, but was generally only used as a training device, or a punishment. On the Island of Farnacium, the Ubar does not require the use of slave speech but does not disallow it either. In the end it's a matter of what your personal Master requires, or what's most comfortable for you.
5. When you enter, as slaves, you will have to choose the most appropriate pulldown from where to post. Depending on your status as a state slave, personal slave, or visiting slave, you should choose any of the pulldowns that would be most appropriate. OOC greetings using the OOC pulldown will be allowed, and preferred, but you may also Privately Whisper them to ALL before posting into the role play.
6. Offering service will be done as soon as you’ve greeted and done in either fashion you are trained, Northern or Southern. If you are new to gor and do not know how to serve yet, see the Ubar, Master Shadowglade, immediately or one of His slaves, nassy, zoya or chi’ani, or ask whom the trainers are.
Slave Guidelines:
"He is Master, and I am Slave.
He is owner, and I am owned.
He commands, and I obey.
He is to be pleased, and I am to please.
Why is this?-Explorers of Gor, pg. 178-179
"Do you know, ultimately," I asked, "who will prove to be your one best trainer?"
"No, Master," she said.
"You, yourself," I said, "the girl, herself, eager to please, imaginative and intelligent, monitoring her own performances and feelings, striving lovingly to improve and refine them. You yourself will be largely responsible for making yourself the superb slave you will become."
-Savages of Gor, pg. 210
"The kneeling position is, of course, a suitable one for slaves. A slave will normally assume such a position on entering the presence of her master or a free person. She will probably remain in it until permitted to rise. It is a common position, too, for her to assume when she is in attendance of a master, for example, awaiting his notice or commands. Too, she will usually speak to her master from this position, unless, of course, she is lying down, as in making her reports to him, inquiring as to his will, answering questions, and so on. Some masters approve it, too, for purposes of general conversation."
-Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 246
"It is almost universal, as far as I know, that a slave kneels in one fashion or another when entering her master's presence, or if she should find herself in his presence. She also commonly kneels when spoken to by any free person. This is simply a matter of respect. To be sure, she can be slain, if she does not do so. The kneeling position, of course, which the master's, or free person's, permission, either tacit or explicit, is usually required to break, is commonly an initial position. For example, after its deferential assumption, she may be dismissed from it, to other duties, such as cleaning, shopping or cooking."
-Dancer of Gor, pg. 114
Serving:
"You are garbed strangely for a paga slave" I said, indicating the clogs, the black, buttoned, top.
"Do you wish me to put on pleasure silk?" she asked me.
"No" I said. She tossed her head. "In many Gorean taverns," I said, " the paga slaves serve naked."
"Yes," she said, slowly, "they do." "Paga Master?" she asked, kneeling before me, the metal cup held before her, in two hands.
"Yes," I said.
She proffered the cup to me. She knelt back on her heels, her knees wide, and extended her arms to me, the cup held in her hands.
"Did you not neglect to kiss it?" I asked her.
She drew back the cup pressing her lips to it, kissed it.
"Is that how a slave kisses the cup of a Master?" I asked.
She again turned her head to the side and pressed her lips softly, lingeringly, against it. then she kissed it. I saw a tremor course through her body. I think then, for the first time, she had begun to understand what it might be truly, to kiss the cup of a Master. Then again kneeling back on her heels, her knees wide, extending her arms to me, the cup in her hands, she proffered me the drink.
"Your head should be down, between your arms," I said. She put her head down.
Again I saw a small movement in her body, a tremor, subtle. She had put her head down before a man. Another consequence of this position is that the girls eyes, in the specific act of her serving, do not meet those of the Master. They are lowered before his, as one who submits. This is reminiscent, in an experienced girl, of her training. Often in training, a girl is not permitted to look into the eyes of the trainer, unless he should specifically extend this permission. Indeed, in some cities, the girl in training may not raise her eyes above the trainers belt, unless, again, specifically accorded this permission.
"Speak," I said to her.
"Your paga Master," she said. But I did not take the paga.
"Do you know other phrases?" I asked. there were many actually, and they tended to vary from tavern to tavern, and from city to city. There was, really, no standardization in such matters.
She trembled, head down, proffering me the paga. "Your girl brings you drink, Master," she said.
"Any others?" I asked.
"Here is your drink, Master," she said "I beg to serve you further in any way I may."
"Another," I said sharply.
"Do not forget I come with the price of the cup," she said. "Use me as you will, Master."
"Personalized phrase," I said.
"Evelyn tenders drink humbly to Master," she said. "Evelyn hopes Master will later find her suitable to give him pleasure."
"Another," I said.
"I am Evelyn," she said. "I serve you, naked and collared. Take me later to the alcove. I beg to be taught my slavery."
-Explorers of Gor, pg. 160-161
A Note from the Ubar on Serving
Basically serving is a personal thing. Each slave does it differently, and no two slaves are, or SHOULD be alike in their serving style. There is a really bad problem with "cookie-cutter slave-ism" on online Gor, as people who learned their slavery one way, think that is the ONLY way. I disagree with that. I love the fact that each slave is different. I don't want "uniform slavery" in my home. Creativity is part of the draw for slaves and free alike. Keep it Gorean, but be creative! - Shadowglade
