Notable Warriors or Bad guys that have died fighting alongside or with Slaine.

[Dandontdare]

Do you think Locusts has enough for a 500 word story yet? 

[locustsofdeath!]

As of now I can compile 500 words worth of names and be done with it  !

[TordelBack]

The Grapes of Roth

Who knew Dabnett wrote RPG supplements?

[ThryllSeekyr]

As of now I can compile 500 words worth of names and be done with it  !

Just say the word!!!

The Grapes of Roth

Who knew Dabnett wrote RPG supplements?

Let me see......

No, Matthew Sprange and Ian Barstow are behind it all and I keep getting the original Grapes of Wrath mixxed up with Of Mice and Men.

I see possible connection between Slaine & Ukko and the characters Lenny & George.

But who would be who, as I have to admit they aren't evenly matched

Perhaps Slaine possibly considered to be not as quick witted as his dwarven companion who finally bonks the warped one on the head with his own axe Brain-Biter after he makes speech about Living off the fatta of the land & tending to bunnies.g

Curtains for Slaine, John Steinback style.

I see a wealth of material to be mined for new Slaine resource.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck

Just imagine East of Eden reworked into Slaine the King or perhaps this could be a background story for Elfric and his brother Morholt.



Not that I know the story that well myself, I fo remember the television miniseries and the vivid memories of the leacherous priest portrayed by Richard Chamberlain  ansd was remarked at how he never seemd to age all that much.

The Red Pony xcould be background story for Nest growing up on a Dragon farm.

Books of Invasions, Tara

The gigantic scissor weilding Morholt and the other macrobe, sibling to Elfric Serpent-Eye. I think our leading man lops off his head.

Dragonheist  Even if you would never think of it as a character, Slaine did give it the name Brain-Biter and thus it must have hidden personality.

While being careful not confuse it with a magical intelligent weapon. Something no self respecting barbarian King would wield without a good resaon to.

It must be imbued with a sliver of the warped ones spirit. His preferred weapon, would be a natural exptension of his body through years of use and I think this is where it's spirit resides.

Then Slaine destroys it while splitting the diamond-hard skull of the Mata in half.

Then Slaine is now seen with the more familer axe with the fullmoon shaped double bitted edges.

Named Brain-biter so the unwary reader won't notice it's predeccsor has disappeared, but I have.

You could almost think of it as a notable warrior who fought along side Slaine.

Perhaps it might reappaer as ghoslty apparition before Slaine in a scene not unlike one from Macbeth

His words....

Is that a axe I see before me.
 

[ThryllSeekyr]

I was just thinking the entire collective of what I wrote on this thread made into lyrics and sung to the tune of Billy Joel's: We Didn't Start The Fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-A4QFHZBA

[TordelBack]

I was just thinking the entire collective of what I wrote on this thread made into lyrics and sung to the tune of Billy Joel's: We Didn't Start The Fire.

  Hah!  If I get a better laugh than that today I'll be surprised!

[ThryllSeekyr]

I made a Mistake Earlier

Just imagine East of Eden reworked into Slaine the King or perhaps this could be a background story for Elfric and his brother Morholt.

Not that I know the story that well myself, I fo remember the television miniseries and the vivid memories of the leacherous priest portrayed by Richard Chamberlain  ansd was remarked at how he never seemd to age all that much.

That must have been the Thornbirds  Off the top of my head, thats not even Steinbeck and I didn't really know what I was talking about there. So, it's not in the same context.

Anybody want help me withthe lyrics here.

We Didn't Start the Fire, Original Lyrics

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiov
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...

I think what I wrote would fit. It may not rhyme as much though.

[Dandontdare]

Check out "we didn't start the flame war" on you tube - very funny version. (can't provide a link as I'm at work and it's blocked)

[Dandontdare]

found it on the you tube thread:

flame war

[ThryllSeekyr]

Three verses so far....

