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Ooo... you had 56k when you started?! When I first used Siolfir online it was at 1200 baud, and we liked it! Hey, you kids, get off my lawn! But I played on a MUD for a bit over 10 years before deciding to stop playing online games about a month before a friend bought a copy of CoV for me just after i7 was released...

Siolfir is (one of) the Old English spellings of silver, and was first used (by me at least) as an NPC name in a AD&D (not-really-1st-ed, but not using the 2nd edition books either) Dragonlance campaign (can you guess what the NPC was? The players couldn't...). When I saw it sitting in the entymology I thought it looked like a suitable "fantasy" type of name, so I stole it.

I've used it through various incarnations online, and while I may not play them often on CoH I have a Siolfir on every server of some build or another - the highest level being a level 39 DM/SR Scrapper that hasn't been played in 3 months.

And no, I don't have a twitter account - if you google siolfir you'll see some jerk stole my name! It's not the first time, either - I used to get a lot of junk email from various siolfir @ pick-a-free-email-provider due to webspiders picking it up.

But I've been using it online since the early 1990s, and I'm not going to stop just because of some copycats.
You make me miss Kender Illusionists running around in Planscape's Sigil. Too bad the door to Ravenloft was opened.... such a sad day.


 

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Gorgar was a pinball machine from '78 or so. It was the first one with speech. Very limited speech, about six words, but it was still cool. And, Helloween did a song about it. Chorus included "Gorgar will eat you". Couldn't resist it when I was going through my music collection looking for character name inspirations.

There's been a long line of handles before this one, and I wouldn't mind switching to a new one, but this works.


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Rusted Metal refers to all the metal implants I ended up after 10 years in the military.

A friend of mine commented that at the rate I was going, I'd end a cyborg, and I snarked that they'd probably build me out of rusted scrap metal.

So I use that nowadays.


"If you build it, they will run you over with it."-RPG Designers Mantra
Working on: YotZ Legends: Even Heroes Die (First Round Edit)

 

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The origin of my name goes way back to when I was first introduced to the wonderful world of the MMORPG. Star Wars: Galaxies.

You see, SWG had(has?) a random name generator, and when it came for making my first character I let it pick the name for me. It came up with Imeba Vil'Lan. Well I didn't like Imeba, sounded too much like amoeba. Changing the e to an o though just rang right in my ears.

Imoba left such a great impression on me (Still my favorite avatar I ever made, even if the game he was in was lackluster) that I used his name as my handle ever since.

Well that or on the rare occasion, Llawan, who was my second SWG character...


EDIT: forgot to add that I decided against using Vil'Lan in CoH because it sounded an awful lot like villain, I chose Strife because I rolled a scrapper and it seemed appropriate.


 

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The name? It was very late and I was working on the long background history of a story, nothing even related to the current events, just some myth that'd be involved later. I needed a name that had 'dark' qualities to it, but Drak sounded too vampiric and too short, so I started sounding out some endings with it and settled with Drakmarth. A later irony is that everyone ingame, friends and randoms, seems to call me Drak and its become a nickname for the character himself.

When I got City of Heroes & Villains a few years ago, I decided it'd be fun to reuse the characters I'd already created and 'see' them, oddly enough the characters of the story's present fell to the wayside and the three historical characters, Drakmarth being the most prevalent - the Sun of my entire character universe.

And as such a massive force, my real name has no meaning on the Internet anymore, Drakmarth is the name I use from my PS3\360\PSP\DS to the Global account of another MMO, all because if its named Drakmarth, its gotta be me. Seriously even google agrees! (Inc. any references to Dingo Jett, a jokey name I used some places. But minus the youtube videos featuring DraK playing as Marth in Super Smash Bros.)

Anyway, moral of the story kids: Watch what you do late at night, one day you're coming up with a mythologic lesson of two brothers at odds and the destruction they reap in an effort to stop one another to relate to the present and the next thing you know the brothers are ripping up a digital city in some MMO and now spawned an army of tied in characters to fill your imaginative mind with stories and tales and woe.


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Calibre.

Only part of the full name: Brus Calibre, my main Space Master character from back in the 80s; the campaign run by my best friend. Yes, a TT game put out by Iron Crown.

