Dictionary And Acronyms

NOR-Specific Terms

Term	Definition
CC	NOR Community Center
Dagger	Capture the Dagger
Natural Revive	A 5 minute revive built into the system to signify the end of the "defeated" status, and the slow return to health.
NoR	Nation of Remembrance
NoRget	A term of endearment coined by the CC staff for a person that has newly arrived in NoR.

Term	Definition
AoE	Area of Effect
Buff	Temporarily Increase the Stats of a Target
Corpse Camping	If a player is revived by an enemy just to be defeated again with NO reason to do so, THIS is corpse camping.
cross RPing	The act of taking IC knowledge OOC or OOC knowledge IC.
DoT	Damage over Time
DPS	Damage Per Second
EXP	Experience (Also known as XP)
FPS	First-Person Shooter
Gank	When a much higher level person kills a low level person
godmod	Godmod (or godmodding) is when someone emotes in a way that forces the other characters action without giving them an opportunity to prevent the action
HoT	Heal over Time
HP	Hit Points
IC	In Character
KoS	Kill on Sight
metagaming	Using knowledge your player wouldn't have yet IC to influence their behavior or the Role Play
metapose	An emote that does not indicate an action someone can RP without metagaming
MMO	Massively Multi-Player Online (Game)
Nerf	The act of weakening a stat in a game in order to balance the mechanics
OOC	Out Of Character
power gaming	competitive player who works to maximize the game mechanics with disregard for the enjoyment of the RP and social interaction.
PvP	Player vs Player
Pwn	Own - Victory over an opponent
RP	Role Play
RPG	Role Playing Game
XP	Experience Points

Term	Definition
emote	text line for actions where your avatar name is followed by the remainder of the input text
Griefer	Someone who intentionally performs actions with the desire to disrupt or deny access to a sim, or disrupt the occupants of the sim
Havoc1	Old Physics Engine
Havoc4	New Physics Engine
HUD	Heads Up Display
LL	Linden Labs
LSL	Linden Scripting Language
Mono	New Engine (VM) for Scripts
Mouselook	The view where your camera pans and rotates with your mouse (normally this is the view from the perspective of your avatar's eyes)
Sim	Simulator - in SL, a Sim is 16 acres of virtual land (256m X 256m). Each sim runs in a separate memory and processing space on a server.
SL	Second Life
TP	Teleport

Term	Definition
AFK	Away From the Keyboard
BBIAB	(I'll) Be Back In A Bit
BRB	Be Right Back
BBL	Be Back Later
TTYL	Talk To You Later
IMO	In My Opinion
IMHO	In My Humble Opinion
KK	Ok
LOL	Laughing Out Loud
OMW	On My Way
ROTFL	Rolling On The Floor Laughing
TY	Thank You
YW	You're Welcome
WB	Welcome Back