So, that's the reason behind having him go by MacCallister?
One reason. It is also his half-assed attempt at being "professional". When he's operating as a fixer, he uses that name. It's also his real last name, even.
When Jason decided to add him to the Jackpoint crew as well (Which was shortly after him showing up in Missions), we decided to stick with his runner handle, Bull, instead of switching to MacCallister because he'd shown up in Shadowrun as Bull on a number of occasions before.
And funny enough, as CanRay points out, Bull showed up in a Shadowrun book long before I (as a writer) ever did. I won a contest Mike Mulvihill ran on the ShadowRN Mailing List a zillion years ago, and myself and a handful of others got our characters/handles used in Target: UCAS. The others were Granite, Spike, Fro (Adam Jury), and I believe there was one other that I'm blanking on. Mike also created all our .sig lines. "The Best Ork Decker you Never Met" was actually a bit of a jab at me, as I had gotten to know Mike through email, and I had planned to attend a gaming convention and was going to meet up with Mike there, but had to cancel at the last minute. (Side note, a buddy of mine, Dave, did attend. And apparently sold me to Mike for a quarter.) After that several other writers who I knew continued to use Bull as a poster. I did end up on the freelance roster at FASA and did a bunch of playtesting, but my first actual published work wouldn't see print until after FASA closed down (Year of the Comet).
Anyway, we're way off topic here, so lets steer things back, shall we?
And Can Ray, wanna GM at gen Con?
