-Real-Life & Role-Play Use of Words-
When role-playing; especially in a fantasy or other fiction setting, many words that we use everyday online can seriously ruin the role-play atmosphere. This usually only occurs in a chat room, but wherever it occurs, it is annoying. For instance, if you are role-playing in a medieval setting while in a role-playing chat room, and suddenly someone in character, uses a word like link or email, it becomes a clashing of real-life and role-play where such clashing is unwanted. Think about it, you are in medieval times, and someone starts talking
about joining the site, now even if it is meaning the site/community/group that your RP chat room is based on, using the phrase, ’Let me get you a link to our community’, simply does not belong.
There are better, more 'role-play-like' words to use: 'I will have my guard escort you to your chambers', is much more fitting. Then you can proceed to drop the link for him/her in whisper.
Just use common sense, and know that certain words used within certain storylines, do not fit with that role-play, and it does not take a monkey to know what fits and what does not.
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site/community/group - realm, home, name of structure home - castle, fortress, etc.
chat room - realm, home, location, name of structure or place role-play takes place within - castle, fortress, tavern, desert, etc.
link - portal, passage, gateway, door, opening, transportation
email - parchment, message
email address - location, contact
Instant Messenger/IM - mind link, or in some instances can be used the same as words for ‘chat room’
message board/forum - location - chamber room, etc.
hammer/gold hammer - power
cup/away mode - better used with a phrase or action - I shall return, Seria leaves the throne room
bot - guard
kicking from room - using a hammer to kick someone from your realm should be done before or during (in kick message if during) stating that a guard has escorted someone out
member list - clan/empire/kingdom log
clan tag - brand, medallion, a medal worn on clothing, a tattoo, a carving in the skin
fighting style - when role-playing, should be referred to as ‘experienced in...’ but never use the RL (real life) terms: QT, TB, etc.
web site - referred to same as site/community/group, and in some instances, chat room
web page - referred to place or structure the page is about- archive, tomb, library, etc.
character profile - should not be used in role-play by means of speaking of it or acknowledging it as in character. A character profile is more so for OOC (out of character) use
copy/paste - as in a scribe recording, log of history, or a creature/being capable of using a mind power to remember and see everything as it happened
moofie - can be a variety of things depending on the nature of your role-play - shadow creature, mind-loss, a blackout
whisper - should also be used with an action or instruction before hand - Come with me to my chambers, May I speak with you privately (then action that you leave to a private location, room, balcony, etc.), Walks so-and-so to her chambers (then proceed to go into your cup), or can be used with an action beforehand, Leans into her ear and whispers quietly..., this not requiring you to cup
reading anything on the screen - should be referred to as what one sees, or what the character sees. Of course, this only applies to whether or not your character is in the same location as the people he/she is reading about OOC, otherwise it is a mode.
moder/moding - should never be referred to or spoken of in a role-play situation. Moder/moding is only an OOC term
chat category (general, entertainment, interests, etc. in MSN) - northern, southern, eastern, western realms or lands
room host - can be used as host, but also guardian, guard, high power, etc.
narrator/game master/administrator - they are never spoken of IC (in character)
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