Barbarian Camp

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue May 05, 2009 11:32 am

EvilDustBooger wrote: But above all, sir, I am a professional.

That does greatly please my barbaric heart, sir.

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:29 pm

We take pleasure in your pleasure, sir.

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Tue May 05, 2009 2:56 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
EvilDustBooger wrote:Only a wench would parade around in a scanty little chain maille combo like that.
You don't get much protection from those small swatches.

The best defense has always been a good offence. (please note the glimmering Zweihaender)
And besides, knickers would tend to get a bit messy during those vigorous disembowelments.

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Wed May 06, 2009 6:55 pm

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:44 am

Wickerman at Butser Ancient Farm:
http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/wickerman.htm

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri May 08, 2009 6:55 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:Wickerman at Butser Ancient Farm:
http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/wickerman.htm

very nice......

I always loved the concept..............

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat May 16, 2009 3:52 pm

Here's the look that I am working on:

Firefist.Ace · Post by **Firefist.Ace** » Mon May 18, 2009 11:44 am

He just looks so happy to be a viking....but I suppose with the perks it would be hard to not be happy. Even a dog can see the benefits of "pillage and plunder till we can't fit anything else on the boat".

:lol:

Question: Have you gotten all the stuff in to make this an official theme camp? And how many people do you have in so far?

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:05 pm

Dougly, I think you might like this movie.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed May 20, 2009 9:45 am

Firefist.Ace wrote:Question: Have you gotten all the stuff in to make this an official theme camp? And how many people do you have in so far?

Thank you for asking Ace! Watch it, people will think that you're my sockpuppet.

I filed everything with the BMorg on time, even a little map showing where the brutality and devastation will take place. Unfortunately it looks like Geoshitties just dropped my website, possibly for eternity.

Our members are having a meeting in a high mountain fortress in June. On the agenda is how to provide accomodations for out-of-staters such as yourself.

Fear not. It won't help you anyway.

When theme camps become listed, we anticipate plenty of "me-toos".

All in good time.

Firefist.Ace · Post by **Firefist.Ace** » Wed May 20, 2009 10:45 am

Hey hey, just excited is all.

A crucial part of web-hosting is hosting things on the web. Geocities seems incapable of this. Always.

Just wanted to check on the officials and particulars of the whole thing. I'm still new to it all.

Let me know the scoop after your meeting in June (unless said knowledge of said meeting would incriminate said meeting's attendees...the less I know about the people who need to be...er..."removed from harms way"...to make this camp happen the better, right?)

No worries about providing a whole lot for us, really we don't need a whole lot more than a location and a camp to pitch in effort towards.

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Thu May 21, 2009 8:39 am

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Thu May 21, 2009 9:54 am

Welcome back, littleflower! I see you are doing your research.

Is that a Buscema?

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Thu May 21, 2009 12:12 pm

hey dougly!!! i'm just trying to hype myself up for combat ... i gotta make that fur bikini top soon ... gotta find me some purple velvet, too. so much to do! how's your costume coming? nice crown...

i'm still contemplating gryphons, too ...

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Thu May 21, 2009 12:28 pm

Purple velvet? For thy royal cloak, milady?

I am looking at leather scale armor from Tandy.

If you need help with the bunny fur or any other garment, I'd be glad to help.

I know more about sewing than most barbarians should admit.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Thu May 21, 2009 2:42 pm

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:40 pm

that is one fine piece of leather ... can't wait to see you in it ... !

a little barbarian inspiration:

[youtube][/youtube]

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:15 am

What a happy little family.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:51 pm

Discussions of mayhem continue here:
http://tribes.tribe.net/barbtheme

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:47 am

A Song of the Naked Lands

You lolled in gardens where breezes fanned
The blossom's shivering shard;
But we were bred in a naked land
Where life was bitter hard.

You raped the grapes of their purple soul
For your wine cups brimming high;
We stooped to the dregs of the muddy hole
That was bitter with alkali.

And you grew flabby and round of limb,
Short of nerve and breath;
But we grew rugged and lean and grim
In our naked grip with Death.

Silk was too harsh for your dainty skin,
Red wine too poor for your drought;
We hunted the holes that the rain stood in,
And stripped the wolf for our clout.

Round were your bellies, soft your hand,
Soft with the fat of earth;
Yours was the wealth of a smiling land,
Ours the desert's dearth.

