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[memnus]

So, I've ordered a new computer, in ten parts. It'll be fun. The problem, of course, is that I'm running out of names for things. My current naming scheme is pretty scattershot - see the title of this journal for what has passed as a basis in the past - and I think it's time to settle on an actual pattern:

• LAGBANE: My current desktop, even though the Windows boot doesn't know it. It also very much does not live up to its name; most programs take almost thirty seconds to load in Gnome.
• SOULTOOTH: My laptop series, now in its fourth incarnation.
• The Madhouse: Wherever I may be living. Fairly self-explanatory, really.
• The Sube: My trusty car, still going by the shorthand it went by when I was in high school. The irony of that is that my family drives nothing but Subarus, so it was never the most descriptive name.
• Vera: My bow, and yes, that means what you think it means (it's commodoremarie's fault. Should I ever get another one, it will be named Melody.
• HAVEN: A recent name, reserved for MP3 players.

Sadly, that's where it runs out. I don't want to attach an entire pattern to someone else's intellectual property (sigh), so that leads me almost directly to naming things after the characters I've ended up playing.

Disclaimer #1: A lot of these characters are awfully cliche. I present them for completeness.

Disclaimer #2: This is not an exhaustive list. If you remember any others that should be on this list, please let me know.

Disclaimer #3: My memory's not actually this good. I just have a folder that I used to put all my random RPG papers into, and never threw any of it out.

• Yemetina Koral of Sernpidal: First character ever! AD&D 2nd edition paladin in an online living world, gained a small amount of notoriety as the demon-posessed paladin before falling at about 6th level, eventually died when the party ranger exploded. That was a mean world.
• Darion Koral (Jr.), said paladin's kleptomaniac brother in the same world and her successor.
• Terroniat Sernpidal, said paladin's sister in a completely unrelated and incompatible campaign. Sensing a theme? Yeah, yeah, I was 14.
• James Imar, "Sally", the street urchin that was dubbed Sally when he didn't tell his real name right off.
• *name forgotten*, a fighter/mage I'd occasionally play in one-shots on the Internet.
• Al'matly Arbreau, a wild mage I also had around for one-shots... good old WebRPG.
• Phil Mutzman, a used-spaceship salesman in an extremely short-lived Alternity campaign.
• Saeris Treeborough, halfling rogue and my first 3ed character, in the Bandora campaign. I miss Bandora. Eventually dabbled in wizardry, and that campaign was abandoned.
• Tanbar Haye, human-cat shapeshifter monk.
• Ana Whisperlace, half-blue-dragon wizard/rogue. She had a shocker lizard for a familiar - how cute!
• Chi Rho, the monk with a vow of silence, from the era when my high school group would only accept monosyllabic names.
• Dib Dew, fighter-priest of chaos in Diegesis, the last great campaign from my high school group.
• Hithwen Mithtalath, my other Diegesis character.
• Bethany Skylark, aasimar paladin from the Diegesis: TNG campaign we tried the first summer I was back from Mudd.
• Tanil Towerborne, the one Forgotten Realms character I ever played, in the Westgate campaign that briefly replaced Bandora.
• Sindylanus, yuan-ti pirate chaplain. He was excellent fun to play, and I would love to resurrect him someday.
• *name forgotten,* bard from the Sundered Realms campaign.
• *name forgotten,* barbarian from Steph and Dan's campaign that didn't last particularly long.
• *name forgotten,* air-traffic-controller-turned-Rebel-spy, from Richard's Star Wars campaign.
• Cyrus Trailhead, aka Caleb Talltrees, from what I idly thought of as the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship campaign. He was a total ripoff of Saeris, but that's ok.
• Spingear Spindlefingers, aka Fleck, my only currently active character.
• Elena Lehrer, Fleck's backup and my portable deus ex machina - she has Teleport, Raise Dead, and a convenient gift of prophecy.

I'd forgotten just how many completely random campaigns we dabbled in in high school. In addition to those, I remember one Mage: The Ascension game and at least two V:tM games (in one of which we played ourselves).

I think from that list I like Skylark best, though finding that folder was quite amusing and a few of those names might actually be useful in the future.

Looking over that list has reminded me of all the games I never did get to play, but really really wanted to. First, anything in the Scarred Lands campaign setting. Second, something involving "gestalt" characaters, a high-power variant where you level in two classes simulatneously and take the features of both.

Wow. That post became something very different than I'd expected. Surprise nostalgia attack!!

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Comments

[qullex.livejournal.com]

Vera? In Russian it means "faith". Does that mean what it sounds like or am I missing something?

[memnus.livejournal.com]

Interesting - in Latin it means "true". That was my justification at the time, but when the dust clears it's a Firefly reference.

Is Russian more influenced by Latin than I think it is, or is that just an etymological coincidence?

[qullex.livejournal.com]

Ah, I forgot that gun. I haven't seen the series in a while. Russian is influenced by Greek a lot actually, but I do not know the etymology of the word off the top of my head and am too lazy right now to check.