 What's in a Name, Cool Street Names |
 Oct 23 2003, 01:59 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 197 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,542  |
We all have played SR games where it has been tough to come up with a street name or where we made one up off the cuff, but then there are those really good ones. You know the ones I mean. The ones were its just cool to say and you should get points every session for saying it.
Normally we try to think of names that fit our character's personality. I chose Lazarus because of an event in that character's background (actually he chose it himself). It was after heavy cybersurgery late in his career, and after losing essence he felt as if he had some how changed. Of course this is more of a take on being resurrected but in a bad way. As in you get a second chance, but the cost is more than you thought it was going to be. So what other names out there that you think are cool, and do you have a background story behind it? Just curious. (And no I don't think Lazarus is a super cool name, to me it is, but hey that's why we rp right? :D ) |
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Oct 23 2003, 02:01 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
In a once-played Troll (I have way too many of those), we rolled, yes rolled, his name. We got the following, in order of appearance: K, A, E, K. What did we decide? Kake. Why? I'm still not sure. But it sounded funny for a Troll with 14 Str. :grinbig:
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Oct 23 2003, 02:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 1-April 03 From: Long Island, NY Member No.: 4,364 |
The one I'm using now for the Mafia Affair... Lex. Real name, Mark. I was sitting at my computer going 'name, name, name, need a name, name....' looking around at my desk, and saw my printer, a LexMark Z43. My character's a decker, so I probably should have gone with the Z43 ;) but I thought using the Lex and Mark combo was cute, so I ran with it.
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Oct 23 2003, 02:02 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 22-June 02 From: Parts Without Member No.: 2,897 |
Gritz N. Bitz -- my ork decker from down Georgia way. Grtiz for short. So named because they are a few of his favorite things. Mmm mmm data.
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Oct 23 2003, 02:03 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 1-April 03 From: Long Island, NY Member No.: 4,364 |
My real naming problem stems from no matter what I name my characters, the players always call me Elfie, it's been like that for years, so most of my players are just named Elfie...
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Oct 23 2003, 02:03 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Ha! Good one. ;) I have yet to really name many other characters because I didn't really like any of them... I have a few good ones coming in that should be very fun to play, but we'll see if they get named any time soon. =\ |
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Oct 23 2003, 02:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 198 Joined: 30-August 03 From: Upland, IN Member No.: 5,554 |
I am currently playing a character known as Cowboy. It's nothing special, it's just because he grew up in an area of Aztland that used to be Texas and he wears a Stetson everywhere. Getting dressed-up for him means a button down shirt with his jeans, dress boots with gold spurs, a shoestring tie, and a sport jacket. He also enjoys line dancing wherever he can find it. 8)
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Oct 23 2003, 02:08 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,010 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
A few streetnames I go with:
Major (due to backstory) Alice Walker (guess how many people thought it was her real name) Jane (backstory) Ariel (a rigger, a pun on aerial and because she used to be part of a gang whose names were all the names of Angels, so most of their names ended with -el, or "of God") Juri (a reference to Serial Experiments Lain, the character was an Otaku) And finally Kagetenshi, which translates as "shadow angel". ~J |
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Oct 23 2003, 02:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 9-October 03 Member No.: 5,702 |
Arashi-Kage (storm shadow), ninja adept. Name ripped off from GI Joe cartoon I saw a while ago
Homocide, 7.5' troll combat mage with a case of "little man's disease" Quentallis Thornsong, elf samurai born Quinton Thorenson, changed name to be more "elfie" |
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Oct 23 2003, 02:24 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 1-April 03 From: Long Island, NY Member No.: 4,364 |
:D Shirahime was one I've used in the past, now that I think about it. |
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Oct 23 2003, 02:26 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
i've got a statsless pirate newscaster who calls himself the Man in Black. he signs off at the end of a feed with "'Til things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black."
there's my decker, RIR/0: RIR Is Recursive. the division by 0 is... well, it's division by zero. decker coolness. demonseed elite had Runs With Scissors; not sure if that was a character or not, but it was funny. |
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Oct 23 2003, 02:35 AM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
My Current Charactes names...
Shadow (of course) Eclipse (my fav) Ivan Crow Raven Trace I was really tempted to name, Trace, Tracer Bullit. Calvin and Hobbs rocks! |
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Oct 23 2003, 02:53 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: 17-March 03 Member No.: 4,269 |
Street names...
Buckshot had to be my favorite. So named because of his shotgun arm. There was also Trog the Soul Eater (originally Tongo... but someone called him Trog and he thought it sounded coolers... ah the joys of a character too stupid to know he was being insulted) Others had been The Brick, Doll, Murphy, and The Ape. Had a group Street Named "Santa's Little Helpers" since it's high propensity of Elves and Dwarves (my character Buckshot used it once as a joke, and it just stuck) Then there was always the joke character Rigger Mortis, the ghoul rigger. |
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Oct 23 2003, 03:02 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 280 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Singapore Member No.: 4,487 |
I used to play a character called Johnny Demonic until that name came out in a Shadowrun sourcebook (can't remember which one, anymore).
