🚀 go-pugleaf

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


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"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

    Let's see... names...
    "Majestrix" comes from Marvel Comic's Uncanny X-Men, the Majestrix being
Lilandra or Deathbird (in most cases Lilandra), the ruler of the Shi'Ar
Empire.
    "Time Goddess" was originally Ocean Goddess (my first B.Net character),
but my sister stole the name and wouldn't return it. So I got promoted (the
one thing the little runt was ever good for).
    "Elementality" is a contraction of "elemental" and "mentality". I was
thinking of things to stick on the end of the first, and ended up with the
psyche of a universe wielder. I'm beginning to see a trend...
    "Cal'Syee" is another from Marvel, because it sounds cool. It's what
Deathbird's name was before she was stripped of it by her parents- although
*technically* I found out about it during the Age of Apocalypse (Gambit and
the X-Ternals), and I don't think it was ever revealed in the current
universe or if she even lost it in AoA, so my story my not be completely
true.
    Then I had a few randomly mixed words, like "Sky Song" and "Wind Rider".
And I think I was the Fuzzy Purple Bunny of Doom From the Outer Space of the
Fifth Dimension of Reverse Vampire-Zombie Slayers Who Are Not Related to
Winky for about three seconds, but that's a story that I am contractually
bound not to divulge. And who is Winky? Why, people simply call him Winky-
Winky, the Dust Bunny Slayer.
    But he's not Elvis.
    Really.

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.

<snip>
  So what is your story?
>
    My posting name is Rob. Most people call me Rob. Some people who don't
know me too well call me Robert and I few I have known since childhood call
me Robbie. A few People I used to work with called me a certain nickname but
I'm not getting in to that. Overall every one really calls me Rob.
    My offline character names are Rob for a warrior, Roberta for a Rogue,
Robert for a mage, Robbie for a Barbarian, Robin for a Bard, and Prince Ali
for a Monk (Kinda ran out of names there)
    My Bnet characters are all taken from songs. Sultan'O'Swing(Was
Sultan'Of'Swing until I forgot the pass) pinball'wizard, and
Lucy'In'The'Sky. I also had a few others who no longer exist. Online I
mostly will go by either Rob or Sultan'O'Swing.

Squire Erthbender erthbender@aol.com2Dground (Erthbender) wrote:

<snipped all>

Landon was a munchkin D&D charcter of mine who was a F/T.  I started playing him
when I was about 8 (my bro the dm 10).  I have since converted him over to legit
D&D but no clue where the normal stats are ;-)  I got the name from my then
favorite actor Michael Landon and ever since then I have fallen in love with the
name Landon.  When I  joined dalnet Landon was taken so I just popped Lord in
front of it.  I had a Mage which I deleted (only 1st level) just cause.  His
name was Lord Mhoram from the Thomas Covanant Chronicles book 1 & possibly 2.
That's really all my characters' histories.  Altho when I play a Bard I will
prolly Call him Aurna Darkmoore.  That was the name of a mutant I came up with
for (I believe it was) a Super Heroes D&D type of game.  Aurna was his name...
and his last name Darkmoore came from Raymond E Feist's series called The
Serpent War Saga. 

Shorgan SP MageFighter LVL 41 & counting

I'm off to kill Diablo, the wonderful Diablo from hell!

IRC the ONLY way to play! User of mIRC, ICQ, AIM, & many others!!

Bad feelings don't add up to ressurection! ~ Randy Quaid The Wraith

Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the waaaaabit!

I have to ask, whats dalnet?

--
"Never argue with a moron, they'll drag you down to their level, and
beat you with experience."
-Anonymous

Lord Landon wrote in message <3772f0c7...@netnews.voicenet.com>...
>Squire Erthbender erthbender@aol.com2Dground (Erthbender) wrote:
>
><snipped all>
>
>Landon was a munchkin D&D charcter of mine who was a F/T.  I started
playing him
>when I was about 8 (my bro the dm 10).  I have since converted him over to
legit
>D&D but no clue where the normal stats are ;-)  I got the name from my then
>favorite actor Michael Landon and ever since then I have fallen in love
with the
>name Landon.  When I  joined dalnet Landon was taken so I just popped Lord
in
>front of it.  I had a Mage which I deleted (only 1st level) just cause.
His
>name was Lord Mhoram from the Thomas Covanant Chronicles book 1 & possibly
2.
>That's really all my characters' histories.  Altho when I play a Bard I
will
>prolly Call him Aurna Darkmoore.  That was the name of a mutant I came up
with
>for (I believe it was) a Super Heroes D&D type of game.  Aurna was his
name...
>and his last name Darkmoore came from Raymond E Feist's series called The
>Serpent War Saga.
>
>Shorgan SP MageFighter LVL 41 & counting
>
>I'm off to kill Diablo, the wonderful Diablo from hell!
>
>IRC the ONLY way to play! User of mIRC, ICQ, AIM, & many others!!
>
>Bad feelings don't add up to ressurection! ~ Randy Quaid The Wraith
>
>Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the waaaaabit!

