» Wed May 05, 2010 1:35 pm
Velvet (short for Velvet Edge).
Why? Long story.
The first MMORPG I ever played (late '90s) was Subspace. It was a 2D space arena shooter. Very low-tech, but a blast to play.
At the time, I was really in to the band "The Thrill Kill Kult", so I took the name "Kill Kult" for my account.
My nephew (about 15 yrs old at the time) would come spend the weekends with me, and play the game on my account. It came to be a kind of joking matter with our buddies on the servers that more than one person used the "Kill Kult" account ("Are you guys REALLY a kult?" (tongue-in-cheek)).
Anyways, to clear the confusion, I created a new account, and named it "Velvet Edge", which was my favorite TKK song at the time.
After the Subspace "craze" ended, and Virgin took their servers down, Josh and I kept our handles for the rest of the time that we played any MMORPGs. He was "Kill Kult", and I was "Velvet Edge".
The song "The Velvet Edge" begins with a couple lines of spoken dialog...
"You're wasting your time trying to help those who cannot be saved."
"Have you completely forgotten your true mission?"
"You are under a spell which has made you forget everything..."
I still really dig that song...