My turn...pick me...pick me...
Well, Slayton, where did that come from you ask? Well Slayton is the first name in the persona that is Slayton V. Price. The name first appeared in one of my many stories in which he was the main character. After the first and second and third stories were done beating the poor man, I transferred him to a slightly more real setting as my character for a D20 Modern campaign.(For those not familiar with it, D20 Mod is a modern version of D&D)
Later in his existence he was molded to fit a Shadow Run game (Another tabletop RPG). During that game the "V" was added. I made his complete name, and really finished him as a character. He was now Slayton Vincent Price, an ex-military, car driving hitman, who didn't like the hitman job, so he retired. Kind of lame I know, unless you read a couple of the stories, which I cant post here, so you cant. Sorry.
After Shadow Run, I let him sit, and sit, and sit, until Halo came around. I had used other names in other games, and wanted to change from the norm, so, one night, sitting at my computer on Timmies Iced Cap # 4 I think, I flipped to an old file that I was thinking of deleting, and it was the first story that had ever had Slayton in it. I read it, and decided to go and play Halo afterwards. Don't ask me why, I just did. Thats when I said to myself,"You know Self, that Slayton character is kind of cool. And you've really just forgotten about him. Your looking for a new name, use his. Resurrect him from the ashes of Limbo...Shed new light on his existence...Bring him back from..." Then Self said "OK I GET IT!!" And typed the name into the slot in the game. Its been there ever since.
Not that I'm as cool as the character was.
Sorry for the ramble. But it wouldn't feel right not trying to tell at least a little of the story about my names past.
Im going to hit the "Post" button now, and go away.
Bye
BFM_SlaytonBTW, the Spell Check seems to want to call me BFM_Salton.