The Real Jay wrote in message <7l0cct$k66$1...@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>...
>I have to ask, whats dalnet?

    It's an IRC server.

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Gates, pirates of silicon valley
<--See some one does have more women problems than me.

Side note, Shorgan (my SP MageFighter) was an AD&D charcter I used



Shorgan SP MageFighter LVL 41 & counting

I'm off to kill Diablo, the wonderful Diablo from hell!

IRC the ONLY way to play! User of mIRC, ICQ, AIM, & many others!!

Bad feelings don't add up to ressurection! ~ Randy Quaid The Wraith

Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the waaaaabit!

: <snip>
:   So what is your story?
:>

Well, -Tymme- is just suitably archaic spelling, but the name Tymme
for a sorceror is directly taken from the sorceror Tim in the film
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

When I had long hair, I look a lot like the actor (Billy Connolly)
who played the part, plus I am from Scotland and a fan of his from
way back.

My warrior, Skarphedhin, is named after the son of Njall in the
Icelandic saga, who used to scare the daylights out of everyone by
grinning at them.  The scene in Njall's saga where he is absolute
death on skis is just wonderful.  This book alone is worth learning
Old Norse for.

As for ConcntratedEvul--see Time Bandits.

-Tymme-          sorceror
Skarphedhin      warrior
ConcntratedEvul  chat unit

-- 
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Department of Integrative Biology, Thomson Laboratory
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos         --         the only sysadmins that matter

My posting name is Perrin, from the Wheel of Time, overelaborate series yes,
but I do feel something for the character. My common game nicks are Perrin
Wrath, Perrin Lord Wrath, Perrin ElfSong (if spell-based). I like
permutations of the 2 words Perrin and Wrath.

--
cheers
Perrin
per...@onecooldude.com
I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

> My posting name is Perrin, from the Wheel of Time, overelaborate series
yes,
> but I do feel something for the character

An overelaborate story?  Hrm, well, I guess I see where you would say that.
But an excellent piece of fantasy fiction all the same!

<snip>

My posting name, Chrystophylax, comes from an esoteric short story by J.R.R.
Tolkein, called "Farmer Giles of Ham."  Chrystophylax is an extremely
devious dragon who figures prominently in the story.  It is worth a read, if
you can put your hands on it.  It is in the Tolkein reader, i do beleive.

As for my Diablo characters, there are Trismesjistus, Cattie-Brie, and
Conhobair.  Trismesjistus is old Greek, and means "Thrice Majestic."  It was
a name often appended to the god Hermes. He was called Hermes Trismesjistus,
in some of the sources.  Cattie-Brie is a character in R.A. Salvatore's Dark
Elf series.  She wields a magical bow with a quiver that never runs out of
arrows.  What better name for a rogue?  Conhobair is the name of an Irish
high king (semi-mythological, i.e. King Arthur...).  The descendents of
Conchobair , of which I happen to be, (I'm waiting for my letter that says i
am next in line for the Irish throne <g>) took the name O'Conchobair,
meaning descendent of Conchobair, which has been Anglicized to "Conner,"
which happens to be my surname.

And now you know :)

You know, I can't say when or where, but I do believe I've read that story!
I think...  It sounds familiar.. well, anyway, my posting name (Jodo Kast)
comes from Star Wars, cause I didn't want to be another Boba Fett clone but
thought the helmet was neat :)- Jodo Kast is another Bounty Hunter who wears
Mandalorian Armor...
My B.Net chars -DMentia (a rogue) and.. umm... well my War somehow got
deleted, I still can figure out how, But DMentia comes from Piers Anthony's
Xanth series, she's a Demoness with a soul (really Dmentia or something
but.. it's close enough :)
I realize your probably wondering who the heck I am, well, I'm a lurker,
and've been here for about a month and a half :)

/me lurks back into the shadows
Jodo Kast

Chrystophylax wrote in message <7kvd6q$1c...@enews2.newsguy.com>...
><snip>
>
>My posting name, Chrystophylax, comes from an esoteric short story by
J.R.R.
>Tolkein, called "Farmer Giles of Ham."  Chrystophylax is an extremely
>devious dragon who figures prominently in the story.  It is worth a read,
if
>you can put your hands on it.  It is in the Tolkein reader, i do beleive.
>

>  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?

