Post by Daubee on Mar 13, 2008 0:19:59 GMT -5
He scrambled to his feet, his face a mask of hate, looked about, saw the slave goad, ran to it and whipped it from the wall.
I did not pursue him, not wanting to kill him.
He turned and I saw, in almost one motion of his finger, the goad switch to on, the dial rotate to the Kill Point. Then crouching, the goad blazing in his hand, he approached me warily.
Assassins of Gor, page 260
After the death of the Mother, Sarm and those who followed him, most of the Priest-Kings for he was First Born, fled from the chamber to fetch, as it was said, silver tubes.
These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the flame Death Mechanism. Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away. I think with one such weapon a man might have made himself Ubar of all Gor.
Priest Kings of Gor, page 229
I did not pursue him, not wanting to kill him.
He turned and I saw, in almost one motion of his finger, the goad switch to on, the dial rotate to the Kill Point. Then crouching, the goad blazing in his hand, he approached me warily.
Assassins of Gor, page 260
After the death of the Mother, Sarm and those who followed him, most of the Priest-Kings for he was First Born, fled from the chamber to fetch, as it was said, silver tubes.
These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the flame Death Mechanism. Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away. I think with one such weapon a man might have made himself Ubar of all Gor.
Priest Kings of Gor, page 229