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The players of Clan Lord have, over the years, created a slew of acronyms and abbreviations for their convenience. While some of these are taken from general internet jargon, many of the terms are unique to the Clan Lord world. Below is a list of the acronyms one can expect to hear in Puddleby:
Acronyms:
- AFK - Away From the Keyboard
- AG - Astral Guardian
- AH - Abyssal Hunter
- AM - Apprentice Mystic
- AMS - Angry Mother Sasquatch
- B&C - Bravery & Compassion
- BA - Blind Amphibia
- BB - Bloodblade
- BBer - Bloodblader
- BBL - Be Back Later
- BK - Bad Karma
- BOI - Brotherhood of Independants
- BOW - Best of Weak Tournament
- BRB - Be Right Back
- BRO - Big Red Orga (Orga Fury, Frenzy, Wrath, or Hatred)
- BRT - Be Right There
- BS - Back Spawn
- BTW - By The Way
- BU - Black Unicorn
- BW - Black Widow
- C - Coin(s)
- C&S - Cold and Snowy
- CC - Cave Cobra
- CD - Camp Dred
- CI - Centaur Island
- CL - Clan Lord
- CLUMP - Clan Lord Unofficial Manual Project
- CMR - Cave Maha Ruknee
- CoNGA - Coalition of Nocturnal Gaming Addicts
- CTF - Capture The Flag
- CW - Coin Whore, Corpse Warrior
- D/C - Disconnect
- DC - Dark Chamber, Deadly Crawler
- DI - Devil's Island
- DFU - Designated Falling Union
- DM - Dwarven Militia
- DP - Dred Passage
- DPDF - Dred Passage Discovery Foundation
- DR - Deathroot area of Metzetli Island
- DS - Detached Spirit
- DT - Dark Temple, Delta Tao Software
- DTN - Deathtrap Noids
- DV - Death Vermine
- DW - Dredwood
- E - East
- EAT - Exploration and Adventure Team
- EF - East Forest
- ELF - E'las Loth'mon Ferindril
- EoP - Eyes of Puddleby
- EP - Ethereal Plane
- EPS - Ethereal Portal Stone
- FA - Fat Alice, usually used to refer to her hut, or the snell it's located on
- FB - Falinea's Blade
- FERT - The Order of the Epnguin
- FH - Foothills
- FI - Fire Island
- FM - Full Moon, Full Mystic
- FMOCR - Full Moon Orga Camp Raid
- FWI - Far West Isle
- FYI - For Your Information
- GC - Giant Crawler, Green Crawler
- GCP - Giant Carnivorous Plankton
- GD - Greater Death
- GI - Gungla Island
- GK - Good Karma
- GM - Game Master
- GMV - Greymyr Village
- GAOG - Great Alliance Of Ghoraks?
- GP - Ghastly Presence
- GS - Great Sword?
- GV - Giant Vermine
- GW - Greater Wraith
- HC - Hooded Corpse
- HGM - Helpful GM
- HH - Hatreds' Hollow
- HWC - He-Who-Clicks (refers to a character's player)
- IC - In Character
- IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
- IMO - In My Opinion
- IP - Island Panther
- JG - Jannar's Grove
- JM - Journeyman Mystic
- KB - Kitty Beach
- KI - Kizmia's Island
- L&S - Light and Shadow
- LA - Laughing Academy
- LDV - Large Death Vermine
- LIFE - Lok'Groton Islands Foundation for Exploration
- LMW - Large Midnight Wendecka
- LMS - Little More Serious
- LOL - Laugh Out Loud
- LoW - Lords of the Wamphyrii
- LP - Lily Pond
- LSW - Large Sand Wurm, Lesser Sand Wurm
- LV - Large Vermine
- MI - Melabrion's Island
- MK - Melabrion's Keep
- MM - Megamouth, Melabrion's Mines
- MMS - Much More Serious, Much More Severe
- MP - My Pleasure
- MW - Midnight Wendecka
- N - North
- NBC - New Bear Caves
- ND - Nearing Death
- NF - North Forest
- NnK - Neko No Kessha
- NP - No Problem
- NPC - Non-Player Character
- NW - Night Wendecka
- NWF - Northwest Forest
- OBC - Old Bear Caves
- OC - Orga Camp
- OE - Orga Eye
- OH - Open Hands
- OOB - Orga Outback
- OOC - Out-Of-Character
- OOG - Order of the Glove
- OMG - Oh My God
- OMW - On My Way
- OS - Orga Stronghold
- OV - Orga Village
- OWE - Order of the White Elephant
- PAG - Pitch Assault Group
- PB - Puddleby
- PBI - Puddleby Bureau of Investigation
- PF - Pathfinder, Pathfinding
- PHIN-SUX - People's Haven In Nirvana - Sareth's Uprising and Xepel's Sanctuary (see Tenebrion's Island)
- PI - Portal Island
- PKM - Puddleby-Kiramu Monastery
- PM - Pogue Mahone, Puddleby Militia
- PMF - Pogue Mahone and Friends
- PMR - Plains Maha Ruknee
- PND - Perilously Near to Death
- PoE - Potion of Energy
- POS - Puddlebean Ornithological Soc.
