Good Street Names Options

[Stumps]

Well, there's a topic for bad ones, so how about a topic for good ones.
What are the street names that you have used, or your group has used, that were good.

I'll kick it off.
Stumps.

Nope, I'm not kidding.
Stumps was the name of a Dwarf character I once had. He was named Stumps after a brand of SixthWorld cigerettes called, "Stumps".
(The smokes are found in SR2 artwork)

[Walknuki]

There's Nutters the... I think it was squirrle shaman. Hmm. Something like squirrle.

And by the same player.

Cadillac Jack, wheel man.

[Jason Farlander]

The mage I am currently playing, who specializes in control manipulation and illusion spells, was, until recently, named Syke. I never did really decide which pronunciation for it I liked better (one or two syllables), but, fortunately, it didn't matter that much insofar as it's an online game.

As some here may recall, the character underwent something of a transformation a bit ago, and now goes by the name Anima. Psychology buffs might find that amusing, or even clever. Or not. *shrugs*

[heliocentric]

The French Teacher
She was an honest to god high school french teacher turned neo-anarchist after a corp shut down her school.

Ribbon B. Frizzle
The worst name ever, and yet, the best name ever.

Sammy Hagar the Horrible
Fixer and 1980s metal renaissance man.

Deadbolt.
To the point.


Yeah, alright, The French Teacher was the only one that was any good...

[algcs]

Elf Anime poser mage. He runs around dressed in ninja battle armor with a HUD and bright blue mowhawk. The party nicknamed him Rainbow. He quickly dubbed himself RAINBOW NINJA! So he runs around yelling "Rainbow Ninja, lighting attack!" before casting spells.

[Lindt]

Wow, thats not good. IMO thats pretty dumb...
Im finding that call signs after animals work good. Rhino, Fox, Owl, Wren, Mongoose, Platapuse, Roo.

[algcs]

Animal names, very original.

[Teulisch]

I go with Yorick for any of my characters with a cyberskull.

[Stumps]

I'll throw out a second one.
I've mentioned it slightly elsewhere as well.

James C. Prophet.
Aka J.C. Prophet and "The Prophet"
He had 12 guns and a 3 piece rifle that he loaded blindfold from a pile of ammo that was 50% tranq and 50% regular. It was Gods decision in his eyes.

And here's another.
A knife fighter/ganger-trying to make it into the Shadows named Vic.
Sometimes went by the name Victor.
Got the name because of his exclusive use of Victorinox blades.

[HMHVV Hunter]

I named my vampire hunter adept "Helios."
Vampires fear the sunlight, and Helios was a sun god, and this guy is a vampire hunter that vampires (if they're smart) definitely fear, so...

It's the most original character name I've ever come up with for any RPG, apart from my Abyssal Exalted that I got to name "He Who Slays the Dragons and Shakes the Earth" because Abyssals get such cool names.

So yeah, that's my contribution.

[Arethusa]

David.

He didn't fuck around.

[Voran]

Hmm. I've used Bluesummers, most recently. Some of the former ones, Kail, Ascheron, Arbiter, Prelate, Harbinger....can't remember some of the others offhand.

As for Bluesummers, he actually has a couple identities. Instead of one street name, keeps the heat down by using different handles in different places on the planet. Hell, even in different areas of Seattle.

[equinox]

I had a rigger who had "Jon Luke Packard" as a real name

Other names in various campaigns that I've been in that I liked were:

Defcon
The Rose
Flatline
Hotstepper
Chase
Blur
Z-Roxy
Slut Puppy

Okay, maybe not the last one. That name just makes me laugh. All names properly earned (including the last).

[Catsnightmare]

My weapons specialist archetype character, had his street name changed after I spent 6 karma points in failure-rerolls in 3 rounds to keep him from falling off a rocking gunboat and being eaten by para-crocodiles. Since then everyone knows him as Gator.

Seems like all the best street names are the ones you don't give your own character.
I couldn't come up with a name for my recent tough-as-a-troll but with no reflex increases human phys-ad, my fellow players just called him Brick, and the name turned out to be accurately appropriate and stuck.

[Joe Outside]

There's a heavily-cybered orc sammy in our group who fell overboard during an aquatic mission and somehow survived long enough to walk to shore. Since then he's been called "Anchor"


We had a gang campaign going for a while--our gang's name was "the doughnuts" since we had a MO of taking the security guards' doughnuts whenever we hit a place--our gang names were based on what type of doughnut we went for first (I was Pecan Bar) except for the troll--being hard and crusty, we called him Day-Old.

[Wounded Ronin]

Dirk Thunderbarrel.


That's the name I'm most proud of.

[L.D]

L.D.
Rigger



And then we had a team named: BTM... short for "Better Than Most".

At a meeting with Mr. J the restaurant got taken over by terrorists and the J hired them to take the terrorists out. Since this was a very fancy restaurant at the top of a skyscraper all their equipment was at the ground floor (for some reason the terrorists had managed to get in some ARs (and other goodies)... go figure...). Anyway, at one point the team saw it's chance and managed to take out a couple of well armed terrorists in front of a couple of dozen suits (corp and organised crime). The big (unarmored) orc takes at least one bullet in the process and when the fight is over he gets up, looks at the suits and says: "And remember, we're Better Than Most." Instant humor karma. :D

[Bastard]

Captain Jackass--- earned by the player more than the character

Dragon Slayer --- not origional, except his teammates gave it to him after Masuru killed him in COD- part of Shadows of the Underworld. I let him live via Hand of God and forfitting all his Karma he would have earned that mission. Its pointless to let a brand new character die, they just get remade with a new name.

Shockwave--- my character who my friends nicknamed after an unfortunate grenade launcher accident. I learned SA GLs are not great in close quarters combat, especially in a tiny bar. At least I killed everyone else :D

[Trashman]

Matt, Ork Ex-Ganger
Gor, Hobgoblin Ex-Merc
Shanka, allround-nutter, Ex-Nuke, Cuban black dwarf with Reggae-fixation
Skip, Illusionist, existantialist ex-student

Keep 'em short, I say.
Simple and doesn't say anything the loads of character behind them (especially Matt and Gor). Of course, no one can beat Shanka for nuttiness

[durthang]

[Gyro the Greek S...]

"The Gardener"

It sounds so menacing, and yet so vague, doesn't it?

It also happened that it was a two foot tall gnome, but hey....

[Deadeye]

While teaching a newbie how dice rolls work with his newly created Troll Super-Melee ™ Phys Ad, the question of what the elven teacher will call his lumbering student.

"Jeez, I dunno. He hits stuff with his club, so call him Pebbles, I guess."

Though I knew well enough that he meant Bam-bam, and technically it was a staff, not a club, and furthermore that he was only kidding, we still ended up using the social interaction / combat as a part of the background for his 7 1/2 foot tall, 400lb, fu-manchu bearded, pony-tail with little skulls used-for-braids troll...

Named Pebbles. Pebbles the Troll.

[Morgannah]

[Clyde]

"The Chinaman." For a Chinese adept (and ex cop). Mainly for the jokes it engendered: "They're sending the Chinaman!" "Which one??!?" Or "The Chinaman always delivers."

Actually, it was great because it told you virtually nothing about its owner but it wasn't ostentatious either.

[Arethusa]

You tell him 'the only man who ever heard him call on Jesus.'

1 point to the first person to pick up the reference.