It's may not rhyme and it's not perfect, but it's Slaine to tune of We didn't start the fire.


And So it begins.....


Mercenary, Cattle Rustler, Battlesmiter, ratty

little dwarven companion

Time-monster, Dinosaur, choked on rare toad, Heads

back to Gabla, consume it's heart, gain it's

strength, oh no a tavern brawl, Breathmasks, lots

& lots of skullswords...


As Slaine recalled his youth...


With fat King Grudnew's chosen one, Her name

NIamh, he got caught, at only nineteen, bound by

post in the village square, the warped one got

away, now into exile...   

In the Broch tower prison cell, Boag of the BLack Axe, He

& Slaine once fought, side by side at Dun Barc, by

Danu's battle cart. Now sucked dry by demon snake

in maiden disguise. Blathnaid, a dowry or two.


Now another flash back,


Red Branch knights, cattle raid, Samain feast,

KIng's Portion, Many heads, many tongues were

severed that day, Grand round hall, Gobhan Mac

Targ, caught red handed, by Slaine himself....


I haven't finished this yet, but it may go through some changes before I do the rest.

[TordelBack]

Banjo Patterson lives!  Brilliant, TS!

[ThryllSeekyr]

Thanks, but I wonder how ocust story is cominng along.

[Mike Gloady]

That stone SO wasn't her "navel" - it's her clit.  The right man stands on it and she screams?  Paging Dr Freud, paging Dr Freud.....

TS, you're a force of nature.

[locustsofdeath!]

Thanks, but I wonder how ocust story is cominng along.

If by "ocust", dear T/S, you mean me, my story is coming along just fine. In fact, I've sat down to tinker with it one final time before I post it. I hope you'll not be disappointed, as I've only used maybe ten names from the wonderful list you've compiled, but this list and this thread is an outstanding work in its own right. You have gone above and beyond to help a fellow boarder and I can give you enough thanks. And the start to your Slaine version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" is absolutely hilarious.

[ThryllSeekyr]

That stone SO wasn't her "navel" - it's her clit.  The right man stands on it and she screams?  Paging Dr Freud, paging Dr Freud.....

TS, you're a force of nature.

Thanks, but I wonder how ocust story is cominng along.

If by "ocust", dear T/S, you mean me, my story is coming along just fine. In fact, I've sat down to tinker with it one final time before I post it. I hope you'll not be disappointed, as I've only used maybe ten names from the wonderful list you've compiled, but this list and this thread is an outstanding work in its own right. You have gone above and beyond to help a fellow boarder and I can give you enough thanks. And the start to your Slaine version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" is absolutely hilarious.

Oh, I TYPO alot and espeically latley. It's because I watch the keyboard and not the screen, while I type. Visualising what I have written in my head as I go long. In my case, this isn't always what ends up on the screen.

I wrote another verse after some more [Slaine research....

Red Branch knights, cattle raid, Samain feast, KIng's Portion, Many heads, many tongues were severed that day, Grand round hall, Gobhan Mac Targ, caught red handed, by Slaine himself....
His final initiation complete.

By Lug, Sourland wanderer, Soth Indeed

Bareback ridden, a man's right,

Slaine recollects his Warriors Dawn.....

At twelve years, warrior training,

Spike the hair, woad on flesh,

Brain Balls, Tathlum,

Salmon leap, Yoke Pole

Sheild kick.....

Cullen of the wide mouth, bitter rival,

With a Gae Bolga, he planned, a simple accident,

Slaine fought back, spear foot ready,

first ever, Warpspasm, Tables turned

Now here lies Cullen..

Sent to the narrow house along with his dad.( Conn of a Thousand Battles)

Cathbad's pleased, Slaine 's final test,

In a tomb, One boy enters, one man leaves, and warped was he.

It overlapps from the start after reading this with the rest of what I had wrote origianlly, I thought it lost the rythym.

I may just overhaul the lot and begin again.