Welcome to Port Kar
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Important......slaves - 2 post minimum entry, Outlaws and Thieves - 2 post minimum entry, Free Men/Woman of Caste - 3 post minimum entry and MUST enter from one of the entrance areas unless already in City
ALL Messengers must enter with your roleplay name, yellow sashed messenger and who its for otherwise you WILL be asked to change to correct codes if you choose not too you WILL be booted
"Port Kar, squalid, malignant Port Kar, scourge of gleaming Thassa, Tarn of the Sea, is a vast, disjointed mass of holdings, each almost a fortress, piled almost upon one another, divided and crossed by hundreds of canals...."
"It is, in effect, walled, though it has few walls as one normally thinks of them. Those buildings which face outwards, say, either at the delta or along the shallow Tamber gulf, have no windows on the outward side, and the outward walls of them are several feet thick, and they are surmounted, on the roofs, with crenelated parapets."
"The canals which open into the delta of the Tamber were, in the last few years, fitted with heavy, half-submerged gates of bars."
Raiders of Gor, Book 6, Page 103.
It is located in a humid, tropical climate, and situated near the Vosk delta marsh on the Tamber Gulf and Thassa. Famed mostly as a trading port and den of outcasts, outlaws, cutthroats and scoundrels, Port Kar is known for its shipping: pirate fleets, grain fleets, oil fleets, slave fleets, etc... The city is renowned for her seamen. The ships are feared throughout known Gor. Only the Ubarates of Cos and Tyros are traditional enemies, have tarnships to match the fleets of Port Kar. Port Kar trades to the north and south for goods and items it requires. The merchant cities of Thassa aid in the trade between Port Kar and traditional enemies.
Port Kar is ruled by a Council of Captains, those being determined by the number of Ships and Men they command.
It is the only city on Gor built by slaves, and it is also the only city constructed completely without towers. Although slaves are permitted to build houses of men of Port Kar, slaves are not permitted to build their ships. It is said that the chains of a slave girl are heaviest in Port Kar. It is said that no slave has ever escaped from Port Kar.
Port Kar is also the home of the only Caste of Thieves in all of Gor. The Caste of Thieves have a lot of power in the lower canals and perimeters of Port Kar. The scar of their caste mark is "...a tiny three-pronged brand burned into the face in back of and below the eye, over the right cheekbone."
One aspect of the area around Port Kar is the Vosk delta marsh. The delta "is Port Kar's strongest wall." The nearest solid land lies around 100 pasangs to the north of Port Kar. There are kept "log outposts...where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes edges."
Port Kar is completely dependent on preserves set in the northern forests for their timber to build their ships. "Tur wood is used for galley frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking; Ka-la-na serves for capstans and mastheads; Tem-wood for rudders and oars; and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck planking." The men of Port Kar also purchase wood from the Forest People in the winter when the logs can be sledded to the sea.
Please remember the dancing slaves of Port Kar are the best on Gor
The Arsenal
Many warehouses, shops and foundries
These are built of stone, with slate or tin roofs
Numerous sheds and roofed storage areas are wooden, separated from one another
Numberous basins of water
Red wooden boxes store folded leather buckets near basins for fire-fighting
Larger basins connect with canals to allow transport of heavy materials
2 points of canal access to city canal system, 2 points of access to Tamber Gulf
Heavy barred gates at these canal points
"Fire has always been regarded as the great hazard to the arsenal. Accordingly many of her warehouses, shops and foundries are built of stone, with slated or tinned roofs. Wooden structures, such as her numerous sheds and roofed storage areas tend to be separated from one another.
Within the arsenal itself there are numerous basins, providing a plenitude of water. Many of these basins, near which, in red-painted wooden boxes, are stored large numbers of folded leather buckets, are expressly for the purpose of providing a means for fighting fires.
Some of the other basins are large enough to float galleys; these large basins connect with the arsenal's canal system, by means of which heavy materials may be conveyed about the arsenal; the arsenal's canal system also gives access, at two points, to the canal system of the city and, at two other points, to the Tamber Gulf, beyond which lies gleaming Thassa.
Each of these four points are guarded by great barred gates. The large basins, just mentioned, are of two types: the first, unroofed, is used for the underwater storage and seasoning of Tur wood; the second, roofed, serves for heavier fittings and upper carpentry of ships, and for repairs that do not necessitate recourse to the roofed dry docks."
"The damage to the arsenal, which I had seen with my own eyes, and had taken statistical reports on from the scribes, had not been particularly serious. It amounted to the destruction of one roofed area where Ka-la-na wood was stored, and the partial destruction of another; one small warehouse for the storage pitch, one of several, had been destroyed; two dry docks had been lost, and the shop of the oarmakers, near the warehouse for oars, had been damaged; the warehouse itself, as it turned out, had escaped the fire."
Named Piers
Pier of the Red Urt
Spice Pier
Pier Sixteen
Named Canals
Rim Canal
Ribbon Canal
Ribbon's Alley
“There are some girls behind the paga taverns, on the northern shore of the Ribbon’s alley,” she said. I released her and she sank to her knees, gasping. The Ribbon is one of Port Kar’s better-known canals. A narrower canal, somewhat south of it is called the Ribbon’s alley. It was a bit past dawn and the paga taverns backing on the smaller canal would be throwing out their garbage from the preceding night. She-urts sometimes gather at such places for their pick of the remnants of feasts.
Explorers
Swing Bridges
Few bridges on larger, main canals
Those bridges are swing bridges, that float back against canal
Allows merchant (round)ships to pass since thier masts are fixed.
Can also block canals and isolate areas of the city
"The larger canals in Port Kar, incidentally, have few bridges, and those they have are commonly swing bridges, which may be floated back against the canal’s side. This makes it possible for merchant ships, round ships, with permanently fixed masts, to move within the city, and, from the military point of view, makes it possible to block canals and also, when drawn back, isolate given areas of the city by the canals which function then as moats. The swing bridges are normally fastened back, except from the eighth to the tenth Ahn and from the fifteenth to the seventeenth Ahn."
NOTE......**The av posted for Port Kar was found in a Yahoo search I did not make it and will not take credit for it**
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