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Alyrium Denryle

The name of the DM(me) and his NPC whenever I need to fill in a party.

My sig

well I am the DM, I am the leader of the AIIF, and a member of the ATJ and the BOTM.

Location

Well, it used to dtate my actual location, but the new one just sounds better.

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I like mages, particularly evil mages that wear black robes and take out gods. :twisted:
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I picked a unoriginal name, but Chose the avatar of clan star adder as I thought the Battletech clans are very cool, I intially had Steel Viper for a while but I felt the Star adder was a better match for my name.

I gave the name of a random ISD for my location and my main sig came from the infamous stalin quote at the beginning of the bT book "bred for war".
"a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic"-Joseph Stalin

"No plan survives contact with the enemy"-Helmuth Von Moltke

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Post by Alyrium Denryle »

I love elven naming conventions as well... :D
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Name: The shorter version of this story is that during a trip with some friends in high school, we played a big of Ouija and a spirit in the board named me Zaia (pronounced ZI-uh, with a long i, as in 'eye'). The spirit (nicknamed Q, in case you care) said that I was totally kickass, didn't need 'guardians' like everyone else and that spirits wrote poetry for me because I was so cool. (*shrug* Dunno, my friends were probably all on drugs--this happened when I wasn't even in the room!) Anyway, Zaia was more of a title and not a name, but I've sort of turned it into a name since then.

Avatar: She's a lovely lady by the name of Laika from the Tsunami Channel which Iggy so graciously found for me. I requested an adorable redhead, and he delivered. Thanks, handsome!

Sig: I try to change it often. Until today, it was a quote of Ando fumbling all over his words. I put it in my sig because it absolutely shit him that I did so. :twisted: Since then I've changed it to include a line from an Indigo Girl's song and now it has part of the bridge from "Title of the Song" by Da Vinci's Notebook (it's a hilarious boy-band-esque song that makes fun of boy-band songs). The 'femme fatale' part was something Ando said about me, and the rest of it is just the groups I belong to here.
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Post by Cal Wright »

Well, I guess I will start with my name.
DG_Cal_Wright
First off that's how you usually have to make your name on microsoft's gaming zone. That's why it's like that here.
DG stands for Dark Guard. It's an Imperial clan or 'fleet' as we call it since it's roots started with X-Wing vs TIE Fighter.
Cal is short for Califerous. The name started on the AoL chatrooms for the room starwarsspacebattles. Where you basically chat room simmed naval battles. It was bad ass at times. Originally it was Cal Wright. Cal for Cal Ripken since he always shows up, and I usually have an outstanding attendence record. Wright for the Wright brothers in relation to flight.

Jedi Knight because I'm not a master yet. heh

The avatar was graciously given to me by Admiral Kanos/Lord Wong. I merely asked how to find and make and avatar of such and he just did it for me. Bad ass!

The location is the Super-Class Star Destroyer 'Blight'. This has actually been many different ships, but I settled on an SSD since commanders had thier own fleets in the Dark Guard.

The sigs are strange.

The first one is taken from Gundam Wing and reworded to the squadron later wing that I commanded in the Dark Guard.

Second one is a quote from Darkstar himself.

Last is in response to some poster here sort of whining about me using 'fucking' too many times in a post.

+1 is self explanatory.


p.s. +1!

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Post by Raxmei »

Name is just my middle name. I think it means something but I don't know what it is.

Avatar is a skaven. I have an interest in rats. I have made some additions for the holidays.

My signature is pretty dull. The quote comes from a poster in the background of couple episodes of 8-Bit Theatre. I thought it fit with the board atmosphere.
Next is self-explanatory. I don't read it very often, though.
Finally there's my VTM character.

I used to put my full name in my sig but I eventually decided I wasn't comfortable with it there.
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Doc Horror: the name comes from the Nocturnals comics by Dan Brereton.

Avatar: that is Doc Horror

Sig: Bill Hicks & my BOTM position...
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Actually Raxmei your avatar isnt a Skaven, its Cluny the Warlord from Brain Jacques's Redwall series of books.......I think...
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Tsyroc is my name Cory S (middle initial) T (last initial) backwards. For some reason one of the guys I knew in the Navy got a kick out of saying people's names backwards. I guess that kind of stuck in my head. :?


