Thistledown is another dragonlance name. I came up with it as a name for a kender (A race with no concept of personal property, immune to fear, look like elven kids, gets wanderlust) back in 94 or 95. After thinking about other kender names, I thought of two words that fit and put them togather.

I used the character in a couple d&d campaigns, then when I found the dragonlance forums at collage, he became one of my main characters and my screen name there. Now I use it and a variation 'thistledownsname' pretty much everywhere.

Since then, the name has been given to an actual kender in one of the books (many years later), and I've found out that in other systems, thistledown is what they make Cloaks of Elven Kind out of. I think it's also a type of horse irl.

LynGrey was the name of a bastard sword toatin healing cleric i had in DnD my first game.. and it is also my E-Mail name from 7th grade.. when e-mail was getting big =)

other names i commonly used Jack Will or Kalaeb Krist those are like my SR names. I Usally stick to Izukul, Aydin, Frayen, and LynGrey to DnD =)

I know people have had their thoughts about my screen name - whether it's because I'm an awakened character freak, or know the magic rules backwards, but it's a lot more convoluted, and less exciting than that.

Back in the days of the OLD dumpshock forums (they were sandy coloured back then, IIRC), I joined. At the time I was sharing my dad's computer and email address. I utilised, simply, the first part of his addy as a screen name.

He used to be a health inspector and spent a lot of time down drains (the handy jobs you can get when you have no sense of smell, neh?) and used "Drain Brain" as a callsign on the CB radio they all used.

Thing is, now that I am all grown up (matter of perspective) and have my own address and computer, I'm still stuck with it! To make matters worse, he's now joined on here and had to suffer me using HIS name! He ended up as "Rakshasa" (yes, like the D&D shape-shifting-monster-thingy).

Go figure...

Back when I was first introduced to the internet I was trying to pick a handle to use and hit writers block (as usual). My cousin suggested that I use the name of my last RPG character to start with. The last game I was in was a short-lived T.M.N.T. campaign, where I played the group's combat monster. A 6'4" 300+lbs super-strong psychotic cat-hating mutant mouse, Casey 'The Cat's Nightmare'

It a play on the word hallelujah with a Maoist twist.

heh...mine's a bit wierd. Doc Mortand is a zombie musician I created to play yahoo games...very weird. Used to mooch around and eat people's brains for greetings...

Normally I'm the Grey Fox, but kept this one for here...who knows why.

mine comes from an online fps i used to play with a bunch of euro's... my ping was really bad one day so instead of running from one place to another i appeared to be teleporting.

one of the euro's made that comment that it "was like trying to shoot at vapor"

it's stuck ever since.

Mike is my actual middle name, and when I got it (at the tender age of 14 or so) I was the largest of my friends. This is no longer the case. It would be more accurate to call me MediumMike now, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it.

MY SN was originally taken from this:

Sohei - Warrior monks; relatively modern term describing the armed warriors that acted as military muscle for major religious establishments from the 9th Century until the 1580’s.

But due to another person having that name on another board i frequented back in the day I took to misspelling it. rather stupid reason but i thought I would chip in here.

Back some years ago, I used to frequent the TMBG java chat lounge, I went by SOLYD there, but that's another story, occasionally I'd sit in my recliner on the ceiling, pull out my javalamp and bask in it's relaxing presence. Started using Javalamp sometime after that.

To be honest, I have no idea where I came up with Trax. I was trying to get into an MUD but all the other names were already taken (and thinking back on it, they were stupid names anyway). At one point I just entered Trax and i've been using it since then.

Well, that's in three parts;

My first, BookWyrm, is a variant on the nickname all those of us who enjoy reading. I mearly shanged the 'o' in worm to a 'y', making it the classical 'wyrm', meaning dragon. That & later I picked up a shirt from Off World Designs with the moniker on it.

My second, The Horn'd One, comes from the fact that sometimes I wear a set of ceramic horns to the fetish nightclub I regularly 'haunt'. The first time I wore them, on a Valentine's Day, a goth friend suggested I wear then every time, and the nickname evolved from "Horny *****" (my real name has been edited) to the one I use now.

My character's street name, Tangent, comes from the dual life he leads, being a freelance armed courier 'by day', & a shadowrunner 'by night'.

