From:	Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Old Age Runners (and nickname)
Date:	Sat, 9 May 1998 16:43:51 -0500

Re: Old Age Runners (John Penta , 16:12)

Erik said on 5/7/98:
>To try and drag this kicking and screaming back on-topic, how old are
>your
>PCs? Excepting any munchy IEs and the like that is.
>
>It's been my experience that most runner are between 18 and 25.
>Anyone
>notably older than that (Keith, I know you have one or two there)? My
>own
>primary PC is I think 32 years old; nearly ancient by SR standards I
>think.


Mongoose is 38 in our timeline (having been born new years, 2018- gack,
thats pushing 43 in FASA's timeline). I wanted to play an "old fart",
with a lot of contacts, a solid rep, good (but "tried and true") cyber,
and on the brink of a "midlife crisis" (he's an elf, but heck, its not
like he's met anybody older than 80).
I like playing a charcter with a longer past and no need for an
attitude. I don't think running, at certain levels, should / could be a
young persons game. It was also interesting writing a background for a
"first wave" elf, and a very "unelven" one at that. For example, he's
EX-ancients; he can't stand all the new Sprethiel spewing "fops", and
remembers when the Ancients were about funny-looking kids banding
together to not to get beat up (and later running some really violent
rackets)- his crew as a youth ganger was the "Insane Ancients".
So, there yah go, a 2 fer one- a nickname source, and a "old runner".
BTW, "Mongoose" was his mom's nickname for him, since he was the first
metahuman in the family, just like the quiksilver Mongoose was the first
awakened critter. His ganger name was "Zipgun", cause he had a implant
shotgun (no cyberarm- cheap, but an essence hog, if you go by
Cybertechnolgy). Still has it- in a stongbox, not in his body. He went
over to "Mongoose" when he became a "made man" of sorts, since it was
partly that he was given upgraded speed-wares in return for saving a
major Chicago fixers life, so that he could be one of the guys
bodyguards. He's since played rikki-tikki-tavi for team mates more than
a few times.

-Mongoose