LegendMUD Newbie Guide

These issues have been indexed on the main web page for easy reference.

AC	Armor Class range is -100 to 100 with -100 best
AFK	'away from keyboard' usually means the person isn't watching their screen
AFK Buffer	Think of AFK as Voice Mail for tells -- it stores any tells you get
AGG MOB	aggressive NPC that will attack anyone arriving
BRB	'be right back' pretty much the same as AFK
CLIENT	an application that you can connect to the mud with that allows for aliases, triggers, & macros to be customized. Some popular ones are Tintin++, Tiny Fugue, Zmud, Genewic or GMud, Mutt Lite, and Ewan. Check popular ftp sites for availability.
CLAN	A player-run organization. May be RP or PK.
DIKU	a type of mud server that was developed at: DIKU -- The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, by: Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer
EQ	equipment, items, stuff -- or also the items you currently have equipped and are using
ERA	one of three sections of the mud, Ancient (ANC), Medieval (MED), or Industrial (IND)
GP	gold pieces, money
HER	short for HERO, lowest level immortal
HOMEROOM	the room to which you return when a recall spell is used, when you re-enter the game after auto-renting, or dying. The room changes when you rent or do a time trans quest.
IC	'in character' meaning what you do is consistent with the role you are playing with a character -- also the command for returning from the Out of Character Lounge (OOC), the Wild Boar Tavern
IMM	short for IMMORTAL, second level immortal, they have at least one area in the game
IMMORT, GOD	one of the administrators of the game, they can't influence game play, but are around to make sure it goes smoothly and to create new additions to the world
IMP	highest level immortal
INV	inventory, what you're carrying but not using
LAG	the delay in the information sent back and forth across your link
LINK-DEAD	also called LD, it's when your connection is cut, your character remains in the game, but not functioning. You will auto-stand and auto-flee if attacked while you're link dead, but your safety isn't guaranteed. You cannot be given anything if link-dead, nor will you earn experience.
LINK	your connection to the mud via the internet
LOL	'laughing out loud' similar to 'ROFL'
MERC	a type of mud server by Furey, Hatchet, and Kahn that is based on the DIKU server code
MOB	a computer controlled character, also called NPCs
MOODS	shorthand for the mud's speech system, which permits placing speech tags on your speeches
MORTAL	a character who is level 50 or below and killable
MOTD	'message of the day' gives important information when logging in. another source of important information is
NEWBIE	someone who is new, a low level character. A newlyn is a female low level character, they're all newbies.
NPC	'non-player character' or a computer controlled character, also called mobs
OOC	'out of character' when you do things as yourself, not in the context of the role you are playing with your character -- also the command for going to the Out of Character Lounge (OOC), the Wild Boar Tavern
PC	a character controlled by a live human being connected via the internet
PK	pkill, playerkilling -- a voluntary system where pkenabled characters can attack or steal from each other by joining clans set up for this purpose or going it alone as a 'rogue.'
PKENABLED	someone who can participate in player vs player combat
RECALL	a magic spell that returns you to your homeroom from nearly anywhere in the game. This spell doesn't work in all rooms.
RL	real life
ROFL	'rolling on the floor laughing' similar to 'LOL'
RP	roleplaying -- where you set up a personality, history, etc for a character and try to present that role to the other characters consistently.
SPAM	when the screen scrolls by so you can't read it with annoying repeated acts, chats, or tells.
TF	if someone is asking for it to be done, it's 'true forming' a magic spell that repairs magicial equipment. It can also mean a client application by the name of Tiny Fugue.
TICK	a half hour in mud time or on average 75 seconds in real time
TIME TRANS	a quest that takes you from one era to another in the same geopgraphical location
TINTIN	TT++, a client application for use with muds that allows for aliases, triggers and macros.
UNCLANNED	someone who is NOT pk-enabled and should not influence CLANNED disputes by using skills or spells or risk becoming pk enabled themselves.
WARY/AGG	your relative position to the fight. scale of -3 to +3 default is 0 and you return to 0 when you awake, the more wary you are, the further you edge from the fight, the more aggressive you are the closer in you fight your opponent. AC and +hit are associated with this.
XP, EXP	experience points, what you need to level and gain from killing, exploring, and questing