You sang beneath the locust tree,
Forgetful of hunger and hate;
"It has always been, it will alway be!"
Even then we were at your gate.

You lolled by fountain and golden hall
Until that frenzied morn,
When we burst the gates and breached the wall;
And cut you down like corn.

We reaped the yield and we plowed the field
With red and dripping shares,
And you could not fight and you could not run,
You could only die like hares.

Grim was the barter, red the trade,
With dripping swords for coins,
And your women screamed in the trampled sand
With bruised and bleeding loins.

Skilled was the brain and skilled was the hand
That shaped the stubborn stone,
But the brain spilled on the bloody sand
When iron split the bone.

The hand that traced the gilded frieze,
That scrolled the written page,
It could not turn the driven steel,
Backed by the primal rage.

Of what avail the harp and lute,
Gemmed girdle and purple cloak,
When the dripping axe was smiting home
In the flame and the blinding smoke?

Blood smeared your satin and silk and lace.
You heard your children moan,
And your elders howled in the marketplace
Where we stripped them to them skin from bone.

And where your bearded judges sat
And bade men live or die
A naked slayer roared and waved
A bloody scalp on high.

Over the ruins arched and spired
The billowing smoke cloud waves;
And you who lived when the sword was tired,
You live but as our slaves.

Our hard hands clutch your golden cups,
Our rough feet crush your flowers;
We stable our horses in your halls,
And all your wealth is ours.

We have doffed our wolfskin clouts for silks,
We wear them clumsily,
Our eyes are bleak, our beards unshorn,
Our matted locks stream free.

But our sons will trim their beards and hair,
Don cloaks of crimson hue;
They will take your daughters to their beds,
Till they grow soft as you.

They will trade their freedom for harps and lutes,
Discard the bow and the dart;
The will build a prison of satin and gold,
And call it culture and art.

They will lie in the lap of a smiling land,
Till its rusts unman and rot them,
And they scorn their blood, and the calloused hand,
And their fathers who begot them.

But our brothers still dwell in the sun-seared waste
And their sons are hard and lank;
The will hunt the wolf-pack that we chased
And drink the water we drank.

The hungers we knew they too will know,
The scars of fangs and of briars;
In the rocks where the crouch when the sandstorms blow
The will find the marks of our fires.

They will know the hungers that we once had,
While the stream of centuries runs,
Till they burst from the desert, hunger-mad,
To slaughter our slothful sons.

Firefist.Ace · Post by **Firefist.Ace** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:11 pm

I like a song that tells a family story.

Wolfe · Post by **Wolfe** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:34 am

Found it. Ugly, are you still going with the obstacle course idea?

--Wolfe

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:38 am

Wolfe, indeed we are. Here's the discussion:
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=28154

And just to further embarass you:
[youtube][/youtube]

Talk to you soon!

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:56 pm

a grand weekend of planning and fabrication, re: Barbarian camp.
Thanks to all............
And, to Dougly for this great idea.

Wolfe · Post by **Wolfe** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:00 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:Wolfe, indeed we are. Here's the discussion:
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=28154

And just to further embarass you:
[youtube][/youtube]

Talk to you soon!

LOL all the more reason for me to work out and get a haircut

.

--Wolfe

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:31 pm

Thank you Ygmir and Wolfe. I wish I had heard from you earlier about Burningman, Ed. Have no fear! We will have other workshops and such!

The eplaya is really our primary point of contact, so you've come to the right place.

Hey, photobucket album with puzzling comments:
http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/dd22 ... barbarian/

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:32 am

a truly barbaric weekend! thanks, guys.

i am contemplating barbarian jewelry ... any ideas???

not sure how to wear this ... but i like it!

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:21 am

Wolfe · Post by **Wolfe** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:01 pm

littleflower wrote:a truly barbaric weekend! thanks, guys.

i am contemplating barbarian jewelry ... any ideas???

Personally, I was thinking something more like this (from this website: http://www.aboriginalsbykate.com/prim_jewelry.htm):

A little stereotypical, but a little more 'barbaric', so to speak. But hey-- whatever floats your boat

.

--Wolfe

P.S. I have one of the "Wheel Of Pain" pendants that Marto put out; I know I'll be wearing it

.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:04 pm

littleflower wrote:a truly barbaric weekend! thanks, guys.

i am contemplating barbarian jewelry ... any ideas???

not sure how to wear this ... but i like it!

with some of those bobbles, it may be a ben-wah type accoutrement.........