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I was looking for something that sounded neat, so I started with Greek mythological names and played around with them until I came up with this one. Now unfortunately I have something so hacker-esque that I can't use my email on resumes. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
Hmmm... my name is Joe Mandala. Back when, video games would only let you use 6 characters (quite an upgrade from the previous 3-character limit) to identify yourself on the high score board. That left me joeman. It seems to have stuck.
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"In time of crisis, it is of the utmost importance not to lose one's head" -M Antoinette
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Aldaron:
[B]Cool idea, Styro...
My name is from my longest-running AD&D character from years ago (circa 1987, I believe).
Aldaron Stonewalker was a ranger who served as a scout in his nation's military during a great war. He spent much of his time leading raids with the dwarves of the Stone-Step Mountains (hence his name) and ended up something of a hero.
His name was based on an obscure being of power (one of the Valar, IIRC) from the Tolkien mythos: Aldaron, the Lord of Forests or somesuch - I thought it was appropriate for a ranger.
I believe that would be Olorin, which was Gandalf's name in Aman (where the "gods" hang out). The ranger/hunter 'god' was Orome (with umlauts over the 'e').
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Aldaron:
Cool idea, Styro...
My name is from my longest-running AD&D character from years ago (circa 1987, I believe).
Aldaron Stonewalker was a ranger who served as a scout in his nation's military during a great war. He spent much of his time leading raids with the dwarves of the Stone-Step Mountains (hence his name) and ended up something of a hero.
His name was based on an obscure being of power (one of the Valar, IIRC) from the Tolkien mythos: Aldaron, the Lord of Forests or somesuch - I thought it was appropriate for a ranger.
I believe that would be Olorin, which was Gandalf's name in Aman (where the "gods" hang out). The ranger/hunter 'god' was Orome (with umlauts over the 'e').
I'm just one more person who borrowed the name of the character they play the most. Commander Shannon Powers is a hot pilot type in our STNG/DS9 games. Likes the SAF and the Valkyrie. Got royally chewed out by the Captain of the USS Vanguard when she barrel rolled the USS Osprey (Talon class) just prior to landing in the recover bay before reporting for duty. You know the type... http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif
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"The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank" -Montgomery Scott
Miymaani Shaar was a *very* long-running MUSH character of mine, who I played from her arrival at the Academy as a very quiet, solicitous, and formal Andorian who was raised in an Andorian temple monastery.(she was the equivalent of a nun, trained in temple architecture, and joined Starfleet during a Klingon conflict due to a shortage of engineers and an enigmatic pronouncement by her elders that there was some destiny involved. )
When the character retired, it was twenty six years later in game, and she was an Admiral, mother of three, and Chief of Starfleet Engineering, having devised the largest single-ship spacelift in Federation history, as well as finally learning to order a "Peet-sa." http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
OK Styro', My "handle" if you will, comes from a warm spring night out in the desert five miles north of Reno NV in 1990. It was just me, my former girl friend, a large bon-fire, oh yeah and about 30 rowdy drunken high school students/friends on the weekend after the end of the school year. Any way several things happened that night that led to the name of "Phoenix" the most memorable of them was when I got just a little to close to that afore mentioned bon-fire, slightly doused in 151. Thank whomever for large bodies of water within a short sprint, and the fact that other than the loss of a few arm hairs I was alright.
Any how some of the other things are of a more personal nature...sorry...but I plead the fifth...
Phoenix...no longer burning sooo brightly
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-Napoleon
OH YEAH!!! SpyHunter on PlayStation!.
Woo-Hoo.
(commences little dance around computer)
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"My idiot manservaant has trapped us 200 years behind our time and my infuriating cousin has gotten herself lost. WONDERFUL"
Philleous Fogg summing up the last 40 minutes of episode three of The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne.
Tmutant, the archaeologist of Forum.trek-rpg.net! StyroFoamMan probably thought this thread was dead and buried, but not deep enough. Bwahahaha!
Tmutant is a wee bit strange. I was born with no wisdom teeth, so I am a mutant, or at least odd. (When I joined the Air Force, the dentist X-rayed my whole head looking for them. Apparently, wisdom teeth can wander around the skull, ending up in eye sockets, sinus cavities, etc.) My first name is Tim. And the bit about "Some men call me..." is from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when Tim the Necromancer introduces himself.
Years ago when I started to play ICON trek, I created my first Engineer Betazoid.
I couldn't think of a good alien name, for some reason Bob kept coming up in my mind and everyone was taunting me to name him Bob. People around me got tired of waiting so they started to pick gaming manuals, my brother picked up a Starcraft book and Chrysanthos was written on the back of it. It was a small cocoon for the Zerg Kerrigan (I think), I took the word. Originally it was supposed to be one word, Krysanthos, but it was too long and everyone started calling him Antos. So I seperated it into Khrys and Antos for a last name.
I still have the same character though he's a captain now.
Okay, I had to search through the archives to make sure I haven't posted this already. :)
Sea Tyger is an adaptation of a nickname I earned in the Navy. "Tyger" was my nickname for a long time (partly because I'm Missourian [university's mascot] and I have an affinity for big cats). I had "Tyger J" embroidered on the back of my Navy ball cap (J being short for Jones, my last name), and people in the shop started calling me "Tygerjay."
