I kinda like it when ppl call me by my EQ name...well EQers that is ;) (It would be odd if my husband took to calling me Gilly I suppose) I've met A LOT of EQers and almost all of them at some point or another have called me Gilly...they know me well by Ruth too but they call me Gilly anyway and as far as I'm concerned it's who I am to them. I AM the crazy silly bard they know in game...a shade darker but *shrug*
Anulien calls me Gilly all the time...he switches between Gilly, Gilae, Ruth, Ruthie, and sometimes he calls me a monkey but what are you gonna do. Vulash has called me Gilly on more then one occasion as well. Both of them I consider RL friends at this point but if they wanna call me by my game name I consider it a term of endearment...vocalization of a common interest...or some such nonsense.
Actually Meawean is the only of my "EQ friends" that has never called me Gilly...but that's because we met out of game before we ever met in game. And he calls me Skittles...so he obviously can't be counted :P
Your eq name
Do you respond to it? I remember one time I was talking to Ladase on the phone (he was helping me put this site up) and he kept calling me Mae. Very weird. Sometimes I'll run into an old eq friend I knew before I played Maelarya and when they call me Cait, it makes me chuckle. When I was in Union that's all anyone ever called me. Then to go from Cait to Mae but be recognized as both...I think I played eq for too long.
Take Vex for example. I know her as Venilae, Vexiphne, Veirna and Kat. =x
Miralyssa I know as Mira, Viamorte and John. He's forever Mira though to everyone.
Are you attached to your eq name? Did it in someway define who you are? With Cait and Mae, at first I played into the bitch exterior I portrayed in game into real life. Veb didnt like that. /snort Then as Mae on the rage board, I became this mother hen of sorts. Its funny, I think people remember me as being a bitch, but when people approach me, I'm that Angry Crayon girl or just sweet Mae.
I played eq for too long. :o
In eq2 I'll be Mae again, but not Maelarya. I'm going with Maelevolent Dys'Grace. Come on, how cool is that?!! I would prefer my friends (and you know who you are) would call me Roz, but Mae will do.
K, everyone else share!
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Gilae
21 years ago
Draegloth
21 years ago
When I first started playing, I used to call people I met through the game by their game names, but that's long since gone away...
Although, one time, me, graznoth, and a friend of ours were at a Circuit City. Our friend asked why graz was still playing, and graz said, "I'm graznoth. I'm motherfucking GRAZNOTH."
I nodded my head and our friend shook his.
/shrug
(What I have started doing is responding to people in emotes...)
Although, one time, me, graznoth, and a friend of ours were at a Circuit City. Our friend asked why graz was still playing, and graz said, "I'm graznoth. I'm motherfucking GRAZNOTH."
I nodded my head and our friend shook his.
/shrug
(What I have started doing is responding to people in emotes...)
Cobert
21 years ago
On a Toronto based Kid's (YTV) show there was this one segment (The Zone) where they would talk to a shoulders and up statue of Elvis. They did this by super imposing the one hosts mouth over the mouth of the statue. He essentialy acted like a spanish Elvis, with accent and everything. Kinda funny. They had his name something like "Elveeeezzzzzzzzzzz" probably because they couldn't be an Elvis due to copy right issues or something.
It was a good name when I was a level 15 newbie, but now after all those levels, aas, flags gear, it looks kinda lame.
It was a good name when I was a level 15 newbie, but now after all those levels, aas, flags gear, it looks kinda lame.
Divine
21 years ago
I refer to Graznoth as "uber-sk" to my EQ pals, hahaha. I haven't spoken with the lad in a while.
Draegloth
When I first started playing, I used to call people I met through the game by their game names, but that's long since gone away...
Although, one time, me, graznoth, and a friend of ours were at a Circuit City. Our friend asked why graz was still playing, and graz said, "I'm graznoth. I'm motherfucking GRAZNOTH."
I nodded my head and our friend shook his.
/shrug
(What I have started doing is responding to people in emotes...)
I refer to Graznoth as "uber-sk" to my EQ pals, hahaha. I haven't spoken with the lad in a while.
Majalita
21 years ago
Yup I respond to my name,. and sometimes even refer to my boyfriend and other friends by their eq names. :) Everyone knows me and refers to me as Maja for the most part. :)
zaura
21 years ago
I respond in game and irl to debbie, Zaura and Z. I am usually not as quick to respond to Kalliope unless it is written, because most people incorrectly pronounce it as Ka LIE oh pee, and it's Ka lee OH pee. Kalliope is my former mother-in-law's name, and is Greek, so I am not surprised that people Americanize it, but it still takes a few seconds to register in my mind that people are referring to me when they say it.
I used to be on staff for a writer's area on AOL called The Amazing Instant Novelist, where I was known as NOVL Earth, and off duty as Earthqueen, so I responded to "Earth" for a long, long time. I never really identified with "Queen" though, and still don't.
So bottom line, I will respond automatically to debbie, Zaura, Z, or Earth. Oh, and Mommy also , oops. I remember one day when my kids were being exceptionally difficult in a Walmart and some kid whined "MOMMY!!!" and I pretty much growled in response, "WHAT??" and turned around to see it was not my child and the kid's mother was staring daggers into my eyes, LOL. I shrugged and told her I was sorry, but coincidentally, my name was Mommy too.
I used to be on staff for a writer's area on AOL called The Amazing Instant Novelist, where I was known as NOVL Earth, and off duty as Earthqueen, so I responded to "Earth" for a long, long time. I never really identified with "Queen" though, and still don't.
So bottom line, I will respond automatically to debbie, Zaura, Z, or Earth. Oh, and Mommy also , oops. I remember one day when my kids were being exceptionally difficult in a Walmart and some kid whined "MOMMY!!!" and I pretty much growled in response, "WHAT??" and turned around to see it was not my child and the kid's mother was staring daggers into my eyes, LOL. I shrugged and told her I was sorry, but coincidentally, my name was Mommy too.
Rikr
21 years ago
LOL I take it she didn't see the humor in it? I swear my GF says she's changing her name from mommy to something else.
I let out a big /sigh everytime I'm at the store WITHOUT the kiddo, and see kids throw a fit. Its nice to know its not mine thats acting horrible for once. :)
zaura
turned around to see it was not my child and the kid's mother was staring daggers into my eyes, LOL. I shrugged and told her I was sorry, but coincidentally, my name was Mommy too.
LOL I take it she didn't see the humor in it? I swear my GF says she's changing her name from mommy to something else.
I let out a big /sigh everytime I'm at the store WITHOUT the kiddo, and see kids throw a fit. Its nice to know its not mine thats acting horrible for once. :)
Aziyade
21 years ago
I have RL friends that got to know me in EQ that occasionallly call me Buphie. I have RL friends who in game call me Dina. I have one RL friend who actually met me in RL first but started calling me by my first EQ shaman's nickname, Azi (Ozzy.) :? Pretty much the only name I will not answer to is Dinah (Die nah) I HATE that name. :razz