Welcome to the bleeding edge of the style world, fashion fans. If you’re an ork or troll you’re nobody nowadays without some kind of tusk equipment.
What started as a street fashion on the streets of Seattle has gone global thanks to the adoption by Or’zet rappers.
Ork and troll tusks obviously sit proud of the lower jaw line and lower lip leading to them not being utilised in mastication, this little known fact has been the foundation of ork and troll youth bringing attention to their heritage.
Tusk adornment has become the thing of the nano.
In the beginning of this style statement by the angry youth of today, simple tusk caps and piercings where the extent of the choice available.

This breeder has got dis all backwards, it was my chummer, Dint, that got some steel caps for the next turf war. Meanest bite on the street. Bite like a barghest.
Kunk

Now the ork fashion gurus of the music world are sporting inlaid gems, enamel dying and even engraved tusks with inlaid gold.

Scan this. I was the first trog in the plex to have my tusks capped. Before I knew it every drekheel and charlatan was copying me. Frag even got breeders getting tusks to rip my style. So I change to gold inlays, fraggers rip that too. Try being an individual with every slitch copying you.
J.J.

Chummer, it’s a cross to bear being a fashion setter.
Decker

Frag you and the deck I gave you.
J.J.

For trolls there is plenty more room for self expression. Young trolls like Corwin Steel, lead guitar of the eco thrash band Pangea, have taken to horn carving. Steel sights his inspirations as the changeling performance artist Celia Mandrake. We are reliably informed Miss Mandrake has circuitry pattern UV inlays in her horns that makes for a dazzling display on stage.
Other examples of horn art start as simple as sanding smooth through geometric patterns/inlays, to as intricate as a depiction of DaVinci’s Last supper showcased at the UCAS national body art exhibit in New York.

My troll chummer got drunk and had his horns craved by the Spike’s current artist.
Nice job too, real hit with the larger ladies…..
Jin

It isn’t just troll meta-variants that are going for this. I am seeing patterned/inlaid and craved horns on changelings and cyber enhanced club goers. Of course it started much more fringe than this, classic dual evolution from the fetish and street styles.
Piewacket

Hope you DS's like this, feel free to embelish. If you don't like this now is the time for long, quiet introspection.

hmmm Lots of introspection going on
Thread necromancy!
I promise to let it drop after this.

Don't get me wrong it's interesting and I like it, kinda I actually like making fun of people with it, but it doesn't help my human mage much. Maybe on my next troll, ain't promising anything though

it's fantastic fluff, would make at worst a good news-clip for the next time a player asks what's on the trid.

all of my ork characters mod their tusks in some way. one of them has gold and copper wire inlaid into grooves in her tusks; another has his tusks scrimshawed.

I am glad it has found others that like the idea.

I can see it on trolls but selling to orks seems more exploitive. . For trolls it kind of goes with it. there's nothing more pathetic than some troll trying to hide her looks. Honey you're not passing as human. You're 10 feet tall-we all see you-so may as well stand proud and show off what you got. These ornaments would do that, but orks. No that's just trying to sell to a market that doesn't need them. Ork fangs, not tusks, fangs don't portrude as much and do get a lot of use in eating. having seen many an ork at the Big Rhino tease me about having 'puny little human teeth' to eat ribs with, I think any such ornamentation on orks would be a waste.

I think it is very nice that someone could take the time to design things to make the Changed Ones' lives better. They are bombarded with images in the media that are slender and smaller than they are which only reminds them of how terribly far they are from human. These things will help them develop their own sense of style and feel better about themselves.

Pendaric: If you'd like to get some press on the Horn Carving cultural write-up you did, we'd accomodate you. We would insert you as an NPC cultural reporter from MNN (Metahuman News Network) and you would do a piece on this for our blog. We'll illustrate it as well and give you credit.

Contact me at ghemcartographer@yahoo.com for further info.

Check my sig (From the Shadows) to see where it would be posted.

Sons of Sauron wants YOU!
*note - need more orkish looking emoticon*

hm, it occurs to me that i don't have any SoS characters. though i've always wondered what the hell orks have to do with some guy that can turn into a pterodactyl...

<---I always thought that one looked the most orcish. Even though the horns could be taken as elven ears in that case it be a banshee.

I, at least, do not want to see this place go the way of some fanboards with smilies for every single subject-related thing imaginable (UT-related boards and the OOTS boards, I'm looking at you).

