Yeah, FJ is a nerd like that.
And yeah, I was a little concerned with Man of Many Names appearance in my piece (I assume you're referring to the Maltese Falcon write up in Already Here). He's had a couple more "Casual" conversations... One of the problems I have writing Shadowtalk is that, simply put, I don;t "know" a LOT of the Shadowtalkers. Most of the time their personalities don't come through in Shadowtalk (outside of a handful of Jackpointers). There's like 60-odd members of Jackpoint, but only about 25% of them have had any kind of fleshing out at all. The rest are little more than names and, on occasion, "professions".
I had already tapped WInterhawk for part of the magic discussion, and I needed another character that could be a voice of authority. Jackpoint is a little limited, and I didn't want to bring in an outside voice, so I decided to have MoMN drop his "mystery act" for a bit and actually be part of the discussion for a change. Personally, while i don't mind the rare "cryptic message" (Hell, I do it myself, see my "Heh" above), I find them incredibly boring and tedious when done all the time. If that's all the character does, they lose a bit of resonance and meaning.
(I can also picture Fastjack sending MoMN a private message saying "Come on, Bob. We all know the Secret Mystic routine is crap. Will you just PARTICIPATE in the discussion for once? You're a smart guy, that's why I invited you in!")
Bull