My current avatar is a slightly moddified version of a Jade Mortal Kombat emblem. I ususually go by the blue ice version but went with the green (with red background) for the holidays.

My current sig is a very short and not too visible quote from The Raven
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
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Post by DocHorror »

OOooppss..sorry Raxmei, after much scruiteny and realisation, I have to admit I was wrong...

Your avatar is a Scaven, not Cluny as I had thought!

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Ok my turn...

Name: Slartibartfast, it's the name of a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. He's in the business of building custom planets and has been frozen for millions of years after helping design Earth to wait until it was ready to answer the universal question (actually, to figure out the question that makes the answer mean anything)

He's embarassed by his name, btw.

Avatar: it's from the Hitchhiker TV program, taken from the BBC website, cropped and scaled. Why is it upside down? Because it's the version for the Holidays, obviously. Duh!

Who is he? Well Slartibartfast of course.

Signature: it's a quote from one of my favorite computer games of all time: Star Control II. damn that game is deep, and hilarious too... too bad I can't include musical themes on the sig 8)

The picture is of the guys who are talking in that quote. The colors aren't gratuitous either: I changed it to reflect the color of the character that's doing the talking.
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Did you know his original name was Fartifuckballz?

I wonder why Doug changed it...
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Post by Zaia »

Raxmei wrote:Name is just my middle name. I think it means something but I don't know what it is.
Dude, that is such a kickass middle name.
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Post by Lord Sauron-Tyranus-Vader »

Slartibartfast wrote:Ok my turn...

Name: Slartibartfast, it's the name of a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. He's in the business of building custom planets and has been frozen for millions of years after helping design Earth to wait until it was ready to answer the universal question (actually, to figure out the question that makes the answer mean anything)

He's embarassed by his name, btw.

Avatar: it's from the Hitchhiker TV program, taken from the BBC website, cropped and scaled. Why is it upside down? Because it's the version for the Holidays, obviously. Duh!

Who is he? Well Slartibartfast of course.

Signature: it's a quote from one of my favorite computer games of all time: Star Control II. damn that game is deep, and hilarious too... too bad I can't include musical themes on the sig 8)

The picture is of the guys who are talking in that quote. The colors aren't gratuitous either: I changed it to reflect the color of the character that's doing the talking.
I always thought your avatar looked like Saruman from LOTR.....
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Post by Knife »

Very well then, since I took the time to read this threa, I might as well participate.



Knife: This was the call sign that I used durring aggressing ops while I was an intructor at a CST school in the Corps.

Avatar: Was going to use a pic of Luke and Vader crossing sabers in RotJ, but the pic I had didn't work so I looked around for a simular one but couldn't find the one from RotJ I liked so went with the TESB scene instead.

Sig: Well it's one of my favorite little rants about a horribly difficult, unrewarding, unrelenting, and all the more worthwhile profession that most people take for granted.
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But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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My avatar is one of Al Howe's creations. He's an incredible artist who resides at www.webdragon.com

My name is just a thing I pulled from an ancient MUD, called LambdaMOO. There was a creature you could fight in it called the Lag Monster, to reflect the popular fact that people often died in combat in that text-based online game because of lag. When I got into FPS's, I adopted it as my own name. It makes me happy when people die in Quake and type in, "No fair! I had lag!" and "I died because of that crappy lag."

My sig is a combination of a quote I wrote in a book of mine in college, a pimp activity for my favorite freeware multiplayer shooter game, and a comment that I though was particularly funny at the time, when on another group it was pointed out to me that I am often the last person to post in any thread, thus it was concluded that I commit threadicide.
Note: I'm semi-retired from the board, so if you need something, please be patient.
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Name: Came from old high school nickname I had. I just use the comic alter-ego and the real visa versa.

Avatar: only one I could find that had any real definition...well that and the other one :)

Quote: Easy. Comes from Killing Joke, and how I feel about the past.
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My take on this...


Well, my name is from HMS Warspite, the venerable WWI and WWII battleship... It participated in all major theatres and got the job done.

My avatar: Ooops, still working on it...

