How'd ya get yer name?

[Aedh Rua]

Aedh Rua is my Celtic Pagan name, and has been since 1992. It is pronounced AY-uh
ROO-uh, and means something like "red flame". It is the name I use all over the net, particularly on Pagan pages.

Here, of course, it is just my name, and has little to do with religion. Except insofar as one could call gaming a second religion of mine (grin), or a Saytannick Plott too Unnermine Amerkuh's Yooth.

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Slan agat!

[Talon Kane]

Mine is pretty simple. I've been working on a novel for quite some time now and when working on it, I needed the name for the main character. So, I picked up the name book I own (a baby name book is perfect for making up character and NPC names) and started flipping through it. I came across the name Talon and just thought it sounded cool. I then needed to think of a last name and came up with Kane. Lo and behold, Talon Kane. ::shrugs::

[Kaiddin]

I can see that some of us get attached to characters we've played.
Mine is the Klingon character I got to play when I was actually allowed to be a player. Always prefered the Klingon Battlecruisers and Mark Lenard's Klingon from TMP sealed the deal.
Kaiddin survived an assassination attempt 5 seconds into the very first episode we ran by a fellow PC. Obviously destined for greatness. {He was kinda modeled after Koloth with just a bit of Kang thrown in. }

[This message has been edited by Kaiddin (edited 04-23-2001).]

[Paul]

First name. Sorry, nothing funny in that, no strange tale. That's it. Move on. Nothing to see here.

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A couple of comments to throw in times of stress to that person who's really annoying you...

"Oohhh. Did I just step on your itty-bitty ego?"
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?"

[Roxby]

sorry to add my vote to the 'boring' column...

but Roxby is my last name....

no, really...

please...


remain seated.

[Phantom]

The name sort of comes from two sources; I have a tendency to "sneak" up on people without really trying, I just sorta appear. Also, when I was into the computer flight sims the F-4F Phantom was my favourite.

[AslanC]

What can I say my mother loved C.S. Lewis when I was a kid. I use Aslan as a stage and pen name now, though you will find me listed in the Internet Movie Database as Alan LeGros

Luckily I liked the books when I was a kid

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Aslan Collas
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Star Trek:Strange New Worlds;
http://www.geocities.com/aslan_collas/
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Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition #76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

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[Phantom]

AslanC,

Thought so. Thats the Narnia Chronicles isn't?

Ok, Aslan was the Lion (I believe), so where does the "C" come from?

[Erik Filean]

Don't look at me; it was my parents' idea. I just haven't saved the cash to legally change it to "Michael Philip Bonnnnngggggg."

(Silly Party...)

[Robbert Raets]

Um... this is my real name...

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FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC
Guards guards by Terry Pratchett

[qerlin]

Qerlin was the name of a martian NPC I really liked in Space:1889. She's due to make a reappearance in the current Castle Falkenstein campaign once the ether travels begin.

[Joe Dizzy]

I thought Dizzy sounded very funny.


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"On a scale from one to ten? It sucked!" - Xander in "Prohecy Girl"

[Keny Suda]

Keny comes from South Park. Hwen my first character was (more or less heroically) shot by a Romulan disruptor, the others shouted "Oh my god! They killed Keny!" This was the beginning of a new nickname era.

Suda is a misspelling of Suder, the psycho-killer-Betazoid. I wanted my character to be a far descendant, without the Hannibal affinities.

[Calcoran]

Careful, long! But that's the aim of the topic, isn't it? I've got to compensate for the Pauls and Roxbys .

Calcoran Lorthol ... first character at WahammerRPG ... there was a random elven names generator in one of the supplements. Died a horrible death at the hands of a few stupidly mutated chaos warriors (Me:"did you just say 7 attacks?!?" GM:"That's for the first one."). I kinda liked the name, so when we started a new warhammer campaign (the imperial campaign), I decided I would recreate a similar character (distant cousin I suppose).
This one became quite mythical among our group of players. It was the pisses-you-off-as-soon-as-you-try-to-do-something-even-remotely-unethical-but-saves-your-but-in-the-end kind (think Carrot if you've read some Discworld books) ... I had never played such a lawful character before, now that was fun (helps to have a pretty combat oriented character).
At about the same time, we started to develop an internet (IRC) strategy game à la masters of magic (without the graphics): Akeran ... so I used Calcoran as a nick too. (Please do ask me about Akeran! We're lacking a bit of players for the V3, what with the unfair competition of everquest and such )
Actually, the nick I use in computer games is usually Obi Wan (comes from a pun on my name (French) Benoit -> Ben Hoit -> Obi Wan Ben Hoit) ... but I thought the name would be ill advised on a Trek forum, so I prefered Calcoran.
There, you know it all now.

P.S.: Querlin do tell us about your Space89 / Castle Falkenstein crossover. I've been thinking about doing one for some time but didn't find the opportunity. Question: How do you send a Sidhe (sp?) in space ooops ether? There seems to be a small metal problem.

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Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

[Calcoran]

Wow, that was my hundredth post !!! (Side Note: never trust someone using multiple exclamation marks)
I debated a bit as to whether I should stop posting for a while to see this 100th post a bit longer ... but I couldn't resitist, so here is the 101th.