Post by Reese on Nov 30, 2011 23:00:10 GMT -5
Bola
The three weighted bola of the Wagon People, was originally designed and used in the hunting of Tumits, a large flightless bird of the Plains. Its description and purpose, clearly stem from the Native American bola, more particularly, the boleadora of the Southern-most areas of America. Early South American tribes used the boleadora in the hunting of rheas, a large South American ostrichlike birds called also the American ostrich.
Quotes:
Sometimes legs are broken. It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become. Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull. One entangles the victim with the bola, leaps from one's mount and with the quiva cuts his throat. ---Nomads of Gor, p 24
Spiked or bladed hand wraps:
These items, though little description is offered of them, are usually mentioned either in situations of gladiatoral style combats and the pit fights of fighting slaves or then simply as belonging to a particuar culture.
Quotes:
There were various matches in the pit of sand that evening. There was a contest of sheathed hook knife, one of whips and another of spiked gauntlets. ---Assassin of Gor, 10:
Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets. ---Assassin of Gor, 15:
The wooden shields of Torvaldsland no more stopped the great axes than dried skins of larma fruit, stretched on sewing frames, might have resisted the four-bladed dagger cestus of Anango or the hatchet gauntlet of eastern Skjern. ---Marauders of Gor, 14:
Cestus:
A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.
Quotes:
"That is no ordinary fighting slave," I told Kenneth. "No," said Kenneth, not looking back. "That is Krondar. He is a famous fighting slave of Ar." "His face," I said, half in awe. "In the pits of Ar," he said, "he has fought with the spiked leather, and with the knife gauntlets." ---Fighting slave of Gor, 25:
It would be difficult, once seen, to ever forget the massively scarred, misshapen countenance of Krondar, a veteran of many bouts with the spiked leather, and the knife gauntlets, in Ar. ---Guardsman of Gor, 10:
Kurii Beam Projector:
A handheld device big enough to fit comfortably in the hand of a Kur. This missile weapon fires a highly concussive heat blast, which strikes its target fiercely.
Kurii Dart Thrower:
A missile weapon of the Kurii, seen used by its agents and which can fire gas propelled darts of various types.
Quotes:
The men on either side of the cage cart carried some sort of projectile weapon. It feed, I conjectured, judging from the breech, a long, conical, gas-impelled dart. The principles of the weapon, I assumed, were similar to those of a rifle, except that the missile would not be a slug of metal but something more in the nature of a tiny quarrel, some six inches in length. The weapons had carved wooden stocks, reminiscent of a time in which rifles were the work of craftsmen. Eccentric designs surmounted these stocks. The actual firing of the weapon was apparently by means of a button in the forepart of the stock. Although this button could be depressed quickly it could not be jerked, as a trigger might be, either on a rifle or crossbow, an action which sometimes, in moving the weapon, ruins or impairs the aim. Each man carried a bag at his left hip. It contained, I supposed, among other accouterments, the missiles, or darts, for the weapon ---Beasts of Gor, 29:
Silver Tube:
Charged, cylindrical weapon which fires beams of flame lock, the substance used by Priest-Kings for the famed 'flame death'. This weapon of course, is found only within the nest of Priest-Kings.
Quotes:
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. --- Priest-Kings of Gor, 28:229
The three weighted bola of the Wagon People, was originally designed and used in the hunting of Tumits, a large flightless bird of the Plains. Its description and purpose, clearly stem from the Native American bola, more particularly, the boleadora of the Southern-most areas of America. Early South American tribes used the boleadora in the hunting of rheas, a large South American ostrichlike birds called also the American ostrich.
Quotes:
Sometimes legs are broken. It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become. Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull. One entangles the victim with the bola, leaps from one's mount and with the quiva cuts his throat. ---Nomads of Gor, p 24
Spiked or bladed hand wraps:
These items, though little description is offered of them, are usually mentioned either in situations of gladiatoral style combats and the pit fights of fighting slaves or then simply as belonging to a particuar culture.
Quotes:
There were various matches in the pit of sand that evening. There was a contest of sheathed hook knife, one of whips and another of spiked gauntlets. ---Assassin of Gor, 10:
Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets. ---Assassin of Gor, 15:
The wooden shields of Torvaldsland no more stopped the great axes than dried skins of larma fruit, stretched on sewing frames, might have resisted the four-bladed dagger cestus of Anango or the hatchet gauntlet of eastern Skjern. ---Marauders of Gor, 14:
Cestus:
A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.
Quotes:
"That is no ordinary fighting slave," I told Kenneth. "No," said Kenneth, not looking back. "That is Krondar. He is a famous fighting slave of Ar." "His face," I said, half in awe. "In the pits of Ar," he said, "he has fought with the spiked leather, and with the knife gauntlets." ---Fighting slave of Gor, 25:
It would be difficult, once seen, to ever forget the massively scarred, misshapen countenance of Krondar, a veteran of many bouts with the spiked leather, and the knife gauntlets, in Ar. ---Guardsman of Gor, 10:
Kurii Beam Projector:
A handheld device big enough to fit comfortably in the hand of a Kur. This missile weapon fires a highly concussive heat blast, which strikes its target fiercely.
Kurii Dart Thrower:
A missile weapon of the Kurii, seen used by its agents and which can fire gas propelled darts of various types.
Quotes:
The men on either side of the cage cart carried some sort of projectile weapon. It feed, I conjectured, judging from the breech, a long, conical, gas-impelled dart. The principles of the weapon, I assumed, were similar to those of a rifle, except that the missile would not be a slug of metal but something more in the nature of a tiny quarrel, some six inches in length. The weapons had carved wooden stocks, reminiscent of a time in which rifles were the work of craftsmen. Eccentric designs surmounted these stocks. The actual firing of the weapon was apparently by means of a button in the forepart of the stock. Although this button could be depressed quickly it could not be jerked, as a trigger might be, either on a rifle or crossbow, an action which sometimes, in moving the weapon, ruins or impairs the aim. Each man carried a bag at his left hip. It contained, I supposed, among other accouterments, the missiles, or darts, for the weapon ---Beasts of Gor, 29:
Silver Tube:
Charged, cylindrical weapon which fires beams of flame lock, the substance used by Priest-Kings for the famed 'flame death'. This weapon of course, is found only within the nest of Priest-Kings.
Quotes:
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. --- Priest-Kings of Gor, 28:229