Some friends back in college were playing Starsiege Tribes online and were kicking butt on a server. They gloated at how the other side was rather easy. I ran downstairs, waylayed another guy's computer to get on that server. I made up this nickname at the last minute as it sounded like the noise when you give someone the raspberry. Kind of like a last bit of defiance to give them as much trouble from winning the game.

I got on the server, stopped my friends cold from beating the game and letting the clock run out (15 minutes). Part way through I called them upstairs and asked how they were doing on the game and they said for me to get on since they needed help because of some punk named PBTHHHHT kept them from winning the game. I replied that I was already on...
their response after it sunk in... 'You Bastard!' Heh.

They told me it was a good nick to keep, it's unique, and as one person have said, "it's a phonetical nightmare!"

Ok, that was waay too long of an explantion, time for me to go back to my little hole.

You have three guesses to tell where my screen name's from, and the first two don't count.

Bruce Sterling?

No... Wait. Stephenson.

Mine just comes from one of the last characters I actually got to play IRL ... a very lucky and somewhat light-fingered Raccoon Shaman.

pthgar, a cartoon cockroach character I created in high school. The first (and only) cartoon he was in postulated pthgar's First Law, "Everything the ever taught you was wrong."

Oddly enough, I've never had a SR character named pthgar. It was the name of a bar our first team/players bought in the game 11 years ago.

Most obviously, my character's name is taken from the Grifter of the WildC.A.T.S. comic book, and is based almost entirely on him.

My other character is a decker who goes by the handle Fallout, which I thought was just a cool name, plus it's one of my favorite computer games of all time. Except for Steel Brotherhood or whatever. That sucks.

Little Bill is Gene Hackman's character in Unforgiven, and the name of the first Shadowrun character I had run in years. Little Bill (the dwarf) to contrast with Big Bill (the Troll).

I was a lamer once =(

but, i'm better now. My name is Japanese for genitals. And, now, that's how the net know me, so, it'll be like that for awhile.

Least you had the chibu's to fess up to that one, omae. LOL

My screen-name's based off a short story I wrote once. It was set in this big city that I named Sharaloth because I thought it flowed and sounded cool.

Neuromancer is the first novel in the Sprawl Series, Neuromancer is not the series.

I think I posted about it along time ago, but it's basically a play on words.

Weredigo Rownacawna, or "Where'd He Go???" "Around the Corner."

And here I thought it was a were-wendigo.

~J

Don't forget Hardwired, especially all you riggers...


Mine comes from a tiny bit part character in Elric of Melnibone. Dr. Jest was the court torturer. The gag was that he was very tall and very skinny, and I wasn't (you kind of had to be there...)

The local radio station was interviewing Linda Korn about romance and the letters iostz were referred to. One of the djs rearranged them into ozits, then the other dj said tis oz.

I used the name for a free spirit I was writing about. I did not really care for FASAdiedtoday, (I first signed onto the internet and dumpshock the day they announced they were folding) and could not remember that name's password or get it since my email had changed. So I used the free spirits name.

Call sign in the Navy

Mine was given to me a long time ago after a SR character of mine failed a demolitions test whilst wiring-up a warehouse. Normally causing enough damage to put yourself 1 box away from D is a bad thing, but when the double-crossing johnson remotely blew the remaining correctly positioned explosives whilst we were in the building, Botch was the only one to crawl away.

It kinda died, but since then in RL I've managed to fall out of a moving train, get hit in the back by a twin turbo-prop 6-seater airplane, roll and flip my car at 90mph, fall 15m down a cliff-face, get knocked off my bicycle by a car going in excess of 40mph, and have my motorbike and left knee trashed by a stereotype.

Guess what, the name came back.

My street name for my latest is Attillius, got it form a book about pompeii apparently he was an architect on the aqueduct augusta which was destroyed by the volcano erupting. thoght it was a cool name so i used it.

Brindel my shamon was named after the coulour of a cat as she was a cat shamon fitting realy.

torz x

The moment when I realised that I was in free-fall and no longer inside the train instead of leaning on the train's "slammer" door probably rates the highest on my personal "Oh, SHIT" scale.

Hitting a tire at 90mph, rolling 4 times and rotating through 180 degrees before being cut, unscathed, out of the wreckage has got to be the best goddamn rollercoaster ride of my life. Well, I say unscathed, I sustained what amounts to a papercut on my right thumb and discovered 2 mystery blood stains on my shirt; one on the front and one on the back about the diameter of a large shot glass, but no cuts. Still haven't figured out what happened there.