Well, as for all my "Harpoon" characters, I had once had characters named
Harpoon_of_Fire and Harpoon_of_Ice (Sorcerer and a rogue, respectively), and I
liked the name theme. When I made HellHarpoon-OSH, I wanted something new, and I
couldn't think of anything better. :)

And my Hellfire characters, well, they're easily recognizable as characters from
"M*A*S*H" -- I love that show. :)
-- 
Chris Troute
HellHarpoon-OSH L31 Warrior (Diablo)
2-Antares-OSH L8 Sorceror (Diablo)
HellHarpoon-IM L1 Ironman Warrior (Diablo)
HawkEye~Pierce L7 Bard (Hellfire)
Radar~O'Reilly L5 Rogue (Hellfire)
Trapper~John L4 Monk (Hellfire)
All 100% legit, non-purist
[163] barrels killed since Jun 16-99

R-Dog is my post name and it's short for Reservoir Dog which is the name of my
fantasy baseball team, the Reservoir Dogs.  That name is from the Quentin
Tarantino movie by that name.

Cuchoolan is a Celtic mythical figure.  It's usually spelled Cuchulain, but B.net
wouldn't let me have that.  The Cuchoolan spelling is from Frank McCourt's book,
Angela's Ashes.  The "ch" is a gutteral "h" sound, so it's pronounced Coo - HOO-
lan.

Sun_Ra  is the name of a deceased improvisational jazz musician.  He is known for
his long nonsensical monologues and coined the phrase, "Space is the place."

That's all I have on B.net, but future characters will all be jazz music names.

Erthbender wrote:

>   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

Didn't Homer Simpson have a Jazz name? I'm thinking it was "Bleeding Gums
Lemon-Lime Simpson" or something like that. Or maybe that was his Blues
name. Hmm.... might be time to get that CD out.

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R-Dog <Reservo...@hotmail.EATSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:3773752F.17283D80@hotmail.EATSPAM.com...
> R-Dog is my post name and it's short for Reservoir Dog which is the name
of my
> fantasy baseball team, the Reservoir Dogs.  That name is from the Quentin
> Tarantino movie by that name.
>
> Cuchoolan is a Celtic mythical figure.  It's usually spelled Cuchulain,
but B.net
> wouldn't let me have that.  The Cuchoolan spelling is from Frank McCourt's
book,
> Angela's Ashes.  The "ch" is a gutteral "h" sound, so it's pronounced
Coo - HOO-
> lan.
>
> Sun_Ra  is the name of a deceased improvisational jazz musician.  He is
known for
> his long nonsensical monologues and coined the phrase, "Space is the
place."
>
> That's all I have on B.net, but future characters will all be jazz music
names.
>
> Erthbender wrote:
>
> >   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
>

Well, Nikin is just Niki with a "N" on the end...

--
Draco Dormeins Nunquam Titillandus

My name is James. When on b.net ((starcraft)) people didn't want to waste
time by writing it out so they wrote J. My freind started using it and
eventually I came to be called Jay (When I said J they assumed it to be
short for Jay).  One day, on AHSC there was a guy, also by the name of Jay,
trying to be an imposter of me. I found out very soon becuase he posted
newbie stuff and made stupid comments towards Ng elders. I asked him to
please change his name a his trying to be an imposter wasn't very
comfortable for me. He cursed me out. So instead of taking offense I just
changed my name to The Real Jay. Once I announced the name change he never
posted again. Weird. (Absolutely true story. You can probably look up some
of the posts on deja.com, but our argument was through email)
--
"Never argue with a moron, they'll drag you down to their level, and
beat you with experience."
-Anonymous

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

Erthbender wrote:
> 
My Dutch surname has a part with mice in it, I decided to keep the mouse
part and just make up names with them, very easy no great great story
there I'm afraid

-- 
  )
 (__
 _  )_
(_)_(_)
 (o o)
==\o/==

Mousehill, lvl 50 Warrior
Mousehill~Ret, lvl 38 Warrior
Magic-Mouse, lvl 45 Mage
Lady~Mouse, lvl 36 Rogue
Mousetrap, lvl 28 Mage
Mighty`Mouse, lvl 33 Warrior
Mousefield, lvl 1 Ironman Warrior
MickeyMouse~Ab, lvl 25 Abysmal Warrior