My sigs:
The first one is from ST:VI, but I'm getting fed up with it, the next is from ANH, the last words of Tarkin, gotta love that guy, Merry Christmas to you all, and the final one, I found it on the Spacebattles boards from Darkstar, kinda amusing, calling the Harkonnen Count a "nasty fat man".
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Since Necronlord didn't like anything about my name, I will explain. It started when my cousin Ethan W Owens was born. He needed a nickname, so I started calling him Ewo. But then I moved so I haven't seen him in years but I still liked the name, so it was the name of my bad-ass genasi rogue.
The avatar is from the comic "defiance" http://www.darkchamber.com/defiance/main.html
which is about the people who lived in hell before it was hell trying to fight to get their land back. That is one of the main characters, she kicks ass. Plus she can hide her soul in different things so they can't kill her.
The quotes speak for themselves. But I will take this space to give you a new deep thought...
"People who use hand gestures while talking on the phone are just about as useless as a necrophiliac giving a hand job"
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That was a stupid thing to say and you are stupid for saying it!
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Ewo wrote:"People who use hand gestures while talking on the phone are just about as useless as a necrophiliac giving a hand job"
ROTF, Ewo!! That was from your room party!! That quote is Justin's, isn't it? Mmmmmm....Jusssstin.......*snaps self out of it* Argh. How long has it been since we've seen him and that still happens? Sheesh. That's what that towel does... :twisted:
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Stravo is the name of a charcater in a sci fi novel I wrote that I'm trying to get published. He is not the hero of teh story but a major player. He is an assassin and the last of his race that is slowly realizing that he may hold the key to the answer of what precsiely happened to his people and the galaxy in the aftermath of a great war that changed everything. I thought the name imparted a sort of cold menace without being too stereotypicaly badass.

My avatar is ripped shirt Kirk form Arena, with some nice holiday cheer added by Stormbringer. Those who know me recognize that I beleive that James Kirk is one of teh graetest characters created in fiction and thus always has a special place in my heart (and in my current fanfic)

Sig line: The first is straight from Buckaroo Banzai, an funny little cult film that had quite a few throw away lines like this one.

My current character in the New Orleans by Night Chronicle being run by Kelly.

Ripped Shirt Monkey - I have recently joined the Brotherhood of the MOnkey and this is my chosen name, the name I am referred to in public, my private name among the brotherhood is hard to pronounce but roughly translates into "He who enjoys rough sex with Crisco."
Wherever you go, there you are.

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Nova Andromeda -- Well back when the net was text based I simply went by Nova which was the name I used in flight sims and other games since I was exceptionally good at destroying stuff. Later on I had to make it more unique so I added the last name Andromeda. In the end though I give the name meaning not the other way around. You may also wish to note this is the femanine form and the masculine form is Novus Andromedus. However the using the femanine version keeps my gender rather anbiguous (women are always treated with more respect on the net than men and with even more respect if it is uncertain they are a woman).
Avatar -- The avatar is from Stellar Crisis http://sc.lugdunum.net:9130/ and is my Empire's avatar. One of my favorite strategies in that game is to anhilate entire systems... :twisted: BTW, I was born in the year of the Dragon and chinese blood flows though my veins.
Sig -- My sig. is just that ... my signature ... as in my name. I have no need for cute or witty sayings or pictures. They tend to clutter the board and usually aren't all that cute or witty anyhow. If you really want a saying from me how about this: "You can agree with me or you can be wrong." This is a quote from a cat and can basically can be interpreted thusly: a cat is never wrong and to disagree with one is to be wrong... :)
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BOTM...BWUAH!!!

BOTM, and a common AIM greeting of mine.

Urge for villainy rising...

Came from 8-bit theatre (the Princess)

post count +1, evil count +2

I post a lot. And I am evil. Any questions?

Stupid Fundie. Logic's for Kids!

Random saying i had one day. THinking about taking it out.

Cult of the Kitten: [mew]

Well.....kind of an old inside joke between a few of us.

All bow down to my powers of Sleep Deprivation! (TM)

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Post 666: Tue Oct 08, 2002 10:46 am, 1000: Tue Oct 22, 2002 9:07 am

Self-explanatory, I hope.

GLBT stuff: "Always forward, never straight." and "Don't assume I'm a breeder."

Same thing here.

Name: verilon

From a pure fic that I am writing.

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A pic I picked up from someone's LiveJournal.
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Ver, it's the evil monkey that lives in Chris' room from Family Guy.
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neoolong wrote:Ver, it's the evil monkey that lives in Chris' room from Family Guy.
neeolong, I got it from someone's LJ.
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