The Weekend Cultist
Bling
This is probably the last entry that I'll make before the battle, tomorrow night I'll make the badges for recruits to mark their first battle (it's nice to pass out a bit of bling), but tonight I'm going to write about being a casual cultist.
I've written previously about being a casual dodgy auntie/uncle (basically, go wild in your local $2 shop), but they don't have such a good line in sinister cultist. Just throwing on something black is a good start, I've posted previously about how you can glue together a robe out of black cloth, but maybe you don't have the time or the money. You could also wear a nametag, but perhaps you want something a bit more obvious. Here's something simple you can do to to show your allegiance to the Elder Gods.
Tentacle Motif Mask. Pulling faces isn't compulsory :-)
This is easy and simple to make in a hurry. You will need:
- A stapler
- A ruler
- Scissors
- Glue (PVA or a glue stick is fine)
- Ribbon, elastic or some other tie
- A printer
- A sheet of colored paper or thin card in an appropriate color like black, or dark green or red or purple.
I've tried to make these instructions as simple as possible, in case you've never done any craft type stuff before, ever. It's unlikely I know, but I'm a bit mental like that, so don't worry about it.
Instructions:
- Save and print this image (to A4). The basic outline is in blue, with the tentacle motif shown in red. You should feel free to experiment and change it if you like. You may need to play with the scale (try print settings, look for "scale") to get it more or less the right size, you'll see the edge is marked "86mm"; if it is it should be about right.
- Cut out enough of it to make sure it fits. If it's a little too big or small, go back to stage 1 and adjust the scale of the printout.
- Glue it to the colored paper or card (see image). BTW you'll notice that in these images that I don't have a notch at the bottom for your nose; don't worry about it, I added that to the pattern at the end to improve the fit. Anyway, don't worry about keeping the glue inside the lines either, you going to cut off everything around the edge anyway. Wait for the glue to dry.
- Cut around the edge of the pattern, and cut out the eyes.
- Attach the ties (see image). What you do here is that you staple it onto the back going inwards, as you can see on the right side of the image provided. Then you fold it over the staple and staple it again between the first staple and the edge, as you can see on the left of the image. This stops it pulling through.
That's it. You could stick glitter or extra eyes to it if you wanted to; run amok.