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Rapid Fire
Rapid Fire: male human weapon specialist (first character)
Kitten: female human razorbabe
Sawtooth: male human gator shaman
Wolverine: male dwarf street sam
Sven: male giant street sam
Paine: female human physad (yes, ripped off from the FFX-2 character)
Traveller: male human rigger
Wart: male troll merc
DV8
QUOTE (Bulldrek)
You know DV8 when all that's finished it will rock on toast and then some. Mad props.

Ehm, wut? smile.gif
Kagetenshi
Stuff you do rocks on toast. Bagels, too smile.gif

~J
DV8
Danke! Danke!
Dalassa
Strangest set of names I've seen was a short lived campaign with three characters. We came up with these names abut five minutes before the first game when we were randomly throwing out names.

Mook-ork gun bunny
Primrose-ork techie
Tree-elven monkey shaman

We called ourselves Two Plants and a Mook, LLC.
Grinder
The most ridiculous players name their shamans after their totems. Can't count all the "Wolf", "Lion", "Snake" i encountered.....

My actual chars are Jason (Elf Ki-Ad) and Gonzo (english SAS Elf)... not much better i guess biggrin.gif
MrSandman666
QUOTE (Rapid Fire)

Sven: male giant street sam

What? How come you know me? And who told you my real name? (I happen to actually be called Sven)

My probably worst character name ever was Jack Frost. He was a physad following the totem of Fenrir (yea, I know, not quite canon...) and the name came from the fact that his first name was indeed Jack and that he came out of a small snowy village in Alaska and had a tendency to live in a tent in the woods whenever he could... And, yes, he was a rather cold and frosty kinda guy biggrin.gif
Herald of Verjigorm
QUOTE (MrSandman666)
He was a physad following the totem of Fenrir (yea, I know, not quite canon...)

It is canon. It's in the myriads of MitS totems.
MrSandman666
Well, yea, I know that the totem exists but it's the first time I've seen a physad follow a totem.
Kagetenshi
It's not canon because it's a PhysAd following a totem.

~J

Edit: too slow.
Moonwolf
What about Totem's way adepts? It's there in MitS.
protean
the one name i've come to despise is whisper
mfb
totem's way adepts are indeed canon. check MitS pg 22. basically, they're just physads who often take geasa on their powers that mimic the disadvantages and ideals of their totem. totemic adepts can make astral quests to initiate, even though they can't otherwise normally visit the astral or meteplanes.
TechnoDruid
Had two X's
3 D's
One Alpha
One Omega
Numerous "Blade's, Ronin's, Shadow-something or others, Snake's, Raine's, Raven's..."

Oh, and one Schmoo.

I think a lot of GM's have had an issue with the whole "I'm gonna name my runner after his Totem," crap. <laughs> It's a plague, I tell you.

Then we get into game irony... One of my PC's decided to make a Troll PhysAd/Drake that follows the Totem Way of Dragon Slayer... Did I mention that the first thing he spent 5 of his power points on were Magical Power? Oh yeah. I'm seeing a munchkin in the making here...<shakes head>
simonw2000
QUOTE (TechnoDruid)
Then we get into game irony... One of my PC's decided to make a Troll PhysAd/Drake that follows the Totem Way of Dragon Slayer... Did I mention that the first thing he spent 5 of his power points on were Magical Power? Oh yeah. I'm seeing a munchkin in the making here...<shakes head>

Are Drakes dual-natured? I mean, does Magical Power 4 with a geas mean drek to you?
Abstruse
I've had 4 Namelesses, 1 Killer, 3 Hammers, 2 Nails (Well, one Nails and one Nailz), and 2 Icepicks. I've also had a Vash, a Kenshin, a Zelgadis, three Akiras (real name with different street name), a Kenada, a Ranma...we almost had a Goku, but the others teased him so much he became a Nameless. Haven't had a Naruto yet, but it's just a matter of time I bet...

The Abstruse One
Firewall
While I remember,

My sister has "Kali Hawk"
My wife plays a cat-shaman called "Darkness Moves Silently"
John Campbell
The problem with street names is that most people don't seem to understand how they really work. You can name yourself "Shadowblade Nightstalker" if you want... but no one is going to call you that. At least not with a straight face. The name that people will actually use is the one that they hung on you, usually against your will, because of some memorable trait or action - usually an embarrassing one.

