Caste of Sleen Trainers

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[Gnookie Hubbenfluff]

This is a sub-caste of the Caste of Animal Handlers: A large Caste category which contains many specific sub-castes, all concerned with the use and care of domestic animals in use upon Gor.

Other related Castes: Tarn handlers, Vart Trainers ,Drovers, and Goat Keepers

Duties
This caste concerns itself with the care, feeding and training of the Gorean Sleen.  The caste would also include Woodsman, Hunters, and Trackers who specialize in working with the animals as well as those who specialize in the sale, and rental of fully trained Sleen.

Caste colors
Black and brown

Note: This is not to be confused with the brown and black of the Woodsman. The difference is, the Sleen Trainer wears predominantly black with some brown accoutrements whereas the Woodsman would wear mostly brown with some black.  An easy way to distinguish between them would be the type of dress they would each wear.  A Sleen Trainer would logically wear light armor which would cover particularly the arms and shoulders from the claws and bites of his beasts whereas the Woodsman would wear light clothing that would allow him to move about freely in the forests.

Uses of Sleen:'
"Sleen are used for a multitude of purposes on Gor, but most commonly they are used for herding, tracking, guarding and patrolling." ---Slave Girl of Gor

"The five most common trainings are those of the war sleen, which may also be utilized as a bodyguard; the watch sleen, to guard given precincts; the herding sleen, which will kill only if the quarry refuses to be herded rapidly and efficiently to a given destination, usually a pen or slave cage; the trailing sleen, which is used, in leash, to follow a scent; and the hunter, which is trained to hunt and kill. It is next to impossible to use a hunter as a trailer, because, when the quarry is near, and the killing fever is on it, it will even turn and attack its leash holder, to free itself for the strike on the quarry. A trailer is usually a smaller beast, and one more easily managed, but it is, when all is said and done, a sleen, and trailers not unoften, at the hunt's end, their instincts preponderating, break loose for the kill. When they begin to become unmanageable, they must sometimes be killed. The hunters are used generally, of course, in the pursuit of fugitives, free or slave. Unleashed, they are not retarded in their hunt by the lagging of their keepers."  ---Witness of Gor

Herding
"We saw a sleen herding a girl back to the pen. She was turning about, crying, scolding it, but it, snarling, relentless,snapped at her, cutting at her heels with its fangs. She: before it, weeping, running to the pen.
Ivar and I laughed. "They are useful beasts in herding women," he observed." ---Marauders of Gor

"Too, some sleen are used for herding. They may be used, for example, to herd stripped free women, not yet em-bonded, to whom the coffle might seem an indignity. Many such women are only too eager then to be permitted to seek refuge within a warrior's tent, within which they will serve as, and be used as, a slave. After a free woman has been used as a slave she is usually branded. After that, what else is she good for? She may then be coffled, without reservation. An interesting application, similar to the above, occurs when free women, in the hope of escaping looters, chains, and flames, hurry by postern gates and obscure exits from a fallen city into the surrounding countryside. Those who are not promptly taken into custody, running into the arms of enemy soldiers, falling into fragilely roofed siege ditches, rather like capture pits, finding themselves unable to scale walls of curcumvallation, caught in slave wire, taken in slave snres or slave traps, and such, may be sought by trained sleen. Each woman is likely to mean silver in the coffers of the conquerors. The sleen are trained then to round up, herd, and drive these women to the enclosures, say, corrals or pens, waiting for them. Some sleen are even trained to hold down and tear the garmenture from such women before starting them on their journey toward their readied facilities of incarceration. Recalcitrant quarry are eaten. In any event, there are numerous uses for domestic sleen far more than it would be practical or convenient to enumerate." ---Swordsman of Gor

Tracking
"...tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked" ---Slave Girl of Gor

"I had thought it was trained to hunt tabuk with archers, but it clearly was not tabuk it hunted now.
I knew the look of a hunting sleen. It was a hunter of men." ---Beasts of Gor

"If we had hunting sleen," said the other, "and could find her trail, we would have her in our bracelets before dusk." ---Captive of Gor

"It is an excellent tracker," I said. Indeed, the sleen was a tenacious, indefatigable tracker, the finest on Gor. Its tracking skills had doubtless been evolved for the pursuit of game, but in the domesticated sleen, often carefully bred for generations, they often proved of great value to humans. It was not unusual for a sleen to locate and pursue a track which might have been laid down several days earlier. There have been documented cases of a sleen locating and following a trail put down more than a month earlier." ---Swordsman of Gor

