Re: KB Contest Submissons
Gameplay :
Q : What is this UO lingo? I don't understand what people are saying!!
A : Here are a list of various and often used lingo words :
ACTIONS
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Camp - To remain in one spot, waiting for certain spawn
Capping - Getting the maximum of 700 skill points
Drain - Tactic to drain a monster of all of it's magical energy (mana) before attacking it hand to hand
Farm - To basically harvest a resouce, ie, visiting all the blacksmiths to buy ingots over and over again
Flag - Becoming grey, criminal - often intentionally
Gank - To team up on, be teamed up on or killed in an unfavorable way; also, to steal or have something stolen.
Guard whacked - Killed by a guard for committing a crime
Hit the stone - Dbl-click the faction stone or guildstone
House sitting - Waiting for a house that is "In danger of collapsing" to collapse
IDOC Camping - Staking out a house in the hopes it will decay and drop all items inside on the floor ready for taking.
In Lor - Use nightsight spell
Insta-log, instalog - Log out in a location, such as an inn or one's own house, where your character immediately disappears from the game.
Insta-Rez - Instantly Resurrect
Jacked - Ganked
Loot - Remove items from a corpse
Macro - Use an external program to perform repeated tasks in game
Mana dump - Tactic to use all mana a player has on an opponent in the form of harmful spells
Manifest - To become visible when dead
Ping - Test the amount of lag - a timing action
PKing - Killing Players
Reg up - Get more reagents, usually prior to a hunting adventure
Restock - To restock a vendor
Revert - Server outage - revert to previous data backup - Timewarp
Rez-Kill - The dastardly act of resurrecting and killing repeatedly
RP - Role-play
Scam - To gain items, usually valuable, by using devious, illegal methods
Spam, spamming - Action To say the same sentence over and over
Spar - To practice fighting or magery skills with a friend without the threat of death
Stat Loss Loss of stats due to dying in a faction.
Wall up - Make a wall at a doorway to prevent exit/entrance
X-heal - Cross heal
ITEMS
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Aids - Bandaids
Bandies, Bandys - Bandages
bbs - Blessed black sandals
BOD - Bulk Order Deed
Check - Bank check
Ethy - Ethereal Mount
Keg(s) - Potion Keg(s)
Loot - Gold, valuables - often removed from a corpse
MIB - Message in a bottle
Plate - Plate metal armor
Pure - Pure Black Nightmare
Rares - Uncommon or rare in-game items
Ride - Mount
SOS - Message in bottle - Same as MIB
Stone - Guildstone
T-map - Treasure map. Used to find and dig up hidden treasure.
Tub - Dye Tub, Furniture Tub, Black Dye Tub
Villa - house
OTHER
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7xGM - A player with 7 skills at maximum (100) level.
Base - A faction stronghold
Blue - Character with innocent status
BS - Blacksmith
Bug - A glitch in the game causing an error of some type.
Char - Character
Client - The program on your computer that communicates with the server
CoM - Council of Mages - Factions
Combo - A tactical combination of magic spells and/or weapon attacks.
Count - Murder count
Dex - Dexterity - Stat
Dex Monkey - A character with high dexterity
Dexxer - Thief, Fighter - Character with high dexterity
emote - Indicate emotion, as in *blushes*
GM - Game Master, Guild Master, Guild Mistress, Grand Master
Grey - Character with criminal or aggressor status.
Griefer - A player who repeatedly and intentionally engages in actions designed to interfere with other people's enjoyment of the game. A derogatory term.
Gump - Graphical User Menu Pop-up - can be opened and closed
Health - A measure of durability - equivalent to Strength
Hit points - The number of points remaining before death - See Health
ICQ - Instant Messenger that allows you to talk to other players via the net, outside of the game
IDOC - In Danger of Collapsing. The final decay stage of a house, before it collapses (disappears)
Int - Intelligence - Stat - See Mana
k - Thousand. 10k = 10,000 (gold coins, ingots, arrows etc.)
Lag - Internet latency, causing the connection to the game server to become slow
Main - Main character - the primary character used in the game.
Mana - Needed for casting magic spells - equivalent to Intelligence
mil - Million. 10mil = 10 million gold
Newbie, Noob, newB, noobie - An unworthy opponent; a battle-cry;
new player; uninformed
Nox Mage - A character with magery and poisoning
Oranges - Opposing Guild/Faction
Para ganked - Death by repeated paralyze spells so that one cannot move throughout the short remainder of their impending doom. Often characterized by application of several x-pattern energy or paralyze fields as well...
Para, para'd, parad - The casting of, or state of being under the effect of, the paralyze spell
Perma - Short for permanently grey, which affects a thief who has stolen from someone
PK - Player Killer. A UO player that is out to kill other (mostly innocent) players in-game
PvM - Player vs Monster
PvP - Player vs Player
Red - Character with murderer status
Scammer - A person who gains items, usually valuable, by using devious, illegal methods
See-saw - To manipulate stats fast using two stat modifying skills
Shard - Set of servers spanning one entire UO world
Sig - Signature
SL - Shadow Lords - Factions
Spammer - A person who says the same sentence over and over
Stats - The combination of Dexterity, Strength and Intelligence
Str - Strength - Stat - See Health
T2A - Ultima Online - The Second Age. An expansion pack that added the Lost Lands of Delucia and Papua to the game.