Like getting called "Fingers" (short for "Butterfingers") because of that grenade toss you screwed up. Or "Gimpy" because you managed to break your leg (same leg) three times in the space of six months. Or "Scrag-boy" because.... hmm. I never did figure out why Kimmie started calling Glish "Scrag-boy". It stuck, though. Or "Dread", not because you instill fear in all those you encounter, but because of your hairstyle. Or "Maul" because of that one interrogation session you conducted using a wood-splitting maul to encourage conversation (they aren't all embarrassing). Or "The Elf Prick" because you have no distinguishing characteristics other than being an elf and a prick. Or "Beaker" because you look like a Muppet. Or "Noob" because you insist on calling yourself "Shadowblade Nightstalker"...
Austere Emancipator
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Firewall
One character in the current game is called Wildfire. I thought it was a stereotypical runner name until we noticed that she made willpower tests every time someone shot at her.

Then she failed. Power 7 Ignite spell. Killed every guard in the room and damn near fried her too. We do not question the name any more...
Sunday_Gamer
I completely agree on the origin of streetnames, you shouldn't just have a name, you should have a reason why they call you by that name. It doesn't mean you have to wait to get a name, that's what backgrounds are for...

Sunday
Quix
We also had a Jack Frost. He was a decker. Icon was a snow man, we loved it. Little snow man comes walking in and sets off his rating10 attack program, a thermonuclear snowball. As for earning your street name we recently had a mage who wanted to be called Stith, unfortunately the player was not well liked and really resented the rest of the team calling him Stiffy. grinbig.gif grinbig.gif
Sunday_Gamer
I love it when someone starts off wanting some odd streetname and ends up with a different one, we do however try to be reasonable and find something "cool" for the guy, unless he just bothers us. =)

I recall a street nameless sam who was very religious. I met him a few times and the only thing that struck me about him was how often he went to church, if only to "swing by" and say hi to the clergy. As a result, on one stormy night we gathered and our religious friend was late, it seemed perfectly natural for me to ask : " Where's Choirboy? "

A street name was born...

To me, those are the best names, the ones other people give you that you actually like.

Kong.
broho_pcp
Speaking IRL: It's funny when a guy I know named Patrick, wanted to be called 'Trick,' however, we just ended up calling him Trish. You must EARN a nickname.
Ned
Molly, Conflict (AKA Ronin), Shadowdancer, Black Talon, Gamin, Sentry (AKA Raid AKA Daemon), Blade, Cain, Alex, Nightwing, Eddie Garrett, Greasemonkey, Sprout, D'Artagnion, Greg "The Hammer", Reese, Geronimo, Osiris (AKA Nomad), Trance (AKA Mask), Laurence (AKA Assad Laurant), Cupid, Jinx (AKA Ichidai), Hellfire, Tail-chaser, Merrimac, Kinaan, Keegan, Archimedes and probably some I'm forgetting.

The best though, was the rigger named Jumpstart who kept changing his name due to the ridicule of others (he used 8-Ball and a host of other bad street names for a while.) But he always ended up sounding like a GIJoe character. When he crashed the team's boat (with the team in it) out in the Sound, they named him Titanic, and the name stuck.
Capt. Dave
The list of character names one player used included:

Omnicron the planet-eating planet (not sure if that was including the surname)
Juice Lee (a morphing of Jet Li and Bruce Lee)
Commander Junk (as in genitals), A.K.A Captain Junk

Luckily, he never decided to actually play.
simonw2000
QUOTE (holychampion)
And Billy-Billy Camel, a norm Pharmacist who ran the corner store for Fast-freddie.
Guess what the guy pushed to every customer young and old.

Just call the Star on his ass! wink.gif
cykotek
Uriel, Gabriel and Alice. They were part of a team including Richard (the poor sap used his real name) and "Buddy".