>From the gossip mill: "In Diablo 2, Gillian will be able to cast a spell
of mousetrap"

Well, I use Rich)G( for my talking Golem (warrior) because, oddly enough
it's the name I post under and I get confused trying to keep track of
people's names. : )

There is a terrible rumor that someone is logging on from my account as
BKDaemon, but I would certainly never take that name as my own as that would
mean that I had created a character for the soul purpose of destroying
barrels. It would also imply that there were some games where I went through
and killed barrels only and didn't kill monsters. I am trying to keep my
probation in the DoW as short as possible so wouldn't take part in any of
this sort of terrible behavior. I can't believe someone would use my account
to do this, but there's no end to what those evil critters over in the LOS
will do. Hopefully that rumor has been put to rest now.

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Erthbender <erthbender@aol.com2Dground> wrote in message
news:19990624194326.01113.00004981@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

>
>One day, on AHSC there was a guy....
>
I meant on AGSC (alt.games.starcraft)

--
"Never argue with a moron, they'll drag you down to their level, and
beat you with experience."
-Anonymous

The Real Jay wrote in message <7l0brf$iam$1...@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>...
>My name is James. When on b.net ((starcraft)) people didn't want to waste
>time by writing it out so they wrote J. My freind started using it and
>eventually I came to be called Jay (When I said J they assumed it to be
>short for Jay).  One day, on AHSC there was a guy, also by the name of Jay,
>trying to be an imposter of me. I found out very soon becuase he posted
>newbie stuff and made stupid comments towards Ng elders. I asked him to
>please change his name a his trying to be an imposter wasn't very
>comfortable for me. He cursed me out. So instead of taking offense I just
>changed my name to The Real Jay. Once I announced the name change he never
>posted again. Weird. (Absolutely true story. You can probably look up some
>of the posts on deja.com, but our argument was through email)
>--
>"Never argue with a moron, they'll drag you down to their level, and
>beat you with experience."
>-Anonymous
>
>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
>
>

Dysentery_Bob wrote in message <01bebf7f$af3b3f40$42870a3f@hpcustomer>...
>After giving up my evil ways, I decided to take a name with some humor or
>to have a cast of characters that people could identify with. I mean after
>swimming through the public channels and public games and seeing names that
>were as common as cock roaches or had no originality, I wanted to create
>something that was original. I mean a Rogue that had an eye problem, you
>have to see the irony there. Or a mage that was so inept that he can not
>solve his wife's bad cooking or even worse, a mild case of Dysentery. Or a
>Warrior who has to wear Depends because of a weak bladder.
>These are characters that are to poke fun both at the game as well at the
>creator, for me it is a rise when someone would address me at Best Buy,
>"Damn, your Dysentery_Bob
    Um Bob, the guys at the computer store actually know you from
battle.net, and this happens often. This is kinda sad and shows you've been
playing way too much.

> I very much prefer Tolkien really.
*nods* See my post as to where my posting name comes from :)

>Just waiting for Jordan to finish the
> story already! :)

Word.

I am the wizard of what was.  I started repairing old Nova 1200
computers in the mid 70's, and became one of the best in the
country at doing what I did.  I had to repair everything on the
system (cpu's, monitors, tape drives, disc drives, plotters,
digitizers,  printers). And when I say repairing, I mean down to 
the chip lvl. Anyway to make a long story short, the technology
today has put me out of work. That's where the "was" comes from.
The Wizard comes rom a cartoon I saw on a customers bulletin
board, of a Wizard waving a magic wand at a cpu to fix it.  The 
caption read, " I don't know, but I think he's from CV." and somebody
had penciled in "Fast Eddie?  Charlie?"  Well the Sys. Mgr. saw
me looking at it, and I said "I take it that that is a complement."
And he said that it was. So that is the story of my handle.  Different
and unique.  As a side note, Fast Eddie taught me the first thing to
do in computer repair.  Be lazy, go for the easy stuff first.  90% of the
time it's an easy fix.  In and out and no call backs.  I hated call backs.

wizofwas

Crush all of the evil barrels

Well... about a million years ago (or maybe more like 10) I spent a
lot of time doing assorted BBS Games (aka door games).  Favorites were
Global Wars, Legend of the Red Dragon, TradeWars, etc.   Anywho -
there was this guy who was into Star Wars.  This guy also annoyed
me.... often.   So, I decided my handle should be something that would
really cheese him off.  Thus, the name Handy_Solo was born.  Ever
since then its just kinda stuck...  odd, eh?  At least 10 years later
I'm still using the silly thing.

