From BarenTouhk

Motto: Be honorable, be Gorean, or be gone.

We are not a public service. We reserve the right to regulate activity in any way and for any reason.

All Free Persons and slaves are welcome within the gates of Baren Touhk, subject to the following rules.

Contents 1 Authority 2 Courtesy and Respect 3 Citizenship 4 Conduct and Roleplay 5 Disputes 6 Travelers 7 Credits 8 Collars 9 Slaves 10 Service 11 Slave Garments 12 Silk Levels 13 Helpers 14 White Silk Slaves 15 Kettle Slaves 16 Free Ranks 17 CRPs

Authority

1. Respect for the Administrator and all officials of the city is expected at all times.
2. No one is allowed to represent any official title or authority that has not been assigned by the Administrator.
3. The decisions of Baren Touhk staffers are binding.
4. All staff decisions and city rules may only be appealed to, overruled by, or granted exception by the Administrator.

Courtesy and Respect

1. Respect for all citizens and property must also be shown at all times.
2. Abuse of Free Persons or their property will not be tolerated.
3. Abuse shown toward slaves will not only be unwelcome, but can also lead to confuse and degrade the slaves.

Citizenship

1. Only one primary account per user is permitted. Additional accounts are permitted only with the Citizen Role-Player (CRP) designation, which is available on request from the city.
2. New users, free or slave, are designated as Travelers until they complete a New User Orientation (NUO) with a city designee, at which time they become Citizens.
3. A user's name should be selected for its suitability to Gor. Names with a Gorean sound are generally good for freepersons, and English female names are often attractive for slavegirls. Names of prominent characters from the Gor novels, male or female, are prohibited.
4. All slaves that have not earned silks are designated as Ubar's Garden Helpers (or "Helpers" for short).
5. Any citizen absent from the city for more than 90 days will be deemed a Traveler and will need to re-attend a NUO.

Conduct and Roleplay

1. All Citizens and Travelers are expected to conduct themselves in a Gorean manner within the city.
2. All roleplay is subject to consent from all parties. Unwelcome roleplay, particular that which is sexual in nature, is prohibited.
3. The one exception to the above is the service of food and drink by silked slaves, which is required and not subject to the slave's consent.
4. Real-life emergencies are acceptable as reasons for sudden delays or departures, but may be dealt with if they become excessive.
5. In public rooms, mild Gorean-type scening between consenting participants is allowed. There is to be no public sexual penetration except in rooms designated as Non-Consent.
6. A citizen's presence in a room designated as a Non-Consent room implies roleplay consent.
7. No citizen may kill another, only citizen roleplay characters may die if they consent, and this must occur only in the Arena.
8. No Free person may offer "protection" to a slave or any official "training" here.

Disputes

1. Personal disagreements or arguments should be resolved privately by the disputing parties wherever possible.
2. Be creative and open-minded. Sometimes roleplay can help in resolving disputes.
3. If necessary, you may ask a staff member to mediate, provided you agree to accept the outcome.

Travelers

1. Travelers are prohibited in the Home Stone room and all Non-Consent rooms.
2. Free Travelers may not summon or order slaves to join them in rooms.
3. Free Travelers are not allowed to take any slave to the furs in any room.

Credits

1. Credits are the city's representation of a roleplay monetary economy. They have no real-world value.
2. Citizens begin with a small balance of credits, and earn credits based on city activity and random factors.
3. City officials may reward or fine citizens with credits at their discretion for exemplary behavior, infractions, or contests.

Collars

1. All slaves are owned; those that are not personally owned are owned by the city.
2. All city-owned slaves that have been silked wear a city collar.
3. Free citizens may collar any slave citizen that consents.
4. Owners may be sanctioned for their collared slaves' behavior at the discretion of the city.
5. Any free persons wishing to collar a slave must notify a city staffer and purchase the slave from the city. Roleplay during this process is welcome and encouraged.
6. A free person who collars a slave without notifying city officials will be billed double the usual asking price for that slave.
7. The city recognizes ownerships from elsewhere, provided the ownership existed prior to citizenship in Baren Touhk, provided both Owner and slave are Citizens, and provided the ownership is also recorded in Baren Touhk with a collar.
8. A slave may indicate in the profile that he/she is also owned elsewhere, but doing so does not change Baren Touhk ownership status.
9. Training collars of any kind are prohibited unless specifically authorized by the city.

Slaves

1. All slaves are expected ask to enter and leave public rooms, and any Free Person may grant that permission.
2. The Freepersons Hall is off-limits to all slaves.
3. Slaves are expected to address free persons by honorific and name, as in "Master X" or "Mistress Y". A slave may use simply "Master" or "Mistress" when addressing their owner, or when it is unambiguous whom the slave is addressing.
4. Slaves are expected to use third person in the public rooms as it lends to the atmosphere. However, this is primarily for the purpose of Gorean atmosphere, so some leniency for slip-ups and typos is encouraged.
5. Slaves may not be ordered to enter a Non-Consent room.
6. A slave's profile may not reference any individual freeperson other than that slave's owner.

Service

1. All slaves (except for Helpers) are REQUIRED to serve food and drink in city Taverns and Inns to free persons who wish it (called "Service" henceforth).
2. Service is not consensual or optional. Period. Slaves exist for the pleasure of the Free. You must serve them.
3. Service is to be performed using the manner and items which are trained by the city. If a slave is asked to serve differently or beyond that, she may do so as a courtesy, but is not to be punished for offering only that in which the city has trained her.
4. Slaves are expected to appear in person to offer service. Do not ask in a tell if a free person needs service.
5. Whether service is accepted or declined, a sufficient number of slaves are to remain in the room in case it is required subsequently.
6. Slaves will be sanctioned severely for avoiding service or failing to notice the presence of those potentially needing it.
7. The city has heard all possible excuses over the years, so avoid making them and just go offer service.