"An obvious application of sleen is in hunting, say, tabuk, wild tarsk and such. A related application of sleen is in tracking fugitives, slave girls foolish enough to think they might escape, and such. Depending on the commands issued, the sleen will either destroy and feed on the quarry, or drive it to a pre-appointed destination, usually a cage, the gate of which the quarry, if it wishes to live, must close, and swiftly, therewith locking itself within." ---Swordsman of Gor

Guarding & Patrolling
"The uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after curfews; it may lurk in the halls of a great house after dark; it may deter thieves from entering locked shops; it may stand sentry upon wharves and in warehouses." ---Slave Girl of Gor

"The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, and are used to hunt humans; of the human-hunting sleen, some are trained merely to kill, and others to hurry the quarry to a Kurii holding area; one type of sleen is trained to destroy males and herd females, distinguishing between the sexes by scent." ---Marauders of Gor

"There are also guard sleen, which guard granaries, storerooms, warehouses, and such. they may, too, patrol the perimeters of camps, to prevent intrusions and unauthorized departures. Many a slave girl has been turned back at a camp's periphery, sometimes to be hurried back to her master, by the fangs of a sleen to whom her value and beauty are a matter of utter indifference." ---Swordsman of Gor

Prisoner Control
"There are many such uses to which the sinuous beasts may be put; an interesting use which might be mentioned is prisoner control; a tiny circle is drawn and the prisoner must kneel, or assume some prescribed position, within it; then, should the prisoner attempt to rise to his feet, leave the circle, or break the position in the slightest, the beasts tears him to pieces." ---Slave Girl of Gor

Other uses of trained sleen
"Aside from these common uses, sleen are put to other uses, too. In Thentis, for example, sleen are used to smell out contraband, in the form of the unauthorized egress of the beans for black wine from the Thentian territories. They are sometimes, too, used by assassins, though the caste of assassins itself, by their caste codes, precludes their usage; the member of the caste of assassins must make his own kill; it is in their codes. Some sleen are used as bodyguards; others are trained to kill in the arena" ---Slave Girl of Gor

Performing Sleen
"...others perform in exhibitions and carnivals. There are many uses to which such animals are put." ---Slave Girl of Gor

"We had been treated to exhibitions of juggling, fire swallowing, and acrobats. There had been a magician, who particularly pleased Kamchak, and a man who, whip in hand, guided a dancing sleen through its paces." ---Nomads of Gor

"It is common also on Gor to take troublesome or disobedient slaves, or recalcitrant slaves, or slaves who have not been fully pleasing, perhaps even in a quite minor way, either male or female slaves, and feed them to sleen. Indeed, sometimes slaves are fed to sleen simply for the amusement of the masters."  ---Fighting Slave of Gor

"Some other uses, which might be mentioned in passing, for mere purposes of illustration, would be that of the bodyguard, and that of an animal used in sport, as in racing, or fighting.  Ramar, for example, had been bred primarily as an arena animal, and, in his matches, had been a favorite amongst Kur gamblers." ---Swordsman of Gor

[Gnookie Hubbenfluff]

Types of sleen trained

• Most common - Prairie Sleen and Forest Sleen
  "There are many varieties of sleen, and most varieties can be, to one extent or another, domesticated. The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet. In the north, I am told the snow sleen has been domesticated. The sleen is a dangerous and fairly common animal on Gor, which has adapted itself to a variety of environments." ---Slave Girl of Gor
• Prairie Sleen - 7 feet in length
  "...farther to one side I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but quite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in length, furred, six-legged, mammalian, moving in their undulating gait with their viper's heads mov- ing from side to side, continually testing the wind" ---Nomads of Gor
• Forest Sleen - 20 feet long - 1,100 pounds
  "The animal was some twenty feet in length, some eleven hundred pounds in weight, a forest sleen, domesticated. It was double fanged and six-legged. It crouched down and inched forward. Its belly fur must have touched the tiles." ---Beasts of Gor

Most domestic (trained) sleen are bred
"Most domestic sleen are bred. It is difficult to take and tame a wild sleen. Sometimes young sleen, following the killing of the mother, are dug out of a burrow and raised. If they can be taken within the first two months of their life, which seems to be a critical period, before they have tasted blood and meat in the wild, and made their own kills, there is apparently a reasonably good chance that they can be domesticated; otherwise, generally not." ---Slave Girl of Gor

