[13:01] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): clears his throat and starts to speak in a formal tone: For all Goreans a city is more than brick and marble, cylinders and bridges. It is not simply a place, a geographical location in which men have seen fit to build their dwellings, a collection of structures where they may most conveniently conduct their affairs.
[13:01] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): Looks around, then continues: the Gorean knows that a city cannot be simply identified with its material elements, which undergo their transformations even as do the cells of a human body.
[13:01] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): For us a city is almost a living thing, or more than a living thing. It is an entity with a history, as stones and rivers do not have history: it is an entity with tradition, a heritage, customs, practices, character, intentions, hopes.
[13:01] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): When a Gorean says that he is of the Oasis of Lame Kaiila, he is doing a great deal more than informing you of his place of residence. To be of our oasis is to have be a part of something less perishable than oneself, something divine in the sense of undying.
[13:02] Elphie Kiriko Kira (elphaba.jinxing) listens takes out her quill and documents …….
[13:02] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): Of course, as every Gorean knows, cities too are mortal, for cities can be destroyed as well as men. And this makes us love our oasis all the more, for we know that our oasis, like ourselves, is subject to mortal termination. (…)
[13:02] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): Belonging to the oasis is symbolised by the giving of bread, salt and fire by the man who is in charge.
[13:03] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): walks to the prepared table and takes up a loaf of bread which he carefully breaks into pieces.
[13:03] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): takes the pieces and gives them to each of the new citizens by rank, free men first, free woman second.
[13:04] Nephtides na Neidos (nephtides): *inclines head and holds his bread piece reverently* (…)
[13:08] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): You have now been offered and accepted bread salt and fire of the Oasis of Lame Kaiila. You may now consider her home stone your own.
[13:08] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): Love of our city is invested in a stone which is known as the Home Stone. For many, a Home Stone is sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the oasis was only a cluster of huts near a few palm treesr, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite-the city finds its symbol.
[13:08] Nephtides na Neidos (nephtides): *does his best to protect the flame from the high wind, shielding it with his body and a hand
[13:08] Rarius Yuroki (yuroki.uriza): Yet to speak of a symbol is to fall short of the mark. The city itself is identified with the Home Stone, it is to the city what it is to a man. The legends of these matters have it, that while the Home Stone survives, so too, must the city.”
[13:08] Reinhard von Lohengramm (reinhardlohengramm) raises the bread to the level of his head, to honor with this gesture Rarius’ words. “An honor, thank you.” (…)
[13:30] Edgar Gray (cruelmerchant) nods and swears: “: I, Edgar, do hereby solemnly declare that I will be loyal to the Home Stone of the Oasis of Lame Kaiila, promote all that will advance it and oppose all that may harm it, uphold and respect its leadership, successors and laws, and commit my life to the furtherance of the ideals and principles contained therein” (…)
[13:33] WolfgangBauer: I, Wolf, do solemnly declare that I will be loyal to the Home Stone of the Oasis of Lame Kaiila, promote all that will advance it and oppose all that may harm it, uphold and respect its leadership, successors and laws, and commit my life to the furtherance of the ideals and principles contained therein
[13:33] Zagan Bararaq ibn Yuroki (aiga): I zagan bararaq ibn yuroki
do hereby solemnly declare that I will be loyal to the Home Stone of the Oasis of Lame Kaiila, promote all that will advance it and oppose all that may harm it, uphold and respect its leadership, successors and laws, and commit my life to the furtherance of the ideals and principles contained there
[13:33] Elphie Kiriko Kira (elphaba.jinxing): I, Lady El Kiriko Kira, do hereby solemnly declare that I will be loyal to the Home Stone of the Oasis of Lame Kaiila, promote all that will advance it and oppose all that may harm it, uphold and respect its leadership, successors and laws, and commit my life to the furtherance of the ideals and principles contained therein, ….. in accordance with the Law. (…)