Wordslingin'

From the same people impulses that brought you Buckle Those Swashes and The Voice of Doom comes our latest series... Wordslingin'! Tonight I joined a Heavy Gear game that's been running for three years or so. One of their players is leaving due his wife's imminent childbirth, and I'm stepping in to take his place. So without further ado, I bring you a series of quotes from the jungles of the rebelling city of Basal...

( May 13, 2010 )

And that's it for our initial installment of Wordslingin'! Will the party single-handedly fight an entire nation's army? Will Maia and Kain ever trust each other? Come back in a few weeks and find out!

Looking for some Jacks...

As some of you know, the name "Spring Heeled Jack" recently came up in my D&D game. This got me thinking about Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, in which the main antagonists are called "The Jacks of All Trades." Among the named characters in the book are:

- Jack Frost
(a.k.a. the man Jack)
- Jack Dandy
- Jack Ketch
- Jack Tar
- Jack Nimble

So I was wondering... how many legendary, folkloric, or generic "Jack" names are there? I've got some behind the cut, but I bet all you smart people on my friends' list know more. So... what say you? Wanna help me compile a list?

( More Jacks )

I'm sure I'm missing some obvious ones. Who's got more?