From:	"Michael R. Goldberg" <mrgoldbe@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Chessmen
Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:38:34 -0600

>
>>>Kristling is planned to be presued by 32 "players" called the chess
>>>men.
>>
>>You'll need to call them something else I'm afraid. The "Chess Men"
>>per se were introduced by Sascha Pabst, Querty, myself and Bull about
>>two years ago. There's quite extensive postings from them in the
>>older logs. Sorry and all that but The Chess Men already exist on
>>Stk, they've just been rather quiet of late.
>
>It wouldn't make much sense to change it now, and besides, why can't
>two org's, by coincedence, have the same name? It could happen in real
>life. I wouldn't be surprised, for another example, if there was more
>than one bunch of runners/whatever who name themselves after the four
>horsemen.

Hey now! 8*P I objected when Black Knight was used then (and
actually, I already commented on it yesterday to Daniel), and I would
probably object to using the names War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death
by others. There would have to be some distinction in the names to
indicate differences -- e-mail address of the different authors would
confuse people who are just reading quickly [especially since on my
history of being on the list, I have posted from three different
accounts]. I've not been using Famine's original running directly on a
post because it would confuse her with all the stuff that Paul has
going on with the Farmer junk.

There are otherways to have a reference to the 4 horsemen without
duplicating the names I have already picked.

(And yes, one of the days, I plan to bombard the cast listing with a
whole bunch of characters. If only I had spare time.)

Let me say this, that yes, in the Shadowrun world there are probably
multiple Midnight's out there, and multiple horsemen group's out there,
but on Shadowtk it is easier to keep distinctions if the names aren't
recycled, or if they are to have something different about them. For
instance:

Raven the Mage
Raven the Decker
etc.

(As I recall, Raven was incredibly popular at one point, and Midnight
was too. For Midnight, we just had a different spelling to keep the
two separate. I didn't know it at the time, but it became more
important when I decided to bring Midnight back to the list.)

Later,
Mike