Slave Garments

1. Helpers wear only a light repcloth tunic.
2. City-owned silked slaves wear silks of the color they have been recognized with by the city.
3. Personally owned silked slaves may wear any garment (or nothing) their owner wishes, provided it is not of a color indicative of city recognition the slave has not received.
4. Slaves may not wear gifts, trinkets, garments, or other items bearing the name or indicating origin of any citizen other than their owner.
5. Helpers and city-owned Black Silk slaves may not wear adornments of any kind other than their primary garment.

Silk Levels

1. Slaves may from time to time be promoted (or demoted) in the hierarchy of silk levels as determined by the city.
2. Slaves will be invited to test for higher silk level at the city's discretion.
3. Asking to be promoted is not looked well upon. Demonstrate your value instead.
4. Slaves may wear garments of the type and color indicated by their recognized silk level.
5. Slaves are encouraged to seek training from the city if they wish to rise in silk level.
6. Slaves may not indicate in their profile or description silk levels not designated to them by the city.
7. Slaves may be demoted in silk levels at the city's discretion if the slave shows a decrease in quality of service, knowledge, participation level, or enthusiasm.
8. Note that White Silks are not a silk level, but a separate slave designation.
9. Silk levels in the city of Baren Touhk are as follows, in increasing order, corresponding generally to increasing degree of Gorean knowledge, slave allure and grace, as well as eagerness, quantity, and quality of service demonstrated by the slave:
   1. Kettle Slave (punishment garb)
   2. Helper (no silks yet)
   3. Black Silk Slave
   4. Yellow Silk Slave
   5. Red Silk Slave

Helpers

1. All slaves that have not earned silks are designated as Ubar's Garden Helpers (or "Helpers" for short).
2. Helpers are fiercely protected by the city.
3. Helpers must maintain only the phrase "Ubar's Garden Helper" in their .desc.
4. Helpers must properly ask permission to enter and exit, and should always be assisted with kindness in how to do so since they are learning.
5. Helpers may not be asked to serve, go to private rooms, or dance.
6. Helpers may only be present in private or locked rooms with city officials on official business.
7. Helpers may voluntarily offer to serve food or drink if they wish to practice.
8. Helpers may not engage in sexual roleplay of any kind, even with their owners. No citizen may attempt to engage them sexually.
9. Helpers may not warm a lap.
10. Helpers may not expose their slave heat (genitalia).
11. Helpers must avoid the use of larma, talenders, or braids to exhibit sexual willingness.
12. Helpers must keep their palms facing downward when kneeling.
13. Helpers are not permitted in Non-consent rooms at any time.

White Silk Slaves

1. Any slave who wishes it (or the slave's owner) may petition the city for the designation of White Silk Slave.
2. The city will generally be inclined to grant White Silk status to city-owned slaves wishing to behave virginally, or privately owned slaves wishing to reserve sexual activity for their owners.
3. White Silk slaves may not expose their slave heat (genitalia) except to their owner, if any.
4. White Silk slaves must avoid the use of larma, talenders, or braids to exhibit sexual willingness, except for the benefit of their Owner.
5. White Silk slaves are to use the Tower position for all kneeling.
6. White Silk slaves must keep their palms facing downward when kneeling.
7. White Silk slaves may not serve free persons sexually, except their owner if any.
8. White Silk slaves are not permitted in Non-consent rooms at any time.
9. No freeperson (except the slave's owner, if any) is to attempt to engage a White Silk slave in sexual service of any kind.
10. Behavior considered unbecoming of a White Silk slave may result in revocation of the designation.

Kettle Slaves

1. A slave who has been found consistently or egregiously displeasing by the city may be demoted to Kettle Slave.
2. Kettle Slaves wear only a plain repcloth camisk.
3. Kettle Slaves must maintain only the phrase "Kettle Slave" in their .desc.
4. Kettle Slaves must work particularly diligently to demonstrate service and humility to the entire city.
5. Kettle Slaves may be restored to Black Silk status by publically demonstrating genuine reform, and re-testing by the city for basic skills.
6. Kettle Slaves very readily risk jailing or banning if poor behavior or failure to improve continues.

Free Ranks

1. Free Citizens may from time to time be promoted (or demoted) in the hierarchy of ranks as determined by the city.
2. Free Citizens will be invited to test for higher rank at the city's discretion.
3. Free ranks in the city of Baren Touhk are as follows, in increasing order, corresponding generally to increasing degree of Gorean knowledge and city contribution demonstrated by the citizen:
   1. Citizen
   2. Master / Mistress
   3. Tavern Master / Tavern Mistress
   4. CG Master / CG Mistress

CRPs

1. Citizens may play CRP (Citizen Role-Player) accounts on approved request from the city.
2. CRP characters may not participate in auctions, raffles, or other contests.
3. CRP characters may not offer or accept collars.
4. Free CRP characters may not hold rank.
5. Slave CRP characters may not be designated higher than Black Silk.
6. CRP characters may not be used for the purposes of deception or "mind games".
7. Travelers, Helpers, and Kettle Slaves may not create or play CRP characters.
8. The city reserves the right to deny requests for CRP characters for any reason, and to remove CRP characters that are unapproved or deemed disruptive.