Character names from popular music

[gamecat]

Just generating some name possibilities from my WinAmp playlist:

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Endymion
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Masters of Hardcore is sooo freaking awesome.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Kyuss (from Kyuss...)

But Kyuss was a necromancer in Greyhawk. So thats kinda cheating.

As for me, I had an NPC assassin named Cortez, which nobody got (Cortez The Killer by Neil Young). I also once featured two daughters of house Amoc who were uber-energons and embodied Positive and Negative. Amoc = inverse of Coma, the two NPCs being derived from Coma White and Coma Black, two Marilyn Manson songs. I've also had NPCs named Jahya, Choralone, and The Serphant (all Skinny Puppy).

My character on City of Heroes was Ruby Soho, I dunno if that counts.

 

[Jack of Shadows]

I've had severel,

Fhaust Lothlorien - Half-Elf Bard
(Lothlorien - Loreena McKennit) *before I knew it was a place in LotR

November Rain - Russian weather witch for a Champions game
(November Rain - Guns and Roses)

Cartouche - Lich BBEG I'm trying to wrap an adventure around
(Cartouche - Blackmore's Night)

The Egg Man, his Egg Men, and the Walrus - Villians for Mutants and Masterminds
"I am the Egg Man! These are the Egg Men! He is the Walrus! Goo Goo Ga Jube! <Sound of lots of automatic gunfire>"
(I Am The Walrus - The Beatles)

I've probably a dozen more but those are the ones that come to mind.

Jack.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Whachu talkin' bout, main? El Paso is only 4:40 - I get longer songs with my breakfast cereal. Unless you're adding the 4:12 for the sequel song, "El Paso City"? In which case that's still only 8:52 - shorter than Stairway, or almost anything Meat Loaf ever had a hit with, but respectable.

From out of nowhere, Felina has found me
Kissing my check as she kneels by my side
Craddled by two loving arms that I die for
One little kiss and Fel-in-a, goodbye

I do love that song. And its amazing how many people who claim not to like country know that one and "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash, and will sing along.

Only you, Torm... only you.

Out of that, I'll go for Meatloaf. He writes some really kewl stuff!

 

[Demmero]

Two serving girls in one of my old inns were Carlotta and Rosie (sorta sounds like "Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC).

 

[Imperialus]

I once had the players on a pirate ship named The Queen Anne's Revenge.

You can't see the demons
Till the demons come calling for you
You're deaf to them screaming
Till they're standing right behind you
Blind to flames glowing
Till thy're growing all around you
Numb to fangs gripping
Until they're ripping into you

You're miles from safe harbor
Run, run, run, run, run away
The fire has reached starboard

[Chorus]
On the Queen Anne's Revenge
Skull and bones and a serpent's head
Are dancing with the madmen
On the Queen Anne's Revenge
Have a gargle with your demons and me

 

[Torm]

Apparently Felina was the original mexican song that inspired El Paso (and thus El Paso city) its quite obscure and every time I try to google I get El PAso hits!

You mean this?:

FELEENA (From El Paso)
Marty Robbins

Out in New Mexico, many long years ago
There in a shack on the desert, one night in a storm

Amid streaks of lightnin' and loud desert thunder, to a young Mexican couple, a baby was born;

Just as the baby cried, thunder and lightnin' die, moon gave it's light to the world and the stars did the same

Mother and Father, both proud of the daughter, that heaven had sent them, Felina was this baby's name.

When she was seventeen, bothered by crazy dreams
She ran away from the shack and left them to roam
Father and Mother, both asked one another
What made her run away, what made Felina leave home;

Tired of the desert nights, fartherly grieved to strife
She ran away late one night in the moon's golden gleam
She didn't know where she'd go, but she'd get there
And she would find happiness, if she would follow her dream.

After she ran away, she went to Sante Fe
And in the year that she stayed there, she learned about life
In just a little while, she learned that with a smile
She could have pretty clothes, she could be any man's wife;

Rich men romanced her, they dined and they danced her
She understood men and she treated them all just the same
A form that was fine and rare, dark shining glossy hair
Lovely to look at Feleena was this woman's name.

Restless in Sante Fe, she had to get away
To any town where the lights had a much brighter glow
One cowboy mentioned the town of El Paso
They never stopped dancin' and money like whiskey did flow;

She bought a one-way, a ticket from Sante Fe
Three days and nights on a stage with a rest now and then
She didn't mind that, she knew she would find that
Her new life would be more exciting than where she had been.

