Heart of Fenris
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and Part 1 of The Burden of Conscience

Rhaegara found the EQ Glossary on the web

Bind - The spell that sets where your character reappears after death. By default this will be the furthest possible point from wherever it is you feel like hunting at that particular moment.

Camping - One of the truly lovely aspects of EQ. The process of making your virtual character sit on his virtual butt for up to 100 hours of online time waiting for a virtual frog/goblin/gnoll etc to spawn so your party can kill it and begin squabbling over whose turn it was to loot the rare item. In the end most people forgo camping and simply buy the item off Ebay. The people for whom they buy these items are those who make camping their profession. This means camping and selling items on Ebay is the only trade skill in EQ known to work at this time. Verant is currently in negotiations to buy Ebay so they can nerf this process.

Con - An NPC or MOBs level relative to your own, color coded for easy and fast determination of your chances against it in battle. Cons go from green to red like thus: Green - probably will kill you, Blue - Very likely will kill you, White - LOADING, PLEASE WAIT, Yellow - LOADING PLEASE WAIT, Red - LOADING PLEASE WAIT

Guard - A special type of NPC that stands around alternately glowering dubiously at some players and smiling warmly at others. The job of these level 45ish characters in full plate armour is to protect their cities from being invaded by giant skunks and wasps and to kill newbie bards who just bought Chords of Dissonance and forgot to turn it off. Have a nasty habit of being AWOL when a player needs help with some pissed-off MOB on his tail, only to appear suddenly ten miles from nowhere to "save" you from a yellow con you had down to 5HP.

Infravision - An attribute possessed by some races in the game whereby they can see in the dark almost as well as a legally-blind real life human with one glass eye wearing a blindfold ina closet. Races with infravision do not have this helpful ability and suffer a bit during the game's night periods.

Kill Stealer - Any caster that successfully kills a MOB anywhere, any times, even if he/she is the only in the zone.

Kite - A combat tactic that allowed certain classes to successfully kill MOBs, something Verant aparently is against, has been nerfed.

LD - Linkdead, crashed, went offline, lost connection suddenly etc. Usually happens in one of two situations 1. camping really tough rooms just as three level 35 mobs spawn (usually in this instance it's all five of your group mates that go LD) and 2. just as your character is running for the zone border with a hill giant on your heels. Verant has now added a thoughtful "So-and-so has gone linkdead" message when your groupmates drop so you no longer have to wonder if they're really LD or if they're just standing around watching while you solo those two spectres.

Loot - Money, weapons, magic items etc that can be found on the corpses of Mobs. Unfortunately Mob corpses are not just lying around - you have to manufacture them yourself (see Con) to acquire loot from a mobs corpse. This often requires an agreed upon order beforehand to avoid arguments over who has the rights to the goodies. Many parties use the alphabetic system, which is why you see so many characters nowadays named Aaaaamandarn and Aaaaaaaaaaaaandrielle. Some parties use a random process. In either case, as soon as the rare loot appears it is the job of one person in the party to loot it out of turn and offer "Hey, I haven't looted anything in ten minutes!" as an excuse.

Nerf - The act of reducing the effectiveness of a class or skill when it becomes apparent people are succeeding at it. This process happens to every class and every skill at some point. It is believed that by the year 2003 all the classes will have only hand to hand combat and no spells except Identify Item, and will be able to use Sense Heading only, at which point the game will be declared perfectly balanced. After the following patch, in the name of game balance, Identify Item will be removed from all spellcasters.

NPC - Non-player character. Can be distinguished from player characters by the fact that NPCs will actually appear to speak and spell correct English much of the time.

Powergamer - Term used with derision to describe anyone who levels faster than you do.

Trade Skill - A "career" that a player can take up in-game to earn money. The moment the player discovers a trade skill that allows him/her to make money, the skill is nerfed and the process starts over.

Train - A flock of angry mobs chasing some poor character to the zone border. The group of monsters picks up others along the way until an entire line of them is chasing the poor sap. The "trainer" may or may not warn his unsuspecting fellow players (the "trainees") at the zone border of the oncoming slaughter via a /shout (don't bet your life on it). Some zones in the game are so frequented by trains that most of the mobs are permanently at the border making the depths of the dungeons often the safest places to be for some peace and quiet. See Unrest, Mistmoore, Caiz Thule, Runnyeye, Crushbone, Befallen, Guk, Najena, Solusek, Permafrost, Blackburrow.

Twink - The act of giving newbie characters, usually the twinkers own, very high level equipment or armour for the express purpose of allowing those characters to level quickly to the point that they can go get more of the same armour to give back to the original character (or something like that). Also a character wielding weapons/armour he/she is too low or lazy to get for him/herself.

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The following are a selection of verses posted by Micke, our resident wise soul.

Don't cry with your eyes

Do it with your heart.

Every heartbeat of Fenris.
Just get us closer and more stronger.
The true path of life is just the beginning.

I was running through Norrath badly wounded. I zoned and there she stood.
Like an angel from heaven sent. With a shimmer of light all around her.
She knelt down and started to heal my wounds.
I wanted to tell her that she was the most beautyful thing I had seen in this hard world.
But i was to weak and I could only raise a smile towards her lovely face.
I felt the lifeforce was returning into my body from her gentle hands.
"Its time to rest my brave one", I heard her say. 
When I finally got my senses back she was gone.
Who was this lovely I met?
Until to day I do not know.
But I know someday our roads will cross again.

Let your soul flow in the wind. 
The force is not our enemy.
Its our companion.
Follow and be strong.

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