Black Isis is actually taken from the character who supposedly uploaded the corporate profiles in Corporate Shadowfiles. Loved the book, love the cover art....just sorta took it.

My Dumpshock handle, "Foreigner", is also the Street Name of my character in Sahandrian's Play-By-America Online-Instant-Messenger SHADOWRUN campaign.

I took the name from a minor Marvel Comics character.

"The Foreigner", real name Rafael Basil Sabitini, was a high-level assassin--supposedly the best on Earth; he's also know as "The Deadliest Man Alive"-- kicking around in various MARVEL titles on and off from the early 1980s until the mid-1990s.

He was the head of his own group, The 1400 Club, an elite organization of assassins described as "...twice as deadly as its nearest competitor...". (I'm not certain, but I think that that was intended as a rather nasty swipe at Reverend Pat Robertson and his TV show, "The 700 Club". Or perhaps it was merely a pun. )

(For those of you familiar with comics, we're talking a NORMAL human--at least physically-- who's gone toe-to-toe with Spider-Man, the Black Cat, and Sabretooth, and fought each one to a standstill.)

In SR terms, in addition to being a Shadowrunner, he was also a fixer of sorts, because his various criminal enterprises included a smuggling operation.

He was, in essence, the European counterpart to that other perennial thorn in Spider-Man's side-- Wilson Fisk, "The Kingpin of Crime". The two are also old friends. It seems that someone once hired The Foreigner to "eliminate" Fisk but, upon discovering that he and the Kingpin share the same birthday, The Foreigner turned the tables, killing his prospective employer and sending his corpse to Fisk as an early/late birthday gift (BLECCH! ). Fisk decided that he'd rather have The Foreigner as an ally than an enemy, and they've been friends ever since.

I suppose you could, in a sense, call him "James Bond's evil twin". Both characters are rich, debonair jet-setters who live the good life, using a legitimate profession--an import-export firm-- as a cover for their other activities.

Unlike Commander Bond, however, The Foreigner kills people for MONEY, not "for Queen and Country".

He's also the ex-husband of another MARVEL character--Silver Sablinovia, a/k/a "Silver Sable", the leader of the mercenary group known as "The Wild Pack".

They'd been married for several years before she found out what he really did for a living. Upon discovering that her dear hubby was a professional criminal, she filed for divorce. Since then (until his last appearance in 1995, at any rate), they've been playing a rather nasty version of "Tag" in which they take turns trying to kill each other--although not too hard, because both were still alive at the time of their last appearance.

My version of The Foreigner has a few bits taken from various assassination films I've watched--both versions of "The Jackal" (Edward Fox in the 1973 original, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, and Bruce Willis in the 1990 remake, THE JACKAL), as well as "Joubert" (Max von Sydow) in THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975), and "Doctor Jonathan Hemlock", Clint Eastwood's character in THE EIGER SANCTION (1975), based upon the 1972 novel of the same name.

(I threw the quote from REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS into my .sig because I thought it fit, not because I enjoyed the movie. )

Botch: Hmm. Sounds like you've already had enough excitement for a lifetime. Do you play SHADOWRUN to relax?

Weredigo: In the words of James Bond (Sean Connery in the pre-credit sequence in GOLDFINGER (1964), to be exact): "SHOCKING! Positively SHOCKING!"

Mysterio: Glad to know I'm not the only person around here who borrowed an alias from the Spider-Man comics.

--Foreigner

My screen name, Mysterio, is a villain from Spider-Man (yes, the guy with the fishbowl).

I was looking after my two cousins and i was on their comp, surfing the net (like 8 years ago) and anyways, decided to venture into a chat room. I needed a screen name so I glanced over at a computer game on the desk. it was, of course, a Spider-Man game. I saw Mysterio and used the name. It's been my handle ever since.

Mine's boring. I was given the name at birth by my parents.

Actually, I came up with Sepherim 'cause it sounded good for a sperethiel word. Only a lot later did I came to know what it really meant, and it surely is a good meaning.

That's why you're an immortal elf Fortune.

Lodestar comes from a song I like, it was also the name of the first SR character I ever played - sort of a mercenary.

Not to mention its also a type of International truck...

upsyndrome is the opposite of down syndrome. it's been so long since I took up the screen name that I seem to have forgotten the significance.

-Joe

I thought you were listed as Mr. No-stat in the latest Dumpshock Who's Who.

No, it's Mr. No-Life!