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Auto Hit/Doge: Any more or action that automaticaly hits another persons RPC, or block/ evades an RPC's attack. This is what leads to God Modding, every now and then let the other person make an action that can hit you or block
Example: Yamato pointed the double barral shotgun at Neo-X, and he pulled the trigger. Suddenly in a blinding flash of light Neo-X was behind Yamato and he thrusted a sword into his back killing him instantly.

Death: When an RPC dies in a role play. The character is removed from the story, normaly the owner of the RPC must agree that it's ok to kill their RPC.

Element: 1) Reffered to powers in nature that RPC's can use with Magic. Each element is strong aganst another element, but weak to another. Think of it as a gaint game of Rock, Paper, Scisors.
Example: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Ice, Electricity, Light, Darkness
2) A setting in the story, Elements can be happy, sad, mornful, scary, ext
Example: It was a calm night, a few crickets chirped in the distance. The full moon list the forest in the maze of light and shadow. A spring wasn't far off as the sounds of trickeling water were herd through the trees.

God Mod: God Modding, When an RPC: can't be Hurt/ Killed, is to quick to touch, Has ultimate powers, can kill in a single blow, ext... Every one wants their RPC to be the best but you can't make them a "God" God Modding normaly gets you kicked out of RP's.

Fighting: when two RPC's have a battle in a RP

NPC: Non Playing Character, a person the thread owner makes up to help the story along. NPC is any character in the Role Play that dosn't have a set user.
Example: a Inn Keep selling Ale and renting rooms to weary travelers.

OOC: out of character, is the speech used in RP threads where a player can talk with out using his or her character. Normally an OOC chat is placed in Parentheses "(" " wink "
Example: Yamato ran up to a tree and knelt to the ground. Yamato felt the soil, it was wet, and distorted. (Hey guys I have to go eat for, I'll be back in an Hour)

Profile: List of information about your Current RPC(s). Normaly things like: Race, Gender, Weapons, powers, a picture, and BIO are requested to be put into a Profile. Some profiles are more in dethp then others, going as far as to ask for: Age, Heght, Weight, Eye color, Hair color, Fav things, Least Fav things,and Sexual Preferance.

RPC: Role Playing Character, That's your character for the current Role Play.

Weakness: Any thing, or time that leaves your RPC depleated of power. Be it Sun to a vampire, or Kryptonite to Superman every RPC and NPC must have a Weakness in order to be defeated. After being hit with your weakness soon after your RPC should lose the fight he or her is in.