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Message no. 1
From: "Faux Pas (Thomas)" <thomas@*******.COM>
Subject: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 15:35:51 -0500
At 01:01 PM 5/1/97 -0700, Loki whispered:
>Actually, Gabriel is Rookie's character in our current game. Who know
>the stree name had become cliché. <shrug>
>
>:o)

You want a cliche street name? Include one of the following words as part
of your shadowrunning name: Black, Hawk, Fire, Death, Stalker, Night,
Kill, or Razor. Mix and match kiddies! It's fun!

"What's your handle, kid?"

"They call me Deathstalker."

"Just a guess here. This is your first run, right?"


-Thomas Deeny
Over 3,400 people have partied at http://telltale.hart.org since Jan 6th!
The Digital Mage's archive: http://telltale.hart.org/digitalmage/intro.html

"This is turning into another one of those Tick things, isn't it?
-Arthur
Message no. 2
From: Denzil Kruse <dkruse@***.AZ05.BULL.COM>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:04:00 MST
>You want a cliche street name? Include one of the following words as part
>of your shadowrunning name: Black, Hawk, Fire, Death, Stalker, Night,
>Kill, or Razor. Mix and match kiddies! It's fun!

Totally true, but left out Ice, Blast, and Claw.

In cyberpunk and super-hero games its kind of hard to think up an original
name, unless you pick something like Chuck-Chuck Razool (cool name). If I'm
basing my character on a concept or idea and want a name to fit, I pretty
much accept that somebody has already used the name before.

Sometimes I'll name him something I figure nobody else would want. One of
my first characters took the extended volume lungs and a special skill Luegy
Hocking. We even figured how far he could spit ;-). He was a smelly,
ornery ork named Camel.

I also used Tinman and Scarecrow, and one day looked through all the books I
had and found Scarecrow in the PAoNA (I think) and was pissed.

Denzil Kruse
d.kruse@****.com
Message no. 3
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 00:42:02 +0100
In message <3.0.32.19970501153550.006f30c4@***>, "Faux Pas (Thomas)"
<thomas@*******.COM> writes
>You want a cliche street name? Include one of the following words as part
>of your shadowrunning name: Black, Hawk, Fire, Death, Stalker, Night,
>Kill, or Razor. Mix and match kiddies! It's fun!
>
>"What's your handle, kid?"
>
>"They call me Deathstalker."
>
>"Just a guess here. This is your first run, right?"

Or there's the other extreme.

"What's your name, kid?"

"They call me Lynch."

"Your _real_ name, not your handle."

"Jason Running Wolf Lynch."


It can work :)


--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 4
From: tom Cone <Brother-1@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 14:33:00 -1000
>In Super-hero and cyberpunk games it's hard
>to think up original names.

Brother-1. haven't seen that one elsewhere.
Message no. 5
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 00:56:06 +0100
In message <9705012106.AA13359@***.az05.bull.com>, Denzil Kruse
<dkruse@***.AZ05.BULL.COM> writes
>In cyberpunk and super-hero games its kind of hard to think up an original
>name, unless you pick something like Chuck-Chuck Razool (cool name). If I'm
>basing my character on a concept or idea and want a name to fit, I pretty
>much accept that somebody has already used the name before.

Actually, I ripped my first characters out of fiction.

My very first Shadowrun PC was "Turner" - straight from Count Zero.

My second was Lynch, whose name I stole from somewhere, can't remember
where.

The third was Quinn, from Larry Heinemann's "Close Quarters" but also
from the Manfred Mann song.

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 6
From: Mike Hartmann <hartmann@***********.M.EUNET.DE>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 08:18:08 +0000
On 1 May 97 at 14:04, Denzil Kruse wrote:

> I also used Tinman and Scarecrow, and one day looked through all the books I
> had and found Scarecrow in the PAoNA (I think) and was pissed.

