MrUnderhill89
Posts: 123
12/20/2013
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Here's a silly and most likely meaningless question,
When I first signed up for Fallen London a year-and-a-half ago, I couldn't sign up as "MrUnderhill" (without the 89) because the name was already taken. Out of curiosity, I decided to check out the profile of this other "MrUnderhill," and it seems the poor chap never made it out of New Newgate.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/MrUnderhill
Any idea who this doppelganger might be?
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MrUnderhill89 - The Master Under the Hill
MrUnderhill77 - Doomed Northwards
I'll be happy to accept most social invites, but please no Affluent Photographer requests.
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babelfishwars
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Posts: 1152
12/21/2013
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Someone who signed up and never played. Which means they won't have been on the forums, and thus we won't know them. (Probably. There are no certainties in life. Except the things which are certain.)
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Urthdigger
Posts: 939
12/21/2013
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That's the problem with using popular names, such as an alias used in a widely read fantasy novel. Always the chance someone else might have it.
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Laluzi
Posts: 456
12/21/2013
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Yep. I had to go with the name Mercer because the name Alex Mercer was taken - and judging by Alex Mercer's profile, the person didn't play long. Ah well.
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Mercer - an enigmatic and brutal individual. Frightfully strong. Has even more frightful manners.
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KatarinaNavane
Posts: 462
12/21/2013
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That's the nice thing with KatarinaNavane, I'm the only one on the whole Internet. If there's already one there it means i made an account and forgot about it.
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My art page (much of which is dark, Victorian, and/or full of tentacles): http://www.facebook.com/demonkittydesigns
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dragonridingsorceress
Posts: 622
12/21/2013
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KatarinaNavane wrote:
That's the nice thing with KatarinaNavane, I'm the only one on the whole Internet. If there's already one there it means i made an account and forgot about it.
Ditto DragonRidingSorceress 
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DragonRidingSorceress is an Author of good standing. Mostly good standing. She's happy to accept any social action except Photographer and Loitering, but requests warnings before duping/poisoning/etc.
Seeker of Names is a... being with an obsession. They're willing to accept all invitations.
One who seeks to know all that is and may be. One who dances in the silence of the void. One whose fantasies make the reality come alive.
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OPG
Posts: 387
12/21/2013
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And overpoweredginger/OPG
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overpoweredginger, an irresistible, magnificent, midnight and sagacious gentleman.
A Fallen London Roleplay Community exists. Contrary to popular belief, Richard Nixon is not involved.
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Flower of December
Posts: 8
12/22/2013
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I've see n a couple Flowers of December before, but it's uncommon enough that I stand a better chance at claiming it than my actual name in any instance
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Urthdigger
Posts: 939
12/22/2013
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I've run across another Urthdigger only once. Due to some context I was able to find (very similar last name for character and such) I get the feeling he was copying me... for whatever reason.
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Xaphedo
Posts: 44
12/22/2013
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Xaphedo I found to be very mine
no-one else I saw using it anywhere.
He once was an elf who used to chine
and hunt and live and struggle and err
in a fantasy short story I far once wrote:
I quite liked his flowing sound of note.
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«He knows. Why of course, there's no other way. Unless...»
A comfortably unpredictable individual
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MrUnderhill89
Posts: 123
12/24/2013
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Urthdigger wrote:
That's the problem with using popular names, such as an alias used in a widely read fantasy novel. Always the chance someone else might have it.
True enough. Mostly I was wondering if there was some kind of soft embargo on names with "Mr" in front of them, so that nobody could impersonate or role-play a rogue Master. I'm sure it's much more reasonable that someone simply picked the name first, but with the Neath the way it is, you never know for sure. 
edited by MrUnderhill89 on 12/24/2013
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MrUnderhill89 - The Master Under the Hill
MrUnderhill77 - Doomed Northwards
I'll be happy to accept most social invites, but please no Affluent Photographer requests.
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Richard
Posts: 304
12/24/2013
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MrUnderhill89 wrote:
Mostly I was wondering if there was some kind of soft embargo on names with "Mr" in front of them, so that nobody could impersonate or role-play a rogue Master. Nah, I've got "Mr Puckeridge", and I think someone even had "Mr Wines" for a while before it got spotted. Any policing that's done is done reactively, I'm sure.
On a tangental note, I have a friend whose (real life) given name is completely made up. I'd better not post it here for privacy reasons, but when you hear it, you assume it's a conventional name you've just never heard of - yet in truth, she's the only one in the world. I'm insanely jealous.
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Playersideblog
Posts: 397
1/2/2014
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Maybe Mr. Underhill is the secret Master behind it all.
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Myke Harryson
Posts: 309
1/2/2014
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I've used Apollo Fireweaver for a while, but lately I've seen it cropping up on other sites, and had to get somewhat creative. MY only guess is that someone saw the blog I used to write for, and was trying to impersonate me. Even caught one of them when I got a somewhat irate message from some developers about not getting the review they were promised, regardless of the fact I had never heard of their game XD
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Apollo~Fireweaver
50,000 souls - 12/31/14
3,000,000 souls 10/25/16 - 100% of goal
Connection to Hell: 15
22 souls, Connection to Hell 611, 10,000,000 brass - 1/16/17
1/7/19 - The G.O.A.T. Heptagoat is born admist a storm of Engimas
1/31/19 - The G.O.A.T. is taught the Seven-Fold knock over a snifter of Cider after my voyage NORTH
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Loon
Posts: 379
1/3/2014
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Oh, yes, that Mr Wine was renamed Impostor, I believe.
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My main character Krawald can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Krawald and welcomes all social actions bar photographers.
My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers.
My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Amoury De Domremy
Posts: 34
1/25/2014
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This reminds me of a story I heard once, I think Bill Bryson may have told it, of a Post Office that had an oddly-addressed letter sitting in its' dead-letter box for more than a decade because they could not for the life of them work out who the recipient was intended to be. It had been written thusly:
HILL
JOHN
MASS
And after a good 15 years or more, someone finally worked out that it was meant for a certain Mr John Underhill, living in Andover, Massachusetts!
edited by Amoury De Domremy on 1/25/2014
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