name help!!!

twistedCLOCKS · 12-03-2007, 01:57 AM

I have to write a sci-fi story from school and I can't think of a name for an evil group of creatures!!! HELP everything I've come up with sounds so crappy lol.

also I gotta think of a name for the good people hummm.

thankyou

Jack · 12-03-2007, 02:07 AM

Evil? Call them Coldplayers?

The good guys can be called Jacks.

General Qwerty Waluigi · 12-03-2007, 02:20 AM

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Space Cadet · 12-03-2007, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by twistedCLOCKS;2016815
I have to write a sci-fi story from school and I can't think of a name for an evil group of creatures!!! HELP everything I've come up with sounds so crappy lol.

also I gotta think of a name for the good people hummm.

thankyou

Good scifi names usually have a bit of history to them...

For instance, what sort of things would the good guys say about them, and how might that have become a name? Sometimes descriptive names can be good.

On the other hand, what sort of things do they think about themselves? If they have their own language, what sort of sounds would it have, and why? What would they want to call themselves? If they called themselves the head-splitters, and they used alot of very gutteral sounds in their language, how would head splitters be translated? how would that name be shortened?

Maybe the names have something to do with where they come from? Just as an example, I heard Greenland got it's name, because the people who named it didn't want settlers to think that it was too cold there. And that's all the name is- green and land. Sometimes simple things like that can be effective.

I might be able to give you more specific ideas if i knew more about the people, but I hope that helps.

Yes, I'm a geek. So what.

12-03-2007, 01:57 AM	#1
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12-03-2007, 02:07 AM	#2
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Space Cadet You have been warned. Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,738 My Mood: Location: Nova Scotia Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by twistedCLOCKS;2016815 I have to write a sci-fi story from school and I can't think of a name for an evil group of creatures!!! HELP everything I've come up with sounds so crappy lol. also I gotta think of a name for the good people hummm. thankyou Good scifi names usually have a bit of history to them... For instance, what sort of things would the good guys say about them, and how might that have become a name? Sometimes descriptive names can be good. On the other hand, what sort of things do they think about themselves? If they have their own language, what sort of sounds would it have, and why? What would they want to call themselves? If they called themselves the head-splitters, and they used alot of very gutteral sounds in their language, how would head splitters be translated? how would that name be shortened? Maybe the names have something to do with where they come from? Just as an example, I heard Greenland got it's name, because the people who named it didn't want settlers to think that it was too cold there. And that's all the name is- green and land. Sometimes simple things like that can be effective. I might be able to give you more specific ideas if i knew more about the people, but I hope that helps. Yes, I'm a geek. So what. __________________ Spoiler http://img-fan.theonering.net/middle...trolls_als.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WmxwgW2J0 "Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone; For many a year he had gnawed it near, For meat was hard to come by. Done by! Gum by! In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone, And meat was hard to come by. Up came Tom with his big boots on. Said he to Troll: 'Pray, what is yon? For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim, As should be a-lyin' in graveyard. Caveyard! Paveyard! This many a year has Tim been gone, And I thought he were lyin' in graveyard.' 'My lad,' said Troll, 'this bone I stole. But what be bones that lie in a hole? Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead, Afore I found his shinbone. Tinbone! Thinbone! He can spare a share for a poor old troll, For he don't need his shinbone.' Said Tom: 'I don't see why the likes o' thee Without axin' leave should go makin' free With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin; So hand the old bone over! Rover! Trover! Though dead he be, it belongs to he; So hand the old bone over!' 'For a couple o' pins,' says Troll, and grins, 'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins. A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet! I'll try my teeth on thee now. Hee now! See now! I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins; I've a mind to dine on thee now.' But just as he thought his dinner was caught, He found his hands had hold of naught. Before he could mind, Tom slipped behind And gave him the boot to larn him. Warn him! Darn him! A bump o' the boot on the seat, Tom thought, Would be the way to larn him. But harder than stone is the flesh and bone Of a troll that sits in the hills alone. As well set your boot to the mountain's root, For the seat of a troll don't feel it. Peel it! Heal it! Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan, And he knew his toes could feel it. Tom's leg is game, since home he came, And his bootless foot is lasting lame; But Troll don't care, and he's still there With the bone he boned from its owner. Doner! Boner! Troll's old seat is still the same, And the bone he boned from its owner!" Albums of the Year 2011 - Vote Here!

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