2J (aka, Jeff Justice, a raccoon shaman), Chips (a rigger whose primary tank was a converted Wise potato chip van), Thrasher (an ex-ganger orc sam). Exar and Vetter (both had handles they had chosen, but nobody ever used). Father Max (a Catholic priest running to support his parish), Brightfang and Greyshadow (a pair of wolf-shapeshifters), Slug, Ann, Nell, Jaeger, Heinrich, Dusty (short for Dustoff), Bunny, Cat, Wolf, Scirocco, Grey, Blackie. There are many more that I can't remember.

I'm actually surprised, as I go back through my memories, that there was not a profusion of Blades, Ronins, Ghosts, Shadows or any of the other super stereotypical names. My players must pretend to be imaginative.
Smiley
We had a shaman who would run crying to his totem every time we needed information about something. Usually it went, "Oh, Brother Monkey, I need your wisdom." So he became Monkeyboy.

Oh, and he eventually annoyed "Brother Monkey" so much, he got astral crap flung at him.
dead_as_elvis
We have had some bad ones in games I have played in (nothing like Captain Junk, though smile.gif )

Tin Man, a sam with obvious cyber arms, legs, skull and torso
Sir, a very large troll
Saigon, whose player had no idea it was a city
(Me: What's his name?
Player:Saigon
M:Like the city?
P:No, not Zion, Saigon
M:Yeah, like the city?)
Tomax, same player, all of his characters are named like that
Dark Justice, a ninja/super hero
Tommy Wang, a physad with a breakdancing and "Mad Turntable Roxoring" skills of 5
Captain Sweet, his name was Jon Sweet, and he was in the army
...and a thousand other terrible ones I can't remember
Apathy
QUOTE
What are the cheesiest, most stereotypical or just plain worst street names you've seen used?


One of my PCs insisted on being called 'Manslayer'.

We picked on him from that moment onward.
moosegod
The current game that I used to play in (and now run) has some... OK names.

We had a human sammie named Meggido(apparently from one of the Final Fantasy games) He gave it up when the troll started calling him Meghan. Now he goes by Dynamo

Lanky, the female human rigger

Boris, the Dwarf face

Arthur, the troll Dragonslayer shaman with plenty of killing spells. (No one has made the connection to some of the myths surrounding the king yet)

Ryo the Otaku. Who I, as GM, want to call Flatline. (He has compulsive 5, breaking into high level systems. dead.gif )
CardboardArmor
Oh shoot, bad street names?

Lesse, I've used Flatline (not in the sense moosegod used it), Knightstrike (claymore sammie), Jimmie Badass, Tripwire, Arclight, Longshot, Captain Hentai, Rising Sun, Rocks, and Rolls.
LaughingTiger
Both I and my players are always horrible at making up names for Trolls.

Brick, Tiny, Biggy Smalls have all made appearances. In my St. Louis SR game, the source of Troll, Trog lifestyle in the 'plex is a Troll thrash Metal Band named Sweet Jeezus, supposedly the first thing said by a record company exec upon hearing their sound.

They're founders/part of an all Troll gang called Baby James.
Brazila
Elvis forget a few, or was not there for them, I am not sure which?
Big Texas/Human cowboy, no magic no chrome all man
Zaith/mage devil worshipper(Real name was Samuel Bloodvain)
Scorpion/bad MK rippoff sammy(real name Zaith Black) same player!
The Troll/Big troll sammy
Turbo/elven rigger on novacoke
& worst of all was Finger a dwarven rat shaman who introduced himself by asking you to pull his finger!!!
Catsnightmare
Some would consider Brick, a cheesey street name. But at least I didn't pick it, I couldn't decide on a street name and one of the other players looked at my sheet and saw the Body 10, 2 points of mystic armor human physad, and said "We're just gonna call you Brick."

The only other street name I didn't pick was given to my first 3rd edition character, an out of the book weapons specialist archatype. After a disasterous run in Amazonia he was re-nicknamed Gator (short for Gator Bait), after I wound up spending 6 karma in failure re-rolls in only 3 or 4 rounds, just to keep from being killed by meta-crocodiles.
That and after the last session in which I spent 5 karma to keep the char alive after disasterous dice rolls, OOC they started calling me, Karma Platinum. For the way I spent karma points like there was no limit.

