| From: | Patrick Goodman remo@***.net |
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| Subject: | NPC Deckers [was: Construction of items...] |
| Date: | Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:29:02 -0500 |
> >come up with.
>
> If a fool calls you something you have not earned, he is a fool.
> What do you call yourself? (In character)
I don't play much anymore, but when I do, my characters tend to be pretty
honest about what they are. Bane, my current character, calls himself what
he is, a gang leader. He hasn't quite gotten the concept of "ghoul" wrapped
around his brain yet, though he's that, too.
Going back a ways, Dancer...Dancer thinks of himself, first and foremost, as
a sniper, though he's getting a bit long in the tooth to be the
down-and-dirty, Remo-Williams-with-wires assassin he started out being.
He's in good shape for being 43, keeps up with the SOTA curve as best he
can, but that sort of thing is a young man's game
He used to be in the CAS special forces until his whole unit got left behind
in Aztlan. He survived, cashiered out, and disappeared from the scopes for
a while. While I didn't have a copy of the Ranger's creed handy, I did have
some friends who were in the Rangers, and I knew what was expected, and
that's how I play Dancer, either as a PC if someone is crazy enough to let
me play him, or as an NPC in my campaign. His primary rule when sending a
team in to do anything is "No one gets left behind."
But, when asked point-blank what he does, he calls himself a sniper.
What this signifies is...well, I don't know what it signifies. You decide.
> I only react negatively if the character describes him or herslef as
> a samurai and is no more a samurai than I am.
Again, fair enough.
> Besides, they are not samurai if they are independents. A samurai
> has a legee lord whom he is beholden to.
I think the word you're looking for here is "liege." And, in one fashion or
another, Dancer has one of those, too.
> Is it a lot of fuss of mear words? There are no such thing as "mear"
> words, especially not with titles of honor and rank. ("Don't call me
> 'sir', I work for a living!")
I may have been a zoomie, but I was a non-commissioned zoomie. That "sir"
business made me crazy, too.
--
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
