What to name a Luxury Submarine?

[Optimator]

In the campaign I'm DMing I gave access to (once they fix it up) what is essentially a luxury mage tower-submarine, as part of the treasure they're getting for the campaign. I just can't think of a good name for it though, and I think it should have a good one, or none at all.

Backstory of the vessel: It once belonged to a powerful (level 25ish? 30 tops) wizard of an ancient magi (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Precursors) race that once lived in floating continents a la Chrono Trigger. It used to be able to fly and swim but now enough magic power has leaked from it that is can only swim and surface. Consider it like a ~150 foot super yacht, only it's circular, like a UFO or Chemosphere house, (http://www.google.com/search?q=Chemosphere&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=22IqTvXlNuPniALloeWvAg&ved=0CEwQsAQ) 100 foot diameter, 3 floors, 5 staterooms and a master, arcane library, etc. Continent crashed after a particularly cataclysmic war and the flying house went down with it, only to be found 10,000 years later.

So, any good ideas, playground? Ripping off other names is fine (and encouraged!) but please let me know what the name is from if you can. You know, juuuust in case I get called on it :smallwink:

[ko_sct]

I'm gonna go whit originality here and say: The nautilus !

Purely from my imagination !

OK its from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from Jules Verne

[Gamer Girl]

You could call it The Yellow Submarine

Or The Enterprise

Or Voyager

Or Seaquest

Or The Oddessy

Or The Millennium Turtle

[herrhauptmann]

"The Love Commander."



Thank you Lando Calrissian :D

[Tvtyrant]

Krakens Delight
Captains in Flight
With Fear Chests are Tight
Struggling Towards the Light

[Hiro Protagonest]

"She's One Of Ours!"

For if the ship ever sees combat action. :smallamused:

[Curmudgeon]

The Oyster

It's a marine enclosure for precious cargo.

[NNescio]

Davy Jones' Locker.

[gorfnab]

"The Love Commander."
Thank you Lando Calrissian :D
On that note, Talon Karde named one of his luxury yachts the Uwana Buyer.

[Asheram]

I really should point to The Culture novels by Iain M Banks in which Very powerful (sentient) spacecraft names themselves.

For example,
*No More Mr Nice Guy
*Proft Margin
*Trade Surplus
*So Much For Subtlety
*Youthful Indiscretion
*It's Character Forming
*No Fixed Abode
*Wisdom Like Silence
*Just Passing Through
*Excuses And Accusations
*You'll Thank Me Later
*Conventional Wisdom
*Now Look What You've Made Me Do
*Don't Try This At Home
*Now We Try It My Way

[Flame of Anor]

On that note, Talon Karde named one of his luxury yachts the Uwana Buyer.

Oh, yeah! Wasn't that the one he was in when he picked up Mara Jade on that backwater planet where the locals were hunting sentient life-forms or farming components for explosives or something?

[excruciarch]

"Tin can" for teh lulz. =)

[Radar]

Depending on the wizard's personality, he might use the Ob'enn method of naming ships - Cloak of Untrammeled Dignity would be great (Sword of Inevitable Justice might be as well).

Schlock Mercenary is a good source of ship names in general: Post-Dated Check Loan, Serial Peacemaker (brilliant for an adventurer), Predictably Damaged, Pretentious Drivel.

[Inferno]

hmm, luxury sub?
gilded dragon
gilded lady

[Optimator]

Excellent suggestions, everyone. Keep 'em coming!

[Vandicus]

The Errant Venture

[Ravens_cry]

The Pearl
The Golden Clam
The Fifty Fathoms Down Club
The Sinkable

[NNescio]

Depending on the wizard's personality, he might use the Ob'enn method of naming ships - Cloak of Untrammeled Dignity would be great (Sword of Inevitable Justice might be as well).

Schlock Mercenary is a good source of ship names in general: Post-Dated Check Loan, Serial Peacemaker (brilliant for an adventurer), Predictably Damaged, Pretentious Drivel.

On a related note, Polysyllabic Designation.

[Thrice Dead Cat]

"Dead weight" rings a bell in my ear, especially for something that doesn't look like it should float but does so anyhow.

"It's magic! I ain't have to explain carp!" could work, too, even if it is a bit wordy.:smalltongue: Actually, scratch that: just name the thing "Carp." Paint it a good red-orange color just to drive that idea home.:smallbiggrin:

[Flickerdart]

Titanic. She's unsinkable!

[herrhauptmann]

On that note, Talon Karde named one of his luxury yachts the Uwana Buyer.
There's also the Starry Ice.

Oh, yeah! Wasn't that the one he was in when he picked up Mara Jade on that backwater planet where the locals were hunting sentient life-forms or farming components for explosives or something?
Pretty sure, it's been years since I read that story.

"The Longshot"

[HalfDragonCube]

The Deathtrap

Or maybe:

I prepared explosive runes this morning.