TB - True Brits
Trammie - Player who prefers playing on the Trammel facet
UOAM - Ultima Online Auto Map - Third party software
Vendor - A player-maintained NPC merchant
Vet - Veteran Player
PLACES
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Brit - Britain
Brit Bank - West Britain Bank
Buc's - Bucaneer's Den
CoD - City of the Dead
Del - Delucia
Fire Island - Jungle island to the south east, has Hythloth dungeon on it
Gate - Moongate. A fixed or magical created doorway that allows travel of groups over large distances.
Glow - Moonglow. A Britannian town
Green acres - An area on the map that is not legitimately an open area of the game, but which nevertheless some players managed to get runes to at some point. Used for testing by OSI personnel and, at one time, for training counselors.
GY - Graveyard
Ice - Artic Island
Ice Island - Same as Artic Island
Mag - Magincia
Maze - The Maze
Nujelm - Nujel'm
Pits - Dueling Pits
Serps - Serpents Hold
Skara - Skara Brae. A Britannian town
T2A - The Second Age lands
Trin - Trinsic
Xroad - Crossroad
POTIONS
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Black - Nightsight
Blue - Agility
DP - Deadly Poison. Green.
GA - Greater Agility. Blue. Increases dexterity.
GC - Greater Cure. Orange. Cures Poison
GE - Greater Explosion. Purple.
GH - Greater Heal. Yellow. Restores hit points.
GP - Greater Poison. Green.
Green - Poison
GS - Greater Strength. White. Adds strength.
Nox - Poison or Nightsight
NS - Nightsight. Black. See in the dark
Orange - Cure
Pots - Potions
Purple - Explosion
Red - Refresh
White - Strength
Yellow - Heal
REAGENTS
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Ash - Sulphorous Ash
BM - Blood Moss
BP - Black Pearl
Drake - Mandrake Root
GL - Garlic
GS - Ginseng
Moss - Blood Moss
MR - Mandrake Root
NS - Nightshade
Pearl - Black Pearl
Regs - Reagents
Root - Mandrake Root
SA - Sulphorous Ash
Shade - Nightshade
Silk - Spider Silk
SS - Spider Silk
SPEECH
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??? - Huh?, Excuse me?, What?
^^ - a smile
afk - away from keyboard
ar - armor rating
Art - Are (Thou art brave = You are brave)
b/f - boy friend
Banz0rr3d - Forcibly removed from uo (banned)
bay - ebay
bbs - be back soon
brb - be right back
brh - be right here
brt - be right there
btw - by the way
convo - conversation
cya - See you (later)
d00d - dude
dur - Durable
emm acc - Eminently Accurate
g/f - girl friend
gl - good luck
hail - hello
haxxor - hacker
hehe - Laughter
Hither - Not precisely 'here'; it's more like 'to here, towards here (this point)'.
ic - I see
imma - I'm a, I am a
irl - in real life
j/k - just kidding
j00 - you
k, kk - ok
keke - laughter
l00t - loot, remove items from a corpse
L8er - Later
lamer - twink
Lates - Later
leet, l33t, 1337, 371173 - very good. Derived from "elite"
lol - laughing out loud
lost conn - lost connection
ltz, l8r - later
mk - Hmm okay
morrow - morning
np - no problem
owned - I own you, your life, you are defeated
peekay, PK - PK, or player killer
plz - please
ppl - people
pwned - Owned
r - are
rl - real life
rofl - rolling on the floor laughing
roxxors - rocks
Sitters, Campers - Bank Sitters
Smackdown - Kicked Butt
sup - Hello, what's going on?
sup acc - Surpassingly Accurate
suxxors - sucks
tele - teleport
thee - you (as in: to you)
thine - your
thou - you (as in: you have)
thx - thanks
thy - your - belonging to thee
ty - thank you
u - you
ur - your, you're
wazzup - Hello, what's going on?
Wep - Weapon
woot - An emotional phrase - I DID IT! YOU DID IT! HOORAY!
y - why
yer - your
yw - you're welcome
SPELLS
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BS - Blade Spirits
Chain, CL - Chain Lightning
E-Field - Energy Field
EB - Energy Bolt
Ebolt - Energy Bolt
EQ - Earthquake
EV - Energy Vortex
Exp - Explosion
FS - Flamestrike
Gate - Gate Travel
GH - Greater Heal
Invis - Invisibility
MB - Mind Blast
Morph - Polymorph
MS - Meteor Swarm
Para - Paralyze
PF, P-Field - Paralyze Field
Poly - Polymorph
Res, Rez - Resurrection
SD - Summon Daemon
Summon - Summon Creature - Elementals - Air, Earth, Fire, Water
WEAPONS
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Bard, Bardy - Bardiche
Broad, Broady - Broadsword
Crook - Shepherd's crook
Dur - Durable - Weapon Modifier
Emm acc - Eminently Accurate - Weapon Modifier
Force - Weapon modifier
Fork - War fork
Halby, hally - Halberd
Hammer - War Hammer
Heavy - Heavy Cross-bow
Hvy - Heavy Cross-bow
Kat - Katana
LS - Long spear
Might - Weapon modifier
Power - Weapon modifier
Qstaff - Quarter staff
Ruin - Weapon modifier
Scimi, Skimi Weapon Scimitar
Silver - Weapon modifier - increases ability to kill undead
Sup acc - Surpassingly Accurate - Weapon Modifier
Vanq - Weapon of Vanquishing
Xbow - Cross-bow
