====== J-9 ======

===== Recruitment =====

I'm also a GAMES-related recruit--a good few years after writing for the magazine and playtesting 
games in the offices on Tuesday nights, I joined up, but couldn't make any sense out of the Enigma, 
and so let my subscription lapse. I went to Montreal, though, and had a fine old time. At the 
ChicagoCon, I could stay away no further, and my fiancee and I both rejoined.  And so: 

[[Manx]] & [[jotheloi|Jo The]] & [[Coach]] & [[games|G,Ames]] & [[Chainsaw]] & [[317537]] & [[En]] &      [[IRBS]] ---> [[Storyteller]] ---> J-9.

[[Manx]] and [[games|G,Ames]] and [[317537]] (this last of whom I think is no longer a member) were
editors at the magazine. [[Chainsaw]], [[jotheloi|Jo The]], and myself were contributors. (This is 
all before the mag moved from NYC to Pennsylvania; I still contribute to the mag, but less 
frequently.) The others were assorted Friends of Games, who could be relied upon to show up at 
the offices on a moment's notice to play Wizard or The Great Dalmuti or whatever was hot at the 
time.

Whether all these people knew each other from the NPL or knew each other BEFORE the NPL, I don't 
know. But the whole group's enthusiasm, as a whole, definitely grabbed me and convinced me to join, 
and then rejoin.

Source: npl-folk email from [[Storyteller]].

//First Issue//: Jul 1996

===== Recruits =====

None.


===== Nom =====

J-9 seems a pretty obvious choice for a woman named Janinne, but that nom took its sweet 
time making itself clear. Janinne needed a nom at all because she was to attend the con
in Chicago with her beau, [[Storyteller]], and so she almost wound up as... Listener. Two 
main problems were, (a) as an antonym for [[Storyteller]], it was lame, and (b) people might 
take her up on her nom. Other would-be noms, too stupid to mention, were also thought of and 
discarded. J-9 then presented itself. Besides the obvious, J-9 can be looked upon as a map 
coordinate, and J-9 certainly likes maps. This dual meaning made J-9 the clear choice. 

Source: email from [[Storyteller]].

==== Combinoms ====

No data.

===== Offices =====

No data.