Jack Kain was the name of the character in the movie
"Lightning Jack", a comandy western made in 1994 stairing Paul Hogan
The only difference is I spelled it Kain instead of Kane as done in the movie.
It is also the name of my current shadowrun character, an Elf who often refers to himself
as Lightning Jack Kain. A reference to how fast he is with a gun.

Had a friend with a funny accent, when she says my name, it sounds like "Dog."

And it's short and easy to type.

No hip-hop connotations, no bounty-hunter connection, that's it.

I used to play a garou in a friend's mage game (he was a glass-walker, info-bro). I'd hang out at the same spots as the PC virtual adept.

In net combat, I used a virtual 'crinos' form, made of polished chrome. The VA had a habit of calling me the 'chrome dog-dude'. It worked as a handle, so I kept using it.

There's at least one npc in my campaigns who uses it, and they all tend to be variations on a theme - fixers.

I was listening to Bob & Tom on the radio during a morning commute and they had Laura Corn on promoting her new sex book. She asked a trivia question about the top 5 letters women would want spelled during oral sex. The answer was i,o,s,t,z.

Tom said o-zits would be a way to remember it, but Bob was thinking more toward Ozzie Osborn and said 'Tis Oz. It kind of stuck in memory.

When prompted for a screen name on a personal ad site, tisoz sounded just odd enough to me and might lead to an interesting conversation if anyone else remembered the show or read Corn's book where I presume she mentioned it.

tisoz still seemed unique enough when I joined this forum.

Not that I am regular poster...but as expected this name was a character, in this case from SR 1st. The character has been updated in each of the editions and is mostly used as an NPC these days.

Been on these boards as BlacKat since the Shadowrun Archive days though, back in '97.

BlacKat

I first played SR in the summer of 1987, with 1st edition, and have been GMing SR ever since. My first character was a Ganger with a skateboard and a penchent for hand grenades. Blackat was my first Decker made about a year later.

BlacKat

Edited for miss-quote

I remember playing it early on becasue the guy I first played with moved out of State my second year of Junior High wich would have been 88. He had a soft cover copy, and he did not move back into the area until 2000.

BlacKat

Dude ... the game was not released until 1989. This is a well-known fact, and not just something I am making up.

Its odd how memory plays games with you. I could have sworn I played before 89. But as you said the dates dont lie so it must have been in 89. I left the area in 93 for college. My friend who moved away must have been visiting the area or something.

BlacKat

Hmm... The name Trigger comes from one of the first, not the first, SR3 characters I played. He was an Elf Mage with a love of flashy spells and firearms. On his first run they were to infiltrate a warehouse on the docks in Seattle. Well, the rest of the team decides to go all sneaky and try to get in quiet, while I roll a great perception and see a guard standing off on his lonesome. So I fry his hoop from 30 meters with a good old fashioned lightning bolt, then loot his body of the unifrom while dumping the charred remains in The Sound. In my guard attire I move to the nearest screen barred and sealed window and cats a very nice Ignite (hence the sig) and 10 rounds later blow the place wide open. now while the rest of my party yells at me for breaking the silence, a group of guards rush from the hole and I point towards my team and say the mage is over there. They move towards my team and I use my other love, a T-250 Defiance shotgun, and blow the drek out of them. I proceed to movbe through the complex leading the guards astray and finishing them with either my Warhawk or Shotgun and moving along. Until another mage perceived me and threw all he could into a fireball to burn me to smithereens. But I threw my entire spell defense, blocked his attack, waded through the fireball and shot him in the face. It was a good run.

So, in the short, Trigger is short for trigger happy

Smilin' Jack was a bounty hunter character in my college dorm GURPS Space campaign many years ago.

Started out as just plain Jack, but acquired the moniker Smilin' Jack shortly after a series of events on a real hell hole of a planet left him paranoid and extremely pessimistic; you know the type – silent, non-smiling, and a general pain in the ass. He was so pessimistic that it became a running joke around the table – the more Jack smiles... the deeper the crap is that we're about to step into.

I too have a white wolf stolen name.

I used the handle Dead_Radish for the longest time, which was simply a random nickname I acquired in a random IRC conversation. As those things go, my nickname at one point was Evil Radish, presumably because salad was being discussed. Someone promptly shot me (as again, IRC conversations tend to), and I became Dead_Radish. It stuck forever.

Once I wanted to *stop* using it, I was at a loss. So I picked up a random character sheet lying nearby, and found my Fianna Metis Gaillard (Sp?), Lore-chaser.

And there ya go.

Both of them have, thus far, been unique enough never to get doubled.

And my first SR character was an elven combat decker named Bard. He only spoke in rhymes.

I'm so ashamed.

...of course after my longest running and most successful character. She's been around since the SR1 days, (back when weapons had two different damage codes & Firearms skill covered everything from holdouts to MMGs.)

Mortax is a name taken from a screenplay I wrote a couple of years ago. (And am currently looking for a producer. ) Mortax was a celtic warrior that was turned into a vampire. He was imprisoned for about 2 millenia, then was freed and well, the story gets weird from there.

I first played 1st edition shadowrun in 1999 (why the guy didn't have a 2nd edition book I don't know.). Our GM really wantedto get people to play, so he tempted me into it by letting me play a vampire. A in race, B in magic. I was dirt poor, had so so skills, and stat's that sucked. What else wouyld I name hime? After a while (300+ karma) I stopped playing him. High level initiate, full mage, with a weapon focus. He just wasnt fun to play anymore. (alleviate sevear allergy spell locked, wood barrier spell locked.....)

I now use him as an NPC who ownes a club called the Dominion. He acts as a plot device, though most of my players have an idea who he is. They always seem to get nervouse when they see a short Irish guy with a scar down his face.