Even domestic, trained sleen may revert to wild
"Although grown, wild sleen have been caught and domesticated, this is rare. Even a sleen which has been taken young may revert. These reversions can be extremely dangerous. They usually take place, as would be expected, in the spring, during the mating season. Male sleen, in particular, can be extremely restless and vicious during this period." ---Slave Girl of Gor

[Gnookie Hubbenfluff]

If you have read this far, then you are apparently interested in either playing a sleen, or joining the caste, or you are a moderator, admin, or sim-owner and are interested in having sleen on your sim.

For up to date information, join my group, I <3 Sleen.  It is open enrollment, so perv my profile IC and add yourself and invite any of your friends who you think might be interested in helping the caste grow in sl-gor.

Where to purchase Sleen avatars:
currently using a slightly modified Komodo Dragon avi available at Grendel's Children.  The individual sleen needs to retexture to fur and copy the front legs, feet, claws and place them mid-torso to add the extra set of legs.  I was told they are working on a set of reptilian/mammals (i forget the name but they are basically the links between dinos and mammals).  So when they come out we'll be in much better shape, but for now the komodos are great.

Meter used
Gorean Beast Meter

Weapons used
Primus larl claws (40%)

Shield used
Primus Claw Shield*

*yes they use a shield. These are trained war sleen.  Im not going to put them in an arena or send them to war without at least putting some armor on them to protect them.  I can beat any of my sleen in melee combat.  If you cannot, well spar more then. =)

*NOTE: If you see them, RP with them. Do not just pew pew.  They are trained to interact with you if you give them the chance.  Just don't go petting them or thinking you can get all up in their face, or they will eat you.

Current Sleen Pits (post here or contact me IC if you would be willing to dedicate a few prims for a sleen pit)
Vonda: Camp contact either myself or Andro Muircastle
Landa: Contact either myself or Yuroki Uriza
Laura: Contact either myself or Taog Ra.
Tarnwald: Contact either myself or Randall Reich (note* sleen trained in tarnwald will be exclusive to the BC)

Sleen Friendly Sims (post here or contact me IC to be added if you will allow trained sleen to rp on your sim:
Vonda
Landa
Kazahr
Port Cos
Tarnwald
Cyprianus
Laura
Sais

[Sayrax wiefel]

landa I belive has a sleen

[Gnookie Hubbenfluff]

Aye. That is my sleen Snow.  She is not owned by Landa. 

She is just a bit of a rockstar and is loved there very much in the same way that Fluffy is loved in Vonda.   

They are both great Sleen and wonderful roleplayers.  As are my entire Sleen cadre. I'm very proud of them.

[Isabella Bergiere]

bump for Taog

[Taog Ra]

Bump.  Gnookie, please add Laura to your list of sleen-friendly sims.

Thank you,
T.

[Gnookie Hubbenfluff]

UPDATE: universal animal laws (rev a) sent to Turmus for review.

-- Animals:
- Animal avatars allowed (no speed enhancers)
- Animals on Gor were vicious... Extremely hard to tame.
- Small animals (noncombatants only) may be kept as pets (Giani, Jits, etc.)
- Larger animals can not be tamed (Larls, baby larls, tharls, etc)
- All beasts are expected to do 3 line kills as any man would.  Being a beast does not give one carte blanche to avoid roleplay.
- No scripted automatic combat animals allowed on the sim

--Sleen Laws:
- Only active members of the caste of sleen trainers are allowed to own sleen within city limits.  Otherwise, the Ubar/Admin should be able to provide rp logs of purchase from one of the caste of trainers.
- Trained sleen will be collared at all times and use beast meters with larl claws and claw shields. 
- Hunting sleen will not wear collars as they will be in their "true natural state."
-  Anyone who goes within the 12foot kill radius of a domesticated sleen does so at his or her own risk.  Yes they are trained, but they are still vicious beasts.  Domestic sleen will not be punished for killing someone who molests it.
-Uncollared sleen may be captured or killed on sight.

* WARNING:  Beasts are exempt from any time limits of roleplay prior to killing or being killed.  Use extreme caution around them and understand that if you fight a beast, it is more often than not, a fight to the death.