Anyway, I use "Tygerjay" as a username for many accounts, so I decided I needed a second username. Being a Navy vet, using "Sea" in front of my original nick seemed appropriate (and also made it sound like the name of a WWII-era submarine :) ).
Of course, people still think my real name (Davy Jones) is actually a pen name. ;)
Coming from the "Better late than never Department"...
Nicholas Ramage is the hero of a set of historical novels -- Napoleonic-era Royal Navy. I took him because he was a bit less obvious than Jack Aubrey or Horatio Hornblower... ;)
I probably should have chosen a name from the O'Brian books, just because they are BY FAR the best written, but at the time it seemed good :D
Any particular reason to resurrect this old thread other then to let peple know your here? ;)
A new thread would have sufficed.
Steele is the name of a Paladin NPC I had in mind for a D & D campaign that was running, I then began to use the name for a Paladin I play in someone elses game now. Steele is also the last name of the Captain of the USS Infinity the ship for several Star Trek adventure I have ran in the past.
Well, for the longest time, my home machine has been a step or three behind the state-of-the-art, because I don't especially care about having the latest bells, whistles, & go-faster stripes. I used an 8088 from 1988 to 94 or so, when I upgraded to a 386. Still using a 40 meg HD, and DOS 5.0. Next I went briefly to a 486, and then to a P1-166 with a huge 1GB drive and Win95, in 1998. It stayed that way until 2001, when I finally went to a spiffy Celeron 700 & a quarter gig of memory, & 8 gig drive. A fatal OS crash later, and I'm running 98SE, and that's the point I'm going to be at until forced, kicking and screaming, to upgrade again. (Not counting additional drive space, that is. Space is at a premium since I've discovered Anime Music Videos...) The odd spelling of Cyber-Luddite is due a ten character limit. I don't use my real name on line much, due to having to constantly state that I'm not related tot he Astronaut... (That should leave y'all guessing for a while, assuming I don't have it in my user profile. :D )
Mine is just my character's name from the first LUGTrek we played. He was a semi-NPC most of the time, my character, the CMO, while I narrated.
Doctor Michael Barratt (Lt. Cmdr). :) 3/4 Human, 1/4 Betazoid, and his empathy is barely there, but tends to home in on pain a whole lot... Career choice became clear once that started at puberty...
The Doc
Obscure Simpsons reference. I was trying to come up with an email address name at the same time I saw the Simpsons episode where Lisa and Bart were on the Small-World-clone ride at Duff Gardens. Bart dares Lisa to drink the water the little boats are floating in; Lisa winds up on a wild acid trip and at the end she announces "I am the LIZARD QUEEN!!!" It just stuck. :D
With a complete lack of unoriginality, my handle comes from my initials... it's C.V., so I just converted the V from its Roman numeral value (5) and voilà!
Plus, at the time, one of my gaming friend had a reputation of loving to blow things up with C4 (or whatever explosive existed in the current universe, for that matter), so I found it funny to make an upgrade.
When I play online with friends, I usually take the name Fénix or Tassadar, from my old SW character called Fénix Tassadar (and yes... I was deep into StarCraft when I created this character ;))
I have been an assistant killer whale trainer for sometime... and worked a lot with these animals. Later, when I played in some metal bands, nicknames were needed, so I made something with the tag KW.
What's funny is IRL, people call me "admiral" since I'm the GM of our campaign, being the reverse as in here ;)
Well, my PC's full name is Capt. Matthew.J.Hunter of the USS Tempest. First two names are my own, last name just sounds better than the real thing (Hegarty - darn Irish ancestry :)). Hero of the Dominion War, Borg Ass-Kicker extraordinaire...
My handle is from a character in a screenplay I wrote on ancient Egypt. Ineti's a scribe in Pharaoh's service. :)
Re'k of Danar Town (character sheet) was my third Trek RPG character. I'd just read Peter David's "New Frontier" novels, so I created a Xenexian. After fighting to liberate Xenex he found he was still a soldier without a war, so he joined the Starfleet RRT. The game started after the Dominion War, Re'k was transferred to the security department of an explorer (non-RRT) ship, and Re'k was finally forced to struggle to fit in to a society that wasn't fighting.
I like socks. :D
Mine is shortened from my E-mail address Captkarg, which of course sounds Klingon because most of my friends say i was born a Klingon
Karg
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Of course! I fully plan on following the established standards for weirdness, sanity, and wellness of adjustment that I have seen on this board. :eek: ;)Quote:
Originally posted by StyroFoam Man
You are aware that we don't allow wierdos, nuts and crazy people here, riiiiiiight? Only normal, sane, well adjusted people may post.
Mmmm.... socks. :D
Oh, I don't know Styro. After all, we let you post ;) ;)Quote:
Originally posted by StyroFoam Man
You are aware that we don't allow wierdos, nuts and crazy people here, riiiiiiight? Only normal, sane, well adjusted people may post.
BTW: We like socks too!
Perrrryyy (who doesn't wear socks).
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LOL
We knew that was coming.
PS. nice sig line!
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ROFLMAO
My name come from my old Star Wars Victory II star Destroyer captain.
Rather sad really.