Next came the Rogue - Henrietta_Solo.  Not much to explain.  Just a
play on the name.

My mage is named Darken_Solo.  Loosely based on Darken_Rahl (go read
the Terry Goodkind series!).  A friend already had the name
Darken_Rahl - and I seemed to be gravitating to '_Solo' so there you
go.


erthbender@aol.com2Dground (Erthbender) wrote:

> 
>   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

-- 
Handy_Solo aka Chris Kasten 
(handy...@munged.pobox.com)
icq# 7603936
bnet# 3103947
http://www.kastenracing.com/chris/

After giving up my evil ways, I decided to take a name with some humor or
to have a cast of characters that people could identify with. I mean after
swimming through the public channels and public games and seeing names that
were as common as cock roaches or had no originality, I wanted to create
something that was original. I mean a Rogue that had an eye problem, you
have to see the irony there. Or a mage that was so inept that he can not
solve his wife's bad cooking or even worse, a mild case of Dysentery. Or a
Warrior who has to wear Depends because of a weak bladder. 
These are characters that are to poke fun both at the game as well at the
creator, for me it is a rise when someone would address me at Best Buy,
"Damn, your Dysentery_Bob?!?" Or even better would recognize my creation
from AGD.  Last of all, I believe that its is far better to pick a name
that had humor and showed that I am fun to play with and that I can take a
joke, damn if you look at all the past posts here, you can see how many
posts that poked fun at my creations. Though I know it JEALOUSY that make
those very weak people make fun at what they don't understand or
comprehend. :-P Anyway who wants to be known as GOD or some other name that
tries to inspire awe or fear, but only makes one laugh at such a
unimaginative name. 

BTW : PLEASE dont be offended in what I say, this is all the thoughts I had
bouncing around in my head or to put it better its all IMHO. 


 
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Mike  who has a Lazy Eye, suffers from Dysentery which forces him to wear
Depends, but all of these problems can be traced to his being Inbred.
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>back up people when things get rough.  So what is your story?


Oy vey LOL Well on bnet I am SirensVoice. I wanted SirensSong but SOMEONE
who shall remain nameless already was using it soooooo I went with the next
best thing VBG Turns out it was a good choice after all and I much prefer it
now 8)

Here and on several other boards I am Sliver and much to everyones shock LOL
It is not based on the Sharon Stone movie thank you very much! 8) It is in
reference to being bit one to many times by idiots online and I became a
Sliver of Crystal smooth to the touch, sharp and biting if messed with.
Fragile in essense yet contains beauty. (Scary how deep we get over just a
net name eh? ROFLMAO)

In a World full of Insanity
Here I Stand!
Sliver

Are you SERIOUS??? Whoooo Hooo, I am famous!!! Now all I have to do is take
those Photos of myself off that lame wall in the post office. :-P
-- 
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Mike  who has a Lazy Eye, suffers from Dysentery which forces him to wear
Depends, but all of these problems can be traced to his being Inbred.
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Rob <r...@lvcm.com> wrote in article <93036772...@news.remarQ.com>...
: Dysentery_Bob wrote in message <01bebf7f$af3b3f40$42870a3f@hpcustomer>...
: >After giving up my evil ways, I decided to take a name with some humor
or
: >to have a cast of characters that people could identify with. I mean
after
: >swimming through the public channels and public games and seeing names
that
: >were as common as cock roaches or had no originality, I wanted to create
: >something that was original. I mean a Rogue that had an eye problem, you
: >have to see the irony there. Or a mage that was so inept that he can not
: >solve his wife's bad cooking or even worse, a mild case of Dysentery. Or
a
: >Warrior who has to wear Depends because of a weak bladder.
: >These are characters that are to poke fun both at the game as well at
the
: >creator, for me it is a rise when someone would address me at Best Buy,
: >"Damn, your Dysentery_Bob
:     Um Bob, the guys at the computer store actually know you from
: battle.net, and this happens often. This is kinda sad and shows you've
been
: playing way too much.
: 
: 
: 

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:06:33 GMT, lordl...@hotmail.com (Lord Landon)
wrote:

>I had a Mage which I deleted (only 1st level) just cause.  His
>name was Lord Mhoram from the Thomas Covanant Chronicles book 1 & possibly 2.