~J

i think there are a lot of orks who would reject the value of being accepted as 'normal'. they would see it as a rigged game. humans get to define what 'normal' means, so 'normal' is always going to mean 'human'--therefore, the best a meta can hope for, within the rules of the game, is to be almost normal. i think a lot of orks would want to get out of the game entirely, give the finger to normality, and be themselves.

granted, 99% of them are going to be themselves by dressing and acting like who the media says they should dress and act like. people are sheep whether they have canines or tusks.

And orks, even more than people, are sheep. since tests have shown that they do have a diminished mental ability so they are more likely to be affected by media trends than are people.

Only in SR 3. In SR 4, they suddenly become mentaly normal as every other metahuman, and simply have a limit of how smart they maximally can get.

That is splitting hairs from a politically correct survey conducted by a pro-ork lobby. Stick with facts. It is a well known fact that changed ones are less intelligent and more brutal than real people are.

You're only saying that 'cause you're married to one.

My husband is human. I would not support the mixing of species. It only causes grief to the community in general.

So what? You're a ninja, for fracking sake!!! Ninjas are their own species, different from humans as are the other metatypes. You are quite now guilty of interspecies mixing. Don't you tell us anything about facts and truths, when you're an admitted killing machine that flips out and makes backflips in the shadows and other stuff.

Actually, studies from 2061, 2063, and 2064 all show quite clearly that Trolls are significantly more susceptible to influence than humans.

~J

that's inaccurate. trolls (and orks) are less likely to spot logical flaws in concepts they are presented with. therefore, it's easier to fool an ork or a troll into doing what you want them to do. more direct methods of influence, such as threats, work no better or worse on trolls than on humans.

As the years go by, the average IQ, EQ, and social aptitude scores for orks and trolls have been steadily increasing. 2 decades ago it was obvious in the studies that orks and trolls had diminished capabilities. These days the statistics compare favorably with all metatypes, with limitation only apparent at the top end.

Why? Well, the experts theorize a few reasons. First is that the first generations of orcs and trolls Goblinized, rather than being born that way. The traumatic nature of goblinization often lead to Brain damage, PTSD and psychosis. The second generation of gobliniods were usually raised by this first generation, who had notably poor parenting skills. Also, a hostile society (and diminished mental health) would push these groups to the lower ends of society, the edges, where education is neither readily available nor held in high regard. Most statistics you see for gobliniod mental ability do not normalize across economic class. Economic class has it's own (large) distinct effect on these scores, and to fail to account for it is unscientific.

Thus first generation orcs had terrific mental handicaps due to trauma. Second generation orcs had better metnal health but worse education. Both facts lead to significant difficulties performing on the standardized intelligence and social aptitude tests.

However, Third generation orcs were born to the comparitively more stable second generation orcs, many to parents who had come to terms with their identity, and so grew up in generally more positive environments. Also, societal prejudice had lessened somewhat, and comparatively more educational opportunities were available. Beginning with these third generation gobliniods, measured disparity between humans and gobliniods began to decrease. This increase in the tested abilities of gobliniods has continued for the last decade. As trends towards normalization of gobliniods continue, some researchers beleive that the difference may disappear altogether.

Snow Fox- a lot of corpers like to go slumming too. That doesn't mean they really think those people they mix with when they do so are their equals.

As a human I can only stand agast at the Humanis point of view. The majority of humans are lack lustre, savage sheep lead by the corporate spin doctors and lacking in indivduality or basic politeness. Humanis supporters are typified by a smug superiority leading to a patronising stance at best and mindless rudeness at worst. There is no excuse for poor manners.
By comparison the majority of orks leading a far more violent existance remember the essence of respect and civilisation, is to be civil.

I remember fondly meeting an unruly mob of Humanis yahoos and correcting their etiquette accordingly. Bigotry is such a course face of humanity.

Last group of orcs I met tried to rob and kill me. Last group of humans I met bought me drinks and partied with me til dawn. There is the difference.

Judge on individual terms not generic racial ones. If humans have a greater intellect why do they refuse to use it?

A very good point. and it shows the support of the liberal left who like to wave flags rather than really achieve things.

I do not support Humanis ideals that call for blood shed against changed ones. I believe they have rights and a place and should be pitied for their disadvantages but they should not be elevated to a degree that they are incapable of holding on their own.

For those who point out human/ork breeding. you are proving my ponit that orks are not at the same level as humans. Such horrors usually result in ork children. Orks breeding with orks do not breed humans. this is like the way that off spring of people genetically damaged by radiation pass that damage to their children.

Well not really 'post' in the case of orcs and trolls with goblinisation.

Orks and Humans are different. Orks are superior to humans in every way. The extinction of Human-kind within the next century is inevitable, as is the rise of Ork-kind as the dominant species on the planet. This is how it is and how it should be. Inferiors should not lament their end, but embrace it.