- PPD - Puddleby Police Department
- PTF - Puddleby Taskforce
- PWC - Person-Who-Clicks (refers to a character's player)
- QC - Queen's Chamber
- QR - Queen's Room
- R/C - Reconnect
- RC - Recharge, Rocky Cavern, Rising Claw
- RHP - Red Healing Potion
- RHS - Red Healing Salve
- RL - Real Life
- ROFL - Roll On Floor Laughing
- RP - Role-Playing
- RQ - Red Quill
- RTFM - Read The @#$% Manual
- RW - Rank Whore
- S - South
- SACWAG - "Start a company, write a game."
- SC - Slate Caves, Super Chicken
- SDC - Sun Dragon Clan
- SF - South Forest
- SMS - Significantly More Serious
- SOB - Sisters of Benevolence
- SOG - Sturdy Oak Giant
- SOS - Sisters of the Sun, Sword of Souls
- SS - Sunstone
- SSTG - Sunstone Tuner's Guild
- STFU - Shut The @#$% Up
- SWC - She-Who-Clicks
- TC - Town Center
- TFR - ???
- TG - Tree Giant
- TGBG - Tree Giant Breeding Grounds
- TGBG2 - Redwood Grove
- TI - Tenebrion's Island
- TK - Tenebrion's Keep
- TMN - Thoomcare Media Network
- TW - Tangle Wood
- UI - Umbrion's Island
- UK - Umbrion's Keep
- UoP - University of Puddleby
- VC - Valley Cougar
- VCC - Venomous Cave Cobra
- VP - Valley Panther
- VT - Vermine Tree
- W - West
- WG - Wisher's Gate
- WoD - Winds of Dawn
- WS - Wailing Spirit
- XP - Experience (Points)
- YS - Young Sasquatch
- ZI - Metzetli Island
Phrases:
- bad weather - lag (slow or choppy network or server response)
- backpack - to heal someone while they're actively fighting, or the healer doing so
- brick - to "hold" a beast that is unable to hit you, allowing others to kill it, or the person doing so
- cad - Caduceus
- champ - Champion
- chaos storm - server update/reset, usually resulting in changes to the world
- coin whore - a character that exists solely to obtain coins, usually for other characters. Usually used as a verb for going out to hunt for coins
- fell - Fellblade?
- fog - lag (slow or choppy network or server response)
- goss - Gossamer
- half toggle - either /sharing or /unsharing someone as a way to communicate with them. Similar to share toggle
- lock - Orga Warlock (or Hemlock, Dredlock, etc.)
- lyfe - Lyfelidae
- maha - Maha Ruknee
- metz - short for Metzetli Island
- newbie - a new player of Clan Lord, or an older player who still plays like one
- noid - Arachnoid
- noth - Dal'noth
- opsec - operational security; the practice of keeping the activity of one's group secret, in the interests of keeping uninvited exiles from joining and jeapordizing a hunt. Once considered controversial, opsec is has come to be the standard mode of operation for most hunting groups
- pod - Forest Chamelopod
- rage - Orga Rage
- rank - one unit of training
- rank whore - someone who plays to get the most ranks possible, the fastest possible, a munchkin; as a verb, hunting to maximize experience gained in a given time.
- recharge - to regain one's spirit
- rod - to occupy a beast that can hit you by healing or being healed faster than it can do damage to you; or, a group of healers healing each other to accomplish that
- sav - Savannah
- share toggle - /unsharing and /sharing someone in quick succession; usually a way of communicating that one needs help, while fallen
- sig - Significantly More Serious
- sketch - a screenshot of Clan Lord
- snell - a segment of the game map. Crossing a snell boundary causes a moment's delay while the next snell and its contents are loaded into the client application's memory. Not all snells are the same size.
- snert - someone who is immature, annoying, or who gains pleasure from ruining other people's fun
- solo - to kill a beast by oneself and gain all the experience
- "soon" -Helpful GM's way of saying that something's being worked on and will be done eventually. Probably.
- tag - to get at least one hit on a beast, thus gain some of the experience
- thx - thanks
- toggle - see share toggle
- tok - Tok'Han
- unrec - Nearly Unrecognizable
- visionstone - a Clan Lord movie
- wendy - Wendecka
- whiff - to swing at something and miss
- wiff - see whiff
- zerk - Orga Berserk
- zu - Kudzu
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