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*Deliver: A distinctly [[Shallam|Shallamese]] or [[Church]]. It is used to request an emergency rescue with a [[Devotion]] skill of the same name. | |||
*Defendable: A term used to describe the defendable limits of the city. This includes the city itself and one room out of the boundaries of the city. City enemies attacked within defendable do not garner cause and are open pk. Example: ''South of The Gates of Mhaldor is still defendable territory.'' | *Defendable: A term used to describe the defendable limits of the city. This includes the city itself and one room out of the boundaries of the city. City enemies attacked within defendable do not garner cause and are open pk. Example: ''South of The Gates of Mhaldor is still defendable territory.'' | ||
*Doppie: Short for [[entities|Doppleganger]] See also: [[Achaean Lingo#Ents|Ents]] | |||
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*Ents: Short for [[entities|Entities]]. Usually of the [[Chaos Plane|Chaotic]] persuasion. | |||
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*Gate Raid: A term used to describe psuedo-raids on a city by a single adventurer or a group of adventurers. They often take place just outside of defendable range of the city, so as to lessen casualties on the raiding force and avoid guards. | *Gate Raid: A term used to describe psuedo-raids on a city by a single adventurer or a group of adventurers. They often take place just outside of defendable range of the city, so as to lessen casualties on the raiding force and avoid guards. | ||
*Griefer: A fairly OOC term, used to describe just about anyone who makes time in Achaea unpleasant for others. Usually Cause related. Example: ''He killed me twice with no Cause! He's such a griefer!'' See also: [[Achaean_Lingo#Cause_farming|Cause farming]] | *Griefer: A fairly [[Achaean Lingo#OOC|OOC]] term, used to describe just about anyone who makes time in Achaea unpleasant for others. Usually Cause related. Example: ''He killed me twice with no Cause! He's such a griefer!'' See also: [[Achaean_Lingo#Cause_farming|Cause farming]] | ||
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*Jump: to ambush. It is used in preference to ambush possibly because it takes less to type. | |||
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*Nerf: A distinctly [[Achaean Lingo#OOC|OOC]] term. It's used to describe a downgrade of anything; usually skills or a particular class. Example: ''Groves need to be nerfed!'' | |||
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*Occie: Short for [[Occultist]] | |||
*OOC: See Out of Character. | *OOC: See Out of Character. | ||
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*Whore: Other than its usual meaning, it is also used in conjunction with almost every other Achaean term to describe an excess usage of said term. For example to axe-whore is to describe a Sentinel repeatedly using the skill of axe throwing. It is derogatory in almost every context, denoting a lack of skill and hence an over-reliance on cheap tricks. See also: [[Achaean Lingo#Artiewhore|Artiewhore]] and [[Achaean Lingo#Honours whore|Honours whore]]. | |||
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