The stage made it's last stop, up there on the mountain top
To let her see all of the lights at the foot of the hill
Her world was brighter and deep down inside her
An uncontrolled beating, her young heart just wouldn't be still;

She got a hotel, a room at the Lily Belle
Quickly she changed to a form-fitting black satin dress
Ev'ry man stopped to stare, at this form fine and rare
Even the women remarked of the charm she possessed.

Dancin' and laughter, was what she was after
And Rosa's Cantina had lights, with love in the gleam
That's what she hunted and that's what she wanted
Rosa's was one place, a nice girl would never be seen;

It was the same way, it was back in Sante Fe
Men would make fools of themselves at the thought of romance
Rosa took heed of, the place was in need of
This kind of excitement, so she paid Feleena to dance.

A year passed and maybe more and then through the swingin' doors
Came a young cowboy so tall and so handsomely dressed
This one was new in town, hadn't been seen around
He was so different, he wasn't like all of the rest;

Felina danced close to him, then threw a rose to him
Quickly he walked to her table and there he sat down
And in a day or so, wherever folks would go
They'd see this young cowboy, showin' Felina the town.

Six weeks he went with her, each minute spent with her
But he was insanely jealous of glances she'd give
Inside he was a-hurtin', from all of her flirtin'
That was her nature and that was the way that she lived;

She flirted one night, it started a gun-fight
And after the smoke cleared away, on the floor lay a man
Felina's young lover, had shot down another
And he had to leave there, so out through the back door he ran.

The next day at five o'clock, she heard a rifle shot
Quickly she ran to the door, that was facin' the pass
She saw her cowboy, her wild-ridin' cowboy
Low in the saddle, her cowboy was ridin' in fast;

She ran to meet him, to kiss and to greet him
He saw her and motioned her back, with a wave of his hand
Bullets were flyin', Felina was cryin'
As she saw him fall from the saddle and into the sand.

Felina knelt near him, to hold and to hear him
When she felt the warm blood that flowed from the wound in his side
He raised to kiss her and she heard him whisper
'Never forget me - Felina it's over, goodbye.'

Quickly she grabbed for, the six-gun that he wore
And screamin' in anger and placin' the gun to her breast
Bury us both deep and maybe we'll find peace
And pullin' the trigger, she fell 'cross the dead cowboy's chest.

Out in El Paso, whenever the wind blows
If you listen closely at night, you'll hear in the wind
A woman is cryin', it's not the wind sighin'
Old timer's tell you, Felina is callin' for him;
You'll hear them talkin' and you'll hear them walkin'
You'll hear them laugh and you'll look, but there's no one around
Don't be alarmed - there is really no harm there
It's only the young cowboy, showin' Felina the town

I have to admit, I had never heard this one before. It never charted for Robbins. It's kinda neat to hear what Felina did right after the events in the other song I've heard for so long - the picture sure doesn't get any prettier, though!

It helps if you search "feleena" instead of "felina." For some reason, it was spelled different in the name of this song. And you're right - its pretty long. But still only 8:18.

 

[Torm]

Only you, Torm... only you.

Out of that, I'll go for Meatloaf. He writes some really kewl stuff!

No, but only I would replace "kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side" with "smoke from her gun that she lays by my side," changing what she's doing to a last moment of mercy for the psychopathic stalker that she had no choice but to eliminate.

And did you know his name really is Meat Loaf? First name: Meat, Last Name: Loaf. He had it legally changed. Weird - but not a symbol, so okay, I guess.

 

[DarkSoldier]

I drew on Blue Öyster Cult for names for several Ravenloft characters.

The Divine Wind was Joseph Bouchard, priest of Saint Cecilia, former ally of the Flaming Telepaths against the Great Sun Jester.

Eric Bloom, the son of Buck and Dharma Bloom, is a character whose sheet I've lost.

I also made the Dragon Lady the dark lord of a domain with thematic influence from Harvest Moon.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Except Meat Loaf didn't write most of his good stuff. It was written by Jim Steinman, who also wrote "Holding Out for a Hero" for Bonnie Tyler and some other stuff -- songs from the movie "Streets of Fire." He even did a solo album, IIRC.

Shakira is the name of my characters' stripper ex-girlfriend in the Traveller PbP game I'm involved in. The story hour is linked in my sig. Her brother, a friend of my character and former partner in crime, is named Babaji, from the song by Supertramp.