'Origin' of Your User Name

[Gospog]

Gospog?

A Gospog is a monster from the game TORG.

Specifically, it's a "plant zombie", grown from a corpse and a "gospog seed".

I use it often as it is rarely taken when I sign up for posting boards and the like.

 

[sellars]

Sellars is from the character from Tad Williams' Otherland books.

If you haven't read them, ask 'em for christmas they're great

 

[Ruined]

Time to chime in. I've always been a huge Nine Inch Nails fan, and back when I first got heavy into the internet, my favorite song was one called ' Ruiner '. And so I adopted that as email address, screen name, wherever. Sometimes going for Ruined was easier, since others obviously liked the group.

Got on this board, and wouldn't you know it, ruiner and ruined were both taken. So you get what we have here, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any better than you men, but some people you just can't reach...

 

[alsih2o]

That would be Al2O3, SiO2, H2O. What you have is aluminium, silicon, and water.

yes, if you think you, in your chemical superiority, are able to define what "clay" is.

since you are so bright, and obviously able to make choices for the rest of us i am sure you will notice that indeed YOU are wrong, and that ALL clay is Al2 O3, 2SiO2, 2H2O.

but because clays vary so much in their near infinite range over countless deposits most folks don't try to be as dogmatic as you.

remind to invite you to my next party, you seem like someone who would be loads of fun to have around, after all, there is nothing like someone who cannat tolerate a little simplification for simplifications sake.

see agbak, clay varies, and while you seem to think you have enuf information to criticize what i have written you might have revealed, with a modicum of research, that while these variances can carreen all around the geochemical map (Kaolinite (Al2Si2O5(OH)4) to Montmorillonite (Na0.33Al1.67Mg0.33Si4O10OH2H2O) ) almost every geochemist and every potter i have ever met use the simplified alsih2o rather than go into a lengthy description of a material that will surely vary if you get a sample 6 inches over from the first sample. (being as the wife is a geologist and i am a potter i have spoken with a few people on this)

but i am sure you will still feel quite fine over your level of nitpickyness without ever approaching any of this.

btw, if you ever do find that mythologically pure sample let me know. a lot of folks i know would be interested in seeing it

 

[Plane Sailing]

It might seem a little complicated, but bear with me for a moment...

There is an fairly common expression, to denote the ease of an activity. Something is considered "plain sailing".

The derivation of this expression piqued my interest - it comes from the days when it was possible to create reliable flat marine navigation maps. All of a sudden it was possible to plot a course on a flat map which find you ended up in the right place. Sailing became easy when your navigation map was a flat plane instead of the surface of a sphere...

So the original expression for a simple activity was "plane sailing".

Now in D&D I've always been interested in the idea of different planes of existence, and they have featured heavily in all the games I run (from long before planescape, i might add!). So the vaguely D&D/magical twist inherent in the original source of a modern day expression appealed to me.

If avatars get switched on again, you will see mine as a small sailing ship navigating through the planes...

Cheers

 

[VorpalBunny]

"Vorpal Bunnies" are what my old gaming group used to call hoops back in our 1st ed. Gamma World days. I always kinda liked the name.

 

[Airwolf]

Mine came from a big black helicopter that used to fly in the late 80's.

 

[Tsyr]

Just to expand on Tsyr a bit, since I didn't post much detail compared to most people...

Tsyr was one of my earliest characters, like I said. I honestly don't remember exactly what system Tsyr was first for...

Tsyr's full name, normaly, is Tsyr Soulmoon. His first incarnation was an elf... which makes me suspect it was DnD, though I won't swear to that.

Occasionaly, I use Tsyr_Soulmoon together, sometimes I use just Soulmoon (On IRC, for example), and ocasionaly I use "Reitsuki", a Japanese varient on Soulmoon. Use that one mostly for online games, but not always.

Tsyr is more a concept and personality than a specific character... He has been different classes in different systems. The name doesn't even survive intact a lot of times; sometimes it just doesn't fit, but I always try to keep some aspect if the name. Generaly fairly relaxed, enjoys life... Wise enough when he cares to be, but doesn't seem that way most of the time because... well... he's too busy enjoying life. Enjoys books, maps, and knowledge-seeking in general, though, in his more serious moments. There is always something more for Tsyr to learn, and he always wants to learn it. Not very charismatic, mostly because he doesn't care enough to work on people skills, but not a bad guy, once you get to know him. Tsyr is always the eldest of three children, with a brother only a couple years younger, and a sister much younger. His sister is known to die quite often as a character plot point. In his various incarnations where his sister died, he typicly has a dark side to him... One of those people who are nice enough, but you can push to far, and then they get scary.

Tsyr has a natural aptitude for magic (If magic exists in the setting; if not, he is generaly a talented musician of some form), but prefers physical skills over mystical ones. A sword in hand, a gun on his hip, whatever the case, it suits him. Despite that, he always has a fairly spiritual side... It just doesn't always extend to magic. In game terms, he's normaly a hybrid class, in a class-based system... Ranger-ish normaly, but I've gone other directions on occasion. Elven, if possible, but I try to do the best I can when elf isn't an option...

A list of some of the existing Tsyr's that I still play today:

Tsyr Soulmoon, Elven Ranger, exists in any form of DnD you care to imagine.

Tsyr Soulmoon, Elven Ranger, also exists in Dark Age of Camelot. And Everquest, for that matter.

Eric "Tsyr" Honda is an elven decker (Decended from Japanese parents, took Eric as a name when he left Japan) with a touch of magic ability (Tsyr is his hacker alias), in Shadowrun

Reitsuki is a character I play in Anarchy Online, one of the tall grey guys (can't remember the name), Adventurer class.

Tes'Iru Reitsuki is a Sho blademaster/spell sword type character in Anarchy Online 1 and 2.

Just some of the more prominent ones that still exist.

 

[incognito]

Back when the internet was text only (gasp!) and caht rooms were considered the best thing since sliced bread, theer was a large contingent of people who used misrepresentive nicknames (like Someone who is 5'4" calling themselves "VeryBigBoy or the like').

There 'regualrs' in the chat rooms used to give these chatters a hard time. Enter me, who jumped into the discussion mid-rant, and explained we are all really incognito while online.

I thought I was being so clever and insightful at the time. They immediately went and told me to f*#k myself...

...but the 'incognito' part stuck in my head. ANd I feel liek it's better than 'DarthMaul69' (my second choice)

 

[bwgwl]

Don't feel too bad, Smith named several characters after his cats. Of course, those characters were themselves cats (or cat derived)...so I suppose, really, you'd have to use the name of someone having an unrequited relationship with your cat to be doing something all that similar. (Hopefully that's not an option.)

heh. i had noticed that Smith uses a lot of cat imagery in his writings... like the "partners" in The Game of Rat and Dragon, the cat-girl C'mell, the Catland of Commander Suzdal, Mother Hitton's Littol Kittons... my kinda guy.