Luckily I have never found my streetnames anywhere else.
My favorites still are
IO (a dwarf specialized in getting "I"n and "O"ut of buildings)
and Leveller (although he doesn't live to his name. Yet he hasn't
levelled anything..:-)

Bye Mike
Message no. 7
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 15:15:30 +1000
> You want a cliche street name? Include one of the following words as part
> of your shadowrunning name: Black, Hawk, Fire, Death, Stalker, Night,
> Kill, or Razor. Mix and match kiddies! It's fun!

Yup, I'm bringing in a new character next week:
Blackhawkstalkernightdeathfire. :)

Welll... everyone would HAVE to recognise the name!

Lady Jestyr

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Message no. 8
From: Brett Borger <SwiftOne@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:04:51 -0400
>I also used Tinman and Scarecrow, and one day looked through all the books I
>had and found Scarecrow in the PAoNA (I think) and was pissed.

Been there, done that....I always find it annoying to discover someone else
is using my name....

(Then again, if it was done intentionally, I would kill, or at least maim,
to get my name in there :) )

Of course, this does inspire another "mistaken identidy" run.

Johnson: "You must find the man who did this, and retrieve my property. He
will doubtless deny everything to save himself and his <insert innocent
person, usually female, here>. All we know is that he goes by the name Razor.

:)

On a related thought, in my games the runners always get to play "Find the
Smith". First, some background:

I was playing Marrow Project (a little known RPG) and my team was in a
barracks slaughtering baddies in their sleep. I needed to get the sargaent
out of his room so we could quietly kill him. So: I knocked (yeah, I'm one
of those 'less is more' types.)

me: Sarge, there are intruders at the west gate!"
Gruff Voice from inside: "Who is this?!?"
me: (thinking fast) Smith, Sir.
Gruff: Smith? There's no Smith here!

Things went downhill. I (and my character) spent the next half-hour (as I
dodged bullets) mumbleing "there's _ALWAYS_ a Smith!"

Ever since, I have always included at least 1 Smith in all my runs.
Sometimes he's a major player, sometimes he's just Joe Schmoe Smith at the
bar. Often the players never find out who Smith is. But he is _ALWAYS_
there.

[In that same game I hosed a room through the wooden walls with my
M-16....fired the whole belt of ammo. My GM laughed and said I had a 99%
chance to hit (Marrow Project uses percentile). I missed.]

-=SwiftOne=-
Message no. 9
From: Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci) -Reply
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:50:08 -0500
>First, some background:
>
>I was playing Marrow Project (a little known
>RPG) and my team was in a barracks
>slaughtering baddies in their sleep....

I remember that game! I ran it for a few years of
high school. I think it's actually called The
Morrow Project.

Double-Domed Mike
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Message no. 10
From: Gossamer <kajohnson@*******.TEC.WI.US>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:34:31 -0500
> >I also used Tinman and Scarecrow, and one day looked through all the
books I
> >had and found Scarecrow in the PAoNA (I think) and was pissed.
>
> Been there, done that....I always find it annoying to discover someone
else
> is using my name....
>
> (Then again, if it was done intentionally, I would kill, or at least
maim,
> to get my name in there :) )
>
> Of course, this does inspire another "mistaken identidy" run.

Or you could get into the 'The Tick vs The Tick' kind of thing...

"Barry barry barry barry!!"

Gossamer
Message no. 11
From: Black Death <ddmaster@**.NET>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 17:25:16 -0500
I ran into this when i went on ShadowTK as Black Knight. And he has been
a chararcter that i had when i started playing Shadowrun about 4-5 yrs
ago.
Message no. 12
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 23:52:57 +1000
> [In that same game I hosed a room through the wooden walls with my
> M-16....fired the whole belt of ammo. My GM laughed and said I had a 99%
> chance to hit (Marrow Project uses percentile). I missed.]

Sounds like another player who will remain nameless (since he's on the
list, huh, huh, Phantom?) - playing **&* his character had a 99%
Ressurrection Survival chance - and he hosed it. Playing SR, his
character was parachuting.

GM: Oh well, roll an Athletics test to make sure you get the chute open.
Player: Uh-oh. All ones.
GM: Oh. Ummm... well, that chute got snarled. Roll another Athletics
test to use the emergency chute.
Player: <wince> Would you believe all ones?
GM: Oh dear.