Yup, Mhoram is in both book 1 and 2. He's just a lord in book 1, High
Lord in book 2 :-) His shade also shows up somewhere in the Second
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant :-)


ald
"Knowledge is Power"
reply via e-mail to a717 at erols dot com
RealSisterALD (level 33 Rogue)
ald987 (level 20 Warrior)
GandalfTheGreyt (level 12 Sorceror)

I very much prefer Tolkien really. Just waiting for Jordan to finish the
story already! :)

--
cheers
Perrin
per...@onecooldude.com
I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:38:48 -0400, "Sliver" <wil...@email.msn.com>
wrote:

Hi Sliver,

>Oy vey LOL Well on bnet I am SirensVoice. I wanted SirensSong but SOMEONE
>who shall remain nameless already was using it soooooo I went with the next
>best thing VBG

Hehehe no idea who that would be <G>



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>Yup, Mhoram is in both book 1 and 2. He's just a lord in book 1, High
>Lord in book 2 :-) His shade also shows up somewhere in the Second
>Chronicles of Thomas Covenant :-)

Sure does ;-) as do a few others if I aint mistaken ;-)

Shorgan SP MageFighter LVL 41 & counting

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Chrystophylax wrote:

> <snip>
>
> My posting name, Chrystophylax, comes from an esoteric short story by J.R.R.
> Tolkein, called "Farmer Giles of Ham."  Chrystophylax is an extremely
> devious dragon who figures prominently in the story.  It is worth a read, if
> you can put your hands on it.  It is in the Tolkein reader, i do beleive.
>
> As for my Diablo characters, there are Trismesjistus, Cattie-Brie, and
> Conhobair.  Trismesjistus is old Greek, and means "Thrice Majestic."  It was
> a name often appended to the god Hermes. He was called Hermes Trismesjistus,
> in some of the sources.  Cattie-Brie is a character in R.A. Salvatore's Dark
> Elf series.  She wields a magical bow with a quiver that never runs out of
> arrows.  What better name for a rogue?  Conhobair is the name of an Irish
> high king (semi-mythological, i.e. King Arthur...).  The descendents of
> Conchobair , of which I happen to be, (I'm waiting for my letter that says i
> am next in line for the Irish throne <g>)

Hehehe, did they tell you that on one of those "print out your family history"
computers that sit at every tourist site in Ireland? Conner has got to be in the
top five most common Irish surnames, a couple of few tens of thousands in
greater London alone :)
Alex (token Brit)


> took the name O'Conchobair,
> meaning descendent of Conchobair, which has been Anglicized to "Conner,"
> which happens to be my surname.
>
> And now you know :)

Hmm.

My posting name is Derek K. because, well . . . it's me name.

My b.net characters have morphed a lot, but my current names that I've
played for a while now are Eshu-Nae'Blac, Kylea-Nae'Blac and
T'lann-Nae'Blac.  Started out with Eshu - mythical wandering figure type
thing, also a type of fae in Changeling: The Dreaming.  And a very
spiffy sounding name, I thought.  Then, once I made a new character,
Kylea (Rogue - just sounded nifty) I decided to give them all a last
name so that it would be easy to tell they were related.  Then my mage
came around (T'lann - just sounds vaguely eastern, and I like it), got
the last name.

Not real creative like.  My Ret. rogue was named Slythe, after another
mythological being, my monks tend to be named Horus, Anibus, etc -
Egyptian gods and the like.

Hmm.

Cheers,
Derek K.
-=-=-
If voting could change things, it would be illegal

<snip>
> Hehehe, did they tell you that on one of those "print out your family
history"
> computers that sit at every tourist site in Ireland? Conner has got to be
in the
> top five most common Irish surnames, a couple of few tens of thousands in
> greater London alone :)
> Alex (token Brit)
</snip>

Not exactly.  My family is somewhat, hrm, interested with its history.  We
have done a good bit of research on the subject.  The story of King
Conchobair, king of the Irish, is a matter of historical fact.  Feel free to
look it up (as I have done).  Now I don't mean to claim royal descent
(although it is possible, I guess, and wouldn't that be cool)  as the name
Conner has arisen from a couple of other unrelated places.  But everything I
said is a matter of historical fact, and has nothing to do with any "print
out your family history" computer at a tourist site anywhere.

Eek the cat is where Winky the dust bunny Slayer comes from