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Revision as of 16:18, 15 July 2014
As is the case in most IRC channels, abbreviations pepper our OOC conversations -- and the roleplay-related ones can be particularly confusing to a new player. The following is a list of those abbreviations most frequently encountered in our channels.
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Common IRC Abbreviations
- AFK: Away From Keyboard
- BRB: Be Right Back
- BBIAB: Be Back In A Bit
- WB: Welcome Back
- TY: Thank You
- LOL: Laugh Out Loud
- ROFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
- PM: Private Message
- OP: Channel Operator
Roleplay-Specific Abbreviations
- RP: Role Play
- FFRP: Free Form Role Play
- MFFRP: Medieval Free Form Role Play
- IC: In Character
- OOC: Out Of Character
- BIC: Back In Character
- PG: Powergaming
- ST: Story Teller
- RPer: Role Player
In Character
In Character (IC) is a roleplaying term, referring to the world of the characters rather than the world of the players. That is, a character talking to another character is an IC interaction, set within the IC world.
The #Broken_Dagger channel is strictly an IC-only channel.
Out of Character
Out of character (sometimes abbreviated to OOC) is a phrase used in roleplaying to differentiate between the person playing a character and the character itself. When the person is being him-or-herself, rather than playing their character, he or she is said to be "out of character". Plainly, OOC refers to things said by the author of the message, rather than by the character(s) that author is playing.
OOC is strictly forbidden in #Broken_Dagger. If you wish to communicate OOC, please go to Broken Dagger's OOC channel, #BD_OOC.
Bot
A bot is short for "robot" and is used to describe an automated, coded program.
In most cases on this website, "bot" will refer to a nickname on IRC that isn't a person, but just a bot, coded to respond to requests in channels and execute specific tasks and duties.
Pritchard was a bot that served as the bartender in Broken Dagger. He had the ability to serve drinks to players that used predetermined codes. If a person typed one of these codes in-channel, it would trigger a response from the bot.