Lady Jestyr

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A titanic intellect in a world full of icebergs
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http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1503/
http://jestyr.home.ml.org/
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Message no. 13
From: GRANITE <granite@**.NET>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 13:46:36 -0700
> From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
> GM: Oh well, roll an Athletics test to make sure you get the chute open.
> Player: Uh-oh. All ones.
> GM: Oh. Ummm... well, that chute got snarled. Roll another Athletics
> test to use the emergency chute.
> Player: <wince> Would you believe all ones?
> GM: Oh dear.

LOL....I've seen footage of this little problem recently that would
allow the victi..er..PC a chance to survive...In the footage the
paradropper's main chute turned into a big mess..adn instead of
cutting it away he pops the reserve..which promptly snarles around
the main knot..Then this dude finally smacks into the ground..and
then goes bounce a couple of times..and just as everyone including
the rock with arms thinks he is a human pancake..he stands up...True
Story..dude didn't even get a scratch..and it was all caught on
video..Any way the player could then roll all of his karma pool..or
maybe his body rating or perhaps both..and depending on the rolls
might just make it..there have been more than a few precedents for
this type of survival...Weird but true... ;)
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The Courage To Change The Things I Can,
And The Wisdom To Hide The Bodies Of Those People I Had To Kill
Because They Pissed Me Off.
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Message no. 14
From: Shaun Sides <arch@****.ABTS.NET>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 16:55:54 -0500
Date: 1 May 97 Time: 20:04
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads a

TO: Brett Borger

> I was playing Marrow Project (a little known RPG) and my team was in

Uhh, Morrow Project. Yeah, good game. Played it once or twice, but
it's been a pretty long time ago. :)

a chaoidh teabadaich,

Shaun Sides
arch@****.net
http://www.abts.net/~arch

Evolution is proven by people who're too stupid to live.
-- Archangel
Message no. 15
From: Czar Eggbert <czregbrt@*********.EDU>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 18:28:29 -0500
On Thu, 1 May 1997, tom Cone wrote:

> >In Super-hero and cyberpunk games it's hard
> >to think up original names.
>
> Brother-1. haven't seen that one elsewhere.
>
Wasn't that one of the Bionic-6?

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Message no. 16
From: Ray & Tamara <macey@*******.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 18:03:16 +1000
> > You want a cliche street name? Include one of the following words as
part
> > of your shadowrunning name: Black, Hawk, Fire, Death, Stalker, Night,
> > Kill, or Razor. Mix and match kiddies! It's fun!
>
> Yup, I'm bringing in a new character next week:
> Blackhawkstalkernightdeathfire. :)
>
> Welll... everyone would HAVE to recognise the name!

I was going to run him. Damn, you got to him first.

Ray.

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Message no. 17
From: "MARTIN E. GOTTHARD" <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 12:04:52 +1000
> > [In that same game I hosed a room through the wooden walls with my
> > M-16....fired the whole belt of ammo. My GM laughed and said I had a 99%
> > chance to hit (Marrow Project uses percentile). I missed.]
>
> Sounds like another player who will remain nameless (since he's on the
> list, huh, huh, Phantom?) - playing **&* his character had a 99%
> Ressurrection Survival chance - and he hosed it. Playing SR, his
> character was parachuting.
>
> GM: Oh well, roll an Athletics test to make sure you get the chute open.
> Player: Uh-oh. All ones.
> GM: Oh. Ummm... well, that chute got snarled. Roll another Athletics
> test to use the emergency chute.
> Player: <wince> Would you believe all ones?
> GM: Oh dear.
>

Yeah, and after that the GM was actually *trying* to keep the characters
alive.... Didn't work.

Gotta love that Swiss army knife skill; Athletics.

Marty
Message no. 18
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Street names (was Re: Physads and weapon foci)
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 11:35:37 +0100
Czar Eggbert said on 18:28/ 3 May 97...

> > Brother-1. haven't seen that one elsewhere.
> >
> Wasn't that one of the Bionic-6?

Together with Sister-2, Father-3, Mother-4, Uncle-5, and Aunt-6? :)

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