One of my best friends used to play a character call Mirage and I think he stopped using that, too, because the name appeared in another Shadowrun book (either a sourcebook or novel). Somehow doesn't feel ... original any longer once it appears in print. :D |
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Oct 23 2003, 03:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 9-October 03 Member No.: 5,702 |
That Rocks! |
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Oct 23 2003, 03:28 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 197 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,542 |
I had a friend in my old SR group that had a dwarven Street Sam named Knee-Basher... Eventually someone would ask him why that was his name... Let's just say that he had a fondness for extending metal batons and knees. He was also an Escrima martial artist... And he called everyone "Ya' bastard" even the ladies (Still don't why to this day, must have been that CHA of 1)
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Oct 23 2003, 03:40 AM
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I always hated street names. No way am I going to sit down in a bar and refer to everybody as Nemesis, Moonshine, Grabass and BigN'Fuzzy, or whatever crazy names I've heard.
All my characters are recorded on their character sheet by their birth name, and I take a relatively neutral sounding name, like Becket or Thompson, and use that as a street name and carry a rep. And then, whenever I meet a new group of people, I give them a new first name to call me (Tom, James, Eddie... something that's not going to catch people's ears if they need to get my attention). Granted, most people are keyed to the sound of their own name, but I figure if I play someone paranoid to do all the stupid runner tricks, he's paranoid enough to take some time to consciously learn to respond to another name for a bit. Now, nothing against people who do uses streetnames, and in many places they are realistic (fixers, deckers, and gangers would probably have nicknames), its just that I sat down one time too many with three guys named Thrasher. (Shudders at the memories). |
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Oct 23 2003, 04:03 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-November 02 Member No.: 3,660 |
Let's see there was my Troll Fencer (the Sword) from Quebec named Pepe Le Pew .
My Combat monster Sam named squish . And my Pirate named Bubbles . I think those where the best .:) |
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Oct 23 2003, 04:06 AM
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well, technically, if you want to run streetnames right, your character wouldn't chose them. Basically, as your rep grows (or shrinks) you start to pick up fancier titles. Take Eddie, the Wired III street sammie, always quick on the draw, always capping people before they can act. People start to say "man, that Eddie is Fast". Pretty soon, people start to talk about "Fast Eddie". Now mind you, it can work the other way too. Let's say Eddie's Wired III was a bad street level job, so he is practically vibrating. People start talking "man, look at Eddie shaking". Pretty soon Eddie's picked himself up the street name of "Shakes" I've always been really tempted to try a campaign where the character's didn't pick them, but they got assigned to them based off their actions. |
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Oct 23 2003, 04:42 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Does anyone know [dolor=red]how[/color] to pronounce or phonetically spell "Little Tiger" in Japanese?
Tim Dancing Hands, Illusionist. Pulse, Former Mage Paramedic. |
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Oct 23 2003, 04:55 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
Yes, but that isn't the answer to the question you wanted. The answer you wanted is: toranoko - tiger cub tora - tiger ritoru - little kodora - small tiger/drinker (???) pick one |
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Oct 23 2003, 04:58 AM
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Now that's a cool idea. I'm in the Air Force, and that's how callsigns work. I remember when I was API (I trained with the Navy for the first half of pilot training, API is the first part of Naval Flight Training) I had an instructor who told us this about callsigns (and I think would make a pretty good rule of thumb for street names) "You may think your going to be called Iceman because when your up there your as cool as ice and that's how you fly, but really, if you have a name that in way sounds like a body part, cartoon character, or sexual act, that's what your going to be called." An interesting sidenote: many pilot communities don't really get into callsigns. In airlift they're not that big a deal, and some communities think they are the dumbest thing since New Coke. Fighter pilots will almost always have a callsign, and usually two stories about how they got 'em (one they tell people, and the one that actually happened). But my all-time favorite callsign was a guy in the Navy, who was on the boat for about a year, and figured out that if you sleep 12 hours a day, your only there for 6 months. Common thinking, but most people can only sleep til their hungry and eat til their tired for about a week before it gets to be too much (or too little, I guess) and give up. Not this guy. He averaged something like 13 hours a day for a year, and they called him "mantress," half man, half mattress. |
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Oct 23 2003, 05:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 280 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Singapore Member No.: 4,487 |
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Wahahahaha, that takes the cake. I heard about a FOF in the Air Force who LOVED ground strikes. People used to tell him, "Good job blowin' up that tank [during such-and-such an exercise]!" so they took the piss out of him calling him Blowjob but since he couldn't have that "officially", he just got called Bee Jay and that was that. Dunno how true that is, though, as I heard it second-hand. I had thought you're allowed to be nicknamed anything, even something in bad taste, short of foul language or racially offensive. [edited for grammar] |
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Oct 23 2003, 05:08 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Nah, nothing sexual, it'll get the pilots excited and they'll forget their task at hand. :D |
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Oct 23 2003, 05:16 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 280 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Singapore Member No.: 4,487 |
Hehehe, I see. Bad enough that they're playing with their sticks between their legs (unless it's one of those with the stick on side) and 20,000 pounds of thrust. :rotfl: |
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