Originally posted by selunatic2397:
One of my favorite npc's was an alien girl in my very early games. The heroes had a far trader and someone decided that they needed a ship's boy to do all the scut work.
The ex-marine delegated came back with a young girl from a refuge camp. He claimed that no boy would volunteer so he found a ship's girl instead. Her name was Tabitha Katrina.
Eventually they needed her last name so in true hero fashion they forged up some adoption papers. Herein lay the problem...everyone decided to adopt her!
They decided to go by their salaries as a factor of rank and just keep adding to her last name.
Banchek [captain and pilot ], hault Jamison [a baron who was the engineer ], Rourke [ a player with an unhealthy fascination with Fantasy Island...he even had a little robot named Tatoo {the little robot from that old Dragon magazine article about "Skitterbuggers" }]
So, by the end, this little 4 foot 10 and 75 pound alien girl had a name bigger than she was...Tabitha Katrina Banachek hault Jamison-Rourke.
I still use her in my campaigns...I ran her through the Imperial Navy and let my players run in to her occasionally.