{edit}
And you can bet your hoop I don't use that set of damned dice anymore.
Arethusa
I have to say, so far, best I've seen was a kid who went by Night Blade. When I burst out laughing uncontrollably at first hearing it, he was deeply offended, very confused, and even more belligerent. After much ridicule from the group and much whining from him about how it was a very good name that suited his character, he settled on the potentially even more cloddish Thanatos.

Second was a guy who went by Abas (pronounce ah-bahss), which isn't very good on its own, but was pretty damn stupid considering he insisted that Boss for short was just fine.

Me? I've only played one game, and I went by David. Personally, I thought it worked just fine.

(For the curious, that is neither my real name nor my character's, though considering why my real name is, I might do something about that soon.)
Egon
this wasn't a character but our reacquiring fixer "Cool Running" has seen constant use for 6 years now with no signs of slowing down.
Slapstick
I also used a "jack frost." He was a vampire hunter, and I made him after the first Blade flic (Decon Frost).

I also liked the blade-boy named Jonnie ("here's...)

We also had one (very good player) who was playing a total idjit cyber-goon during the Harliquin's Back run. After a rather odd scene of him jury-rigging a condom from the intestine of some para-pegasus intestine (original 'sheepskins' were sheep intestine) he recieved the name "Condom Boy."

Slapstick the Cartoon Totem

There's some one playing "Dub" (short for WTF).

Numerous characters with a name having something to do with the element murcury.

and Rasputin (pronounced Ras-PUTIN!)
Moon-Hawk
In one game, all of the PC's decided to pick their street names together, with a theme. Tragically, I can only remember two of them at the moment.
Kraven Moorehead
Howie Feltersnatch.
Fresno Bob
Interesting wordplay...
Smiley
QUOTE (Moon-Hawk @ Apr 12 2004, 12:38 PM)
In one game, all of the PC's decided to pick their street names together, with a theme.  Tragically, I can only remember two of them at the moment.
Kraven Moorehead
Howie Feltersnatch.

Hey, i know those guys. They hung around with Heywood Jablowme and Phil McGroin, didn't they?
Moon-Hawk
That's them, allright!
Anyone else know of any of their associates?
Smiley
Harry Krotch, Benjamin Dover (Ben, for short), Phillip Macooter?
Mr.Platinum
We had a guy in the group named ShadowWalker...we just ended up calling him street walker.
Egon
QUOTE (Moon-Hawk)
That's them, allright!
Anyone else know of any of their associates?

wernt they friends with the Comon-I-Wanta-Lickya tribe

you kown the one with Big Chief Smokes-Alota-Pot and his son Little Pokes-Alota-Twat
broho_pcp
Mike Hunt
Hugh G. Rection
Moonstone Spider
Let's see:

Mona Lisa
Female Physad/Face. Name was a warped version of her real name, Monica Lysander.

Cheese:
Male Physad all of who's powers were geased to the incantation: "Behold the power of Cheese!" Yes, that character was pure cheese.

Waffles:
Male Mage who had a problem making his mind up, compulsively second guessing every decision he made, hence constant waffling.

Lanky:
Female Rigger who wanted to be a Spider Shaman and thus used walker drones by preference. Named for her build, thin and lanky.

Torque:
Male Medic who tried to call himself Torquemada after the leader of the Spanish inquisition. His buddies found it too long and started calling him torque, after which he started getting all kinds of offers for a rigger since that's what his new name sounded like.
Moonstone Spider
Let's see:

Mona Lisa
Female Physad/Face. Name was a warped version of her real name, Monica Lysander.

Cheese:
Male Physad all of who's powers were geased to the incantation: "Behold the power of Cheese!" Yes, that character was pure cheese.

Waffles:
Male Mage who had a problem making his mind up, compulsively second guessing every decision he made, hence constant waffling.

Lanky:
Female Rigger who wanted to be a Spider Shaman and thus used walker drones by preference. Named for her build, thin and lanky.

Torque:
Male Medic who tried to call himself Torquemada after the leader of the Spanish inquisition. His buddies found it too long and started calling him torque, after which he started getting all kinds of offers for a rigger since that's what his new name sounded like.
Moon-Hawk
The martial arts master: Won-hung-lo

Okay, I'm done now, I promise.
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