He was a serious d---, space marine, psionic mercenary. To this day if I mention this character's name to my friend he starts having shivering fits. Yeah, I was THAT bad heh.

Been using it for years now. The other handle is 'Lambent', my main fire/fire/fire Blaster which I have had since mid-beta of this game.

Cal


 

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Have you always used the same one?
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There's a bit of a story behind Turgenev.

Back during my first foray in multiplayer gaming, I was a Descent II player (around 1994-96). We used a few online gaming BBSes back then, along with direct-dial hookups organized on Usenet, and ultimately Kali (an IPX emulator). My very first handle was "Virago", but I got tired after the first few matches with everyone confusing my name for "Virgo".

So, I toyed with a few more handles as I got myself up to speed. By the time Kali 1.2u rolled out, I wanted something straightforward and frankly meaner than nails. Well, I was fresh outta college back then, and I'd done some world literature that covered Ivan Turgenev, i.e., the father of Russian literary nihilism. And so, in 1995, I named myself... Nihilist, and joined the Wildcards (www.wildcards.org) for Descent II.

I ran with the WC for about 3-4 years, and had a blast. Kept the handle Nihilist for about 6 years for Descent, Freespace, Quake II, and a few other games I don't remember very clearly.

Around 2002, I picked up Jedi Knight II, and was looking for a new gaming crew. I'd burned some bridges with the WC (their "leader" when I'd left at the time was an utter spooge), and I was looking for a more adult-oriented experience. I shopped around a bit, but it was during a saber duel tournament that I rolled up vs a dude named Aoshi, who was with the IRON Brigade. Seemed very nice, so he gave me the recruitment pitch, and I joined.

I was still running with the tag "Nihilist" back then, but after 7-8 years of using it, I was tired of it. So I figured, "why not be the father of nihilism himself?" I applied under the name "Turgenev".

Took that name from JKII, to Sony's Planetside in 2003, where I wrote my first "Turg Fiction" short stories and novellas (my big one, "Dissection", was advertised by Sony on their website for a while). Except for the WC, "Turg" is how most people know me nowadays, both in gaming and in personal life. (Hell, even my fiancee calls me "Turg" on her blog.) Fast forward to 2009, and Turg fits like a deerskin glove.

I think this one's a keeper now.


 

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Hmm, you played JK2? Nice. Still think that one got saber combat the best. No fancy schmancy junk, just red, blue, yellow, and skill.

I think by the time me and my brother got into it, the online scene was already winding down. Your tenure probably didn't overlap with ours, although for some reason the name 'Aoshi' sounds familiar. I was never spectactularly good at it, though my brother was one of the better duelists for a while. (neither one of us could shoot to save our lives, though!) Was a really good game, even though I never did finish the single player part due to a serious overdose of endless pits (that kind of stuff makes me dizzy, even in video games ).


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Student, Gamer, Altaholic, and future Astronomer.

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This is just about the only place where I have managed to get just Basilisk as my handle, the other being my SG's forum. Usually, I go around as BasiliskXVIII.

So, why Basilisk? Well, I used to go by a different handle when I first started using it, but then back in my first year of University, all my friends got into playing Starcraft. I'm not sure why, but I was just getting bored of my usual handle so I decided to change. My best friend was using the name "Chimaera", so I decided to switch to something mythological to fit alongside him. I figured things like dragons would be out since they were too common, and I didn't want something too sissy like unicorns. I nearly ended up as Manticore (just as well I didn't- I wouldn't have been able to keep it here!), but then I remembered the Magic: The Gathering deck I had just recently completed and was having a lot of fun with. It featured basilisks a-plenty. Thicket Basilisks, Stone-Tongued Basilisks. All to take out scads of enemies with a few nasty critters. So, I went with Basilisk, appended XVIII, the roman numeral of my age at the time, and went to town.

It's lasted me through 4 e-mail addresses, Diablo 2, WoW, CoH, Starcraft, among many others, and I have no intention of letting it go.


My story arcs: #2370- Noah Reborn, #18672- The Clockwork War, #31490- Easy Money

Sartre once said, "Hell is other people." What does that make an MMO?

 

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I found some character concept art if anyone wants to see...



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