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Article #114798Re: What's up with your name?
From: Purple
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:00
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My names aren't really original =) Magician! is my sorcerer, and, well...:) PurpleDragon~ is my hack-rogue, and it's purple, it's a dragon, 'nuff said. Evul`Purple does this really need explaining? and so on -- "1998, the Year of Contrast, brought us Viagra and Linda Tripp." http://bounce.to/purple - go there. NOW. "Multitasking: noun: screwing up several things at once" "It's not paranoia if they're really after you." "We're all looking in the same direction, we're all seeing quite the same thing. You're looking at me and I'm looking at you, BUT WE'RE ALL GOING INSANE!" Erthbender wrote in message <19990624194326...@ng-fi1.aol.com>... > > Serveral months ago there was a post about the names people give there >characters and the reasons behind them. We have many new faces now, so I will >ask and explain my own. > > I used to play DnD and I subscribed to TSR's magazine Dragon. A few years >ago an editorial was written; the subject; developing a detachment from your >character. The writer was one who really went into the develpoment, detailing >everything. The DM he ran across was one who loved to throw the largest of >challenges to his players. They off course ran headlong into each other. BAM! >Character Death. This upset the writer but he plugged on and a few quick rolls >came up with ELF2. Bam! Death of ELF2. This went on and on. Massive challenge >followed by relentless determination. ELF3, ELF4, ELF5 etc, etc. What he >ended up learning was, care about what you are doing, but remember it is just a >game and not to get too worked up over. > > So as a reminder to myself I named my character Dayna after a thief character >I had in a failed story, and 7 as a lucky number. But if she bites it, she is >but one of a potential many. There is always another. > > My posting name, Erthbender, comes from a Marvel Superheros RPG character I >had. He laid low in the group, but rushed out to retrieve fallen allies and >back up people when things get rough. So what is your story? > >Erthbender >Dayna7 on B net >drop 2Dground from the address to reply
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From: "Purple" <annih...@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: What's up with your name? Date: 1999/06/24 Message-ID: <7kuodb$md4$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net> X-Deja-AN: 493609056 References: <19990624194326.01113.00004981@ng-fi1.aol.com> X-Server-Date: 25 Jun 1999 02:09:47 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Newsgroups: alt.games.diablo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit