[10:57]  Khuyildar Bluebird: well i am ready
[10:57]  Wendy String: please follow
[10:58]  The Jarls Castle Gathering Gong shouts: The Gathering Gong calls all Arcadians to the castle
[10:58]  *FS* Warning System (gong) shouts: The Gathering Gong calls all Arcadians to the castle
[10:59]  Wendy String: please have a seat Sir and neph will be here shortly
[10:59]  Wendy String: tal neph
[11:00]  Wendy String: we have a visitor from teh gorean geophysical society
[11:00]  Nephtides: *stands up upon hearing the gong, lays the quill aside, and nods friendly at the arrivors*
[11:00]  Khuyildar Bluebird looks around and sees a man "tal, I am Khu, and explorer"
[11:00]  Nephtides: Ah! Very good *Tals the man formally* WEelcome on Arcadia Sir
[11:00]  Khuyildar Bluebird: an explorer of geophysical phenomenae
[11:00]  Nephtides: I am Neph, the Jarl hereabouts
[11:01]  Nephtides: Thank You for bringing our guest, Wendy
[11:01]  Wendy String: you are most welcome
[11:01]  Khuyildar Bluebird: "ah , you ar Neph, I heard of your name, you are a metalurgist, if i am well"
[11:01]  Nephtides: We have fresh blackwine ready, if you care for it
[11:01]  Khuyildar Bluebird: blackwine will do
[11:01]  Nephtides: *nods* indeed Sir, that is my craft
[11:01]  Khuyildar Bluebird: my skills lay in Geomorfologhy
[11:02]  Nephtides: *looks dead impressed* Something with form, hm?
[11:02]  Khuyildar Bluebird: The landscape
[11:02]  Nephtides: *waves at the Tharlarion passing* Tou! Good boy!
[11:02]  Khuyildar Bluebird: the surface form of the planet
[11:02]  Nephtides: *nods, smiles and pours two cups*
[11:03]  Nephtides: It´s first slave Sir, sugar and cream are there if ye please *points at the greenish taharian chairs invitingly*
[11:04]  Nephtides: *stirs sugar and cream into his cup*
[11:04]  Nephtides: *shoves a bowl of pastries near*
[11:05]  Khuyildar Bluebird takes a cup and adds some milk
[11:05]  Nephtides: I have heard a lot about your society, Sir.. I believe it is the recent quake, and the exploded isle nearby that yer interested in?
[11:06]  Khuyildar Bluebird: yes, such disaster create new landscape, and more important, explain existing landscape forms
[11:07]  Nephtides: *nods, interested*
[11:07]  Nephtides: I have observed there is still a small amount of rock added there daily
[11:07]  Nephtides: the sky in this direction was red at night
[11:07]  Nephtides: Tou , sit
[11:08]  Nephtides: meet our youngest war tharlarion
[11:08]  Nephtides: *sighs* due to our bankers pampering of it, it thinks its.. i dunno.. a giani or other pet *grins*
[11:08]  Khuyildar Bluebird: Theories try to explain that landscapes are explained by a combination of natural phenomenae, as well as human acting, or interference of the Priest ings. That latter field is a tricky one, since some claim the Priest Kings don't exists, but there are forms in teh surface of Gor which no normal theory can explain
[11:09]  Khuyildar Bluebird looks at the animal
[11:09]  Nephtides: *looks amused* There are people who doubt the kings exist?
[11:09]  Khuyildar Bluebird: yea, in some cities, and of course in Torvaldslansd
[11:10]  Nephtides: ah.. no, i think not, Sir
[11:10]  Nephtides: at least hereabouts it´s more like some Odinists take them fer hostile gods
[11:10]  Nephtides: I can only smirk there Sir.. I need the blue flame fer my work´s highest reaches
[11:11]  Nephtides: seeing its power, i doubt not there are kings
[11:12]  Khuyildar Bluebird: I have seen things also that I am sure they exists. What they are, i don't know, since i have never met one, and I am glad for that
[11:13]  Khuyildar Bluebird: And i aslo saw the mentioned "blue flame "at work, in a tempel in Tasta, long ago
[11:13]  Nephtides: aye.. though i AM curious, be that blasphemic as it will *smiles and sips*
[11:13]  Nephtides: *nods* it is incredible
[11:14]  Nephtides: the way it changes the steel is like a magicians miracle
[11:14]  Khuyildar Bluebird nods "i heard the blue color was caused by the enormus heat of the flame, which even evaporated steel"
[11:14]  Nephtides: the wek parts, it does, aye
[11:14]  Nephtides: weak
[11:14]  Nephtides: what remains rings like the finest crystal
[11:15]  Nephtides: Tou? sit or out, boy, ye scratch the floorboards
[11:16]  Nephtides: *thinks about making cork shoes for the monster*
[11:16]  Khuyildar Bluebird watches the war tharlarion a bit nervous
[11:16]  Nephtides: ahh he´s good as milk, most o´all times
[11:16]  Nephtides: *shakes head* I wouldn´t have believed they CAN be pampered
[11:17]  Khuyildar Bluebird: I heard a story about Larls being tamed, but i fear thats justa fable"he thinks a moment "metal in crystal layers, must have enormous strength
[11:19]  Khuyildar Bluebird: but i am no expert, only spoke some master in black smithery
[11:19]  Nephtides: *nods* I am on research there, Sir
[11:19]  Nephtides: In my wanderings of northern and middle Gor, i acquired a few swords from the pani lands
[11:19]  Khuyildar Bluebird: Then your knowledge is far advanged above mine in this field
[11:20]  Nephtides: they use that principle in swordmaking
[11:20]  Nephtides: sheeted, layered steel
[11:20]  Khuyildar Bluebird nods "that would make incredible strong and sharp swords
[11:21]  Khuyildar Bluebird: "layered steel" he must overthink this concept "how do the laye stick together?'
[11:22]  Nephtides: They are forged like this *grabs a napkin of thin rep, and folds it zigzaggedly*
[11:22]  Nephtides: then, they harden only the side with the all-closed folds
[11:22]  Nephtides: i would already be beheaded there, if they knew how much i could guess
[11:23]  Khuyildar Bluebird sees the handling "not unlike some earth-Gor layers of stoe, pressed together under the pressure o pasangs of rock above it"
[11:23]  Khuyildar Bluebird: stone*
[11:23]  Nephtides: fascinating
[11:23]  Nephtides: say.. you might know
[11:23]  Nephtides: *seems a bit anxious to ask*
[11:24]  Nephtides: Does, erm.. does rock flow, without heat?
[11:24]  Khuyildar Bluebird: "all theory, but some slavewe catched, said they are quite advanced in that field on the barbarian lands"
[11:24]  Nephtides: Cause we found a hammer of a torvaldian miner, and it was half in sandstone
[11:24]  Khuyildar Bluebird: i guess there will be heat, but not enough to melt it, otehrwise there would no longer be layers
[11:25]  Khuyildar Bluebird: a hammer in sandstone" he scratches his hair "thats indeed peculiar, because sandstone is very hard. This most be the work of the kings"
[11:27]  Nephtides: *nods* we have it here, i had it broken out
[11:27]  Nephtides: it´s not even a very old hammer. maybe 300 years
[11:27]  Khuyildar Bluebird: "yes, its worth examining"
[11:28]  Khuyildar Bluebird: "300 years, is a second in the forming of such rocks, such takes millenia, miljons of years"
[11:29]  Khuyildar Bluebird: "how did you measure the age of the hammer? "
[11:29]  Khuyildar Bluebird: how*
[11:29]  Nephtides: It´s the form mainly, Sir