Some names tell a story. Some names have a history. Some names just randomly spring up, apparently out of nowhere.
All of us here have at least two names... one we were given, by our parents, to go by in the "real" world, and one we use online, our net handle.
Some of us go by many names online. Some by just one.
Where did your net handle come from? Why did you choose it? What's the story of your name?
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I'll start...
In the beginning, I was known online as Rhialto, named after the sarcastic and self-superior magician in Jack Vance's book "Rhialto the Marvelous". Haven will remember that handle back from our days on Mono.
This handle I took with me to a couple of online games, mainly for roleplaying (AmberMUSH, notably, a roleplaying environment themed on Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles).
During that same time I started playing Netrek. I used various handles over a few months but I found that my play style was all fast-attack, rapid retreat, strike and fade... so I chose and stuck with a new handle, Lightning.
As Lightning I became well know. Back in the days of the Birmingham Uni Starbase Practice Server, I was the highest scoring trainee according to their logs. Hell, I wandered into a Netrek server a good nine months after I'd stopped playing, under the name Lightning, and one of the top ten guys at Netrek in Europe (called KIA) remembered me straight away ("Hey, are you the Lightning back from the B'ham days?"... I'm just sooo egotistical
).
Still, while playing Netrek I was invited to join a newly forming team competing in the European Netrek League (ENL). We were a ragtag group of players, the best of those who were not already clanned. We were Team Ronin. All of us renamed ourselves for the team, prefixing our names with "Ronin". I played the Starbase and, given the circumstances (and name length restrictions) the obvious choice for my new handle was "Ronin Storm".
In Netrek they have a word for an all-out suicide attack. Some believe it might have Dutch origins, but no one seemed to know exactly. They call this attack an "Ogg". Against, DEAD, probably the top euro clan, in our first game I stood against their full-team ogg on my base and survived. I never played better. In the same season, I had a starbase that survived eight seconds, the shortest survival time in the history of the ENL. Ups and downs.
Still, I have fond memories of those days and so, to remind me, and because the name fits me in more ways than I care to mention, I am now know mainly as Ronin Storm.
I have other names too, here and there, but I'll let some others talk now.
All of us here have at least two names... one we were given, by our parents, to go by in the "real" world, and one we use online, our net handle.
Some of us go by many names online. Some by just one.
Where did your net handle come from? Why did you choose it? What's the story of your name?
[hr=left]50[/hr]
I'll start...
In the beginning, I was known online as Rhialto, named after the sarcastic and self-superior magician in Jack Vance's book "Rhialto the Marvelous". Haven will remember that handle back from our days on Mono.
This handle I took with me to a couple of online games, mainly for roleplaying (AmberMUSH, notably, a roleplaying environment themed on Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles).
During that same time I started playing Netrek. I used various handles over a few months but I found that my play style was all fast-attack, rapid retreat, strike and fade... so I chose and stuck with a new handle, Lightning.
As Lightning I became well know. Back in the days of the Birmingham Uni Starbase Practice Server, I was the highest scoring trainee according to their logs. Hell, I wandered into a Netrek server a good nine months after I'd stopped playing, under the name Lightning, and one of the top ten guys at Netrek in Europe (called KIA) remembered me straight away ("Hey, are you the Lightning back from the B'ham days?"... I'm just sooo egotistical
).Still, while playing Netrek I was invited to join a newly forming team competing in the European Netrek League (ENL). We were a ragtag group of players, the best of those who were not already clanned. We were Team Ronin. All of us renamed ourselves for the team, prefixing our names with "Ronin". I played the Starbase and, given the circumstances (and name length restrictions) the obvious choice for my new handle was "Ronin Storm".
In Netrek they have a word for an all-out suicide attack. Some believe it might have Dutch origins, but no one seemed to know exactly. They call this attack an "Ogg". Against, DEAD, probably the top euro clan, in our first game I stood against their full-team ogg on my base and survived. I never played better. In the same season, I had a starbase that survived eight seconds, the shortest survival time in the history of the ENL.
Ups and downs.Still, I have fond memories of those days and so, to remind me, and because the name fits me in more ways than I care to mention, I am now know mainly as Ronin Storm.
I have other names too, here and there, but I'll let some others talk now.