[Ravens_cry]

"It's magic! I ain't have to explain carp!" could work, too, even if it is a bit wordy.:smalltongue: Actually, scratch that: just name the thing "Carp." Paint it a good red-orange color just to drive that idea home.:smallbiggrin:
How koi of you.:smallamused:

[Ksheep]

Just going to name a few ship names from the Aubrey Maturin series, by Patrick O'Brian

Sophie
Polychrest
Lively
Surprise
Boadicea
Raisonable
Leopard
Ariel
Worcester
Niobe
Diane
Nutmeg of Consolation
Bellona
Pomone
Ringle

[Luckmann]

Yggdrasil. Clearly.

We all know that you'll permit it to go through sand sooner or later and let it fly eventually.

:smallbiggrin:

[Squiggles]

The Unflushable

[Bhaakon]

Apparatus of Kwalish Redux

[Vangor]

Since the craft used to be able to fly and swim:

The Submarigible

[Amphetryon]

Yellow, obviously.

[Ksheep]

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
GSS Daring
GSS Audacity
GSS Suicidal Insanity

[Hiro Protagonest]

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
GSS Daring
GSS Audacity
GSS Suicidal Insanity

GSS Insane Daring Suicidal Audacity! :smallbiggrin:

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Whatever you end up naming it, you must paint the thing yellow...

[OracleofWuffing]

Sub-C

Or simply just "Red Herring."

[Hiro Protagonest]

Or simply just "Red Herring."

That falls under the category of "She's One Of Ours".

[NNescio]

Whatever you end up naming it, you must paint the thing yellow...


Sub-C

Or simply just "Red Herring."

Paint it yellow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_%28album%29) and call it the Red Herring!

[HalfDragonCube]

Paint it yellow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_%28album%29) and call it the Red Herring!

Reading through those posts, I thought of the exact same thing... 'Tis an idea-ninja! Run for the hills!

Anyway, Red Herring is an awesome name for a submarine.

[BlueInc]

Pride of Atlanta

[Amphetryon]

Pride of Atlanta

Or, if you prefer, the Prid.

[deuxhero]

A sea fairing vessel that is losing power gradually and none of the party can fix?


"A Deathtrap".

[Optimator]

Red Herring is really starting to grow on me...

I think I want to give it some fantastical, ethereal, unearthly name and have it's translation be Red Herring.

[herrhauptmann]

Red Herring is really starting to grow on me...

I think I want to give it some fantastical, ethereal, unearthly name and have it's translation be Red Herring.

Translate to greek, then to italian, and finally to latin.
Granted, that'll give a different answer than if you just go from English to Latin, but that'd be part of the unearthliness.

[NNescio]

Red Herring is really starting to grow on me...

I think I want to give it some fantastical, ethereal, unearthly name and have it's translation be Red Herring.

"Redewendung"
"Félrevezető Nyom"
"Ignoratio Elenchi" (Or more literally: "Chalcis Rubea")
"Kurenai no Nishin"
"Κόκκινη Ρέγγα" ("Kókkini Rénga")

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Red Herring is really starting to grow on me...

I think I want to give it some fantastical, ethereal, unearthly name and have it's translation be Red Herring.

How about tolkein elvish?

The Caran'lim (literally translated as 'red fish')

[mint]

Pelorus!
Ancient fantasy wizards and modern day oligarchs are almost the same thing.

[Optimator]

Some good names here (http://www.yachtforums.com/features/index.php?f=142) to be poached.


How about tolkein elvish?

The Caran'lim (literally translated as 'red fish')
I like it!

[Fax Celestis]

When in doubt, borrow from Schlock Mercenary and call it the Serial Peacemaker.

Then you can say you're going to"pour some Serial Peacemaker into a big bowl of no-problem. (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-09-16)'"

[koscum]

"She's One Of Ours!"

For if the ship ever sees combat action. :smallamused:

Yeah... the Bard in my group keeps insisting that our ship's name is "She's One of Ours, Captain!" even though it has "SRG Legacy" written on her side and "Her Serenity's Grace" on the crest (hint: we started in Sigil).

On topic: "This ship submarine belongs to a PC group! Hands/paws/tentacles off or we'll find out just how much exp you're worth the hard way!"

[Asheram]

Well.. How about not naming it at all?
This is basicly a flying castle and I doubt there ever was more than one of them out of there. He'd probably just refer to it as "my ship" or "my house" and if people asked where to deliver a thing, he'd say. "You'll know when you see it."

Alternatively, it could be like naming his house and probably has a big arcane mark on the hull to show you who owns it.

[Seffbasilisk]

Skipstone.

[Dragonsoul]

"Retreat"
"What?"
"Up Yours Captain"
"(Name of King)'s Sub"

....and listen as they try to order an attack on you.

[Socratov]

I second the vote for yellow submarine, also make sure you've got 4 bards on board. ! will have perform(percussion), 2 will have perform(lyre), and 1 will have perform(bass lyre), 1 of the lyre players will have leadership with a fat asian cohort. :smallamused: