Avlissian: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(→FOIG: Updated Systems link from old redirect, added info about FOIG, Inc, and replaced dead external link with internal one.) |
m (Spacing and indenting (lists)) |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
''Abbreviation'' | ''Abbreviation'' | ||
# Find out in game. Means to either encourage a player to seek previously asked information inside the game itself, or to state a reason why certain information was removed ''(Also may refer to [[:Category:FOIG|FOIG, Inc.]], named after the abbreviation)''. | # Find out in game. Means to either encourage a player to seek previously asked information inside the game itself, or to state a reason why certain information was removed ''(Also may refer to [[:Category:FOIG|FOIG, Inc.]], named after the abbreviation)''. | ||
#: | |||
#: '''Origin:''' First used by [[User:PlasmaJohn | PlasmaJohn]] in [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?p=668202#p668202 this post], FOIG quickly became a craze, with curiosities like the [[:File:Foig3gh.gif | FOIG stamp image]] appearing. FOIG is a popular answer used by [[The Avlis Team | the Avlis Team]] to questions regarding details on [[:Category:Systems | in-game systems]]. | |||
===IC=== | ===IC=== | ||
| Line 24: | Line 23: | ||
''Verb'' | ''Verb'' | ||
# To bring your laptop to an Avlis meet, only to find out that it doesn't pick up the wireless connection available. | # To bring your laptop to an Avlis meet, only to find out that it doesn't pick up the wireless connection available. | ||
===To Pull a Xeo=== | ===To Pull a Xeo=== | ||
''Verb'' | ''Verb'' | ||
Revision as of 21:12, 13 April 2016
Avlissian is the language spoken by players of Blackdagger: The World of Avlis.
Vocabulary
FOIG
Abbreviation
- Find out in game. Means to either encourage a player to seek previously asked information inside the game itself, or to state a reason why certain information was removed (Also may refer to FOIG, Inc., named after the abbreviation).
- Origin: First used by PlasmaJohn in this post, FOIG quickly became a craze, with curiosities like the FOIG stamp image appearing. FOIG is a popular answer used by the Avlis Team to questions regarding details on in-game systems.
IC
Adjective
- An acronym for "In Character". Information deemed "IC" is something your character might know, given access to the right channels of information.
OOC
Adjective
- An acronym for "Out of Character". This is a phrase to describe things that you as a player know, but which your character never could.
To Pull a Ghostie
Verb
- To bring your laptop to an Avlis meet, only to find out that it doesn't pick up the wireless connection available.
To Pull a Xeo
Verb
- To lock yourself into your own inn room, by placing the key of the room into the chest.
- Origin: The player Xeo Bodacea, commonly referred to as Xeo, and naming himself that on Irc, used to lock himself into his inn room often, resulting in a posting on the boards with a call for DM help to get him out. Because of the public attention that this frequent mistake he made generated, his name became synonymous with the action.
- Might also refer to subsequently retireing and reviving the same character.
- Origin: The same player also retired and revived his character Isamu several times.