Editing Abbreviations and Terms

Fallen London has developed some fanspeak terms, which might confuse you on the community forums or in the IRC (Internet Relay Chat - a chat room for Fallen London enthusiasts. You can [https://widget02.mibbit.com/?settings=46f006e74f868d1d690d02528968c9a0&server=irc.synirc.net&channel=%23Fallenlondon use a web client to connect], if you like). An attempt to list them shall be below:

==Qualities==

;BDR
:[[Bizarre]], [[Dreaded]], [[Respectable]]. Refers to the combined number when adding the Bizarre, Dreaded and Respectable stats together. Having high BDR is crucial to gaining [[Notability]] (see [[Bizarre, Dreaded, Respectable (Guide)]]).

;CP
:[[Leveling|Change points]], marking progress toward increasing the level of a quality. Could be considered experience.

;MW
:[[Making Waves]], a quality related to [[Notability]]. Also needed for a few other things, such as crafting a [[Night on the Town]] at the [[Bazaar Sidestreets]].

;Nota
:[[Notability]].

;SiC
:[[Someone Is Coming]], a quality gradually raised up to 4 on various cards, resulting in [[A Gift from the Capering Relicker]]

;PoSI
:[[A Person of Some Importance -]], a quality required for some high-level storylets. Has both advantages and disadvantages, the reduction in efficiency of menace reducers such as [[F.F._Gebrandt's_Superior_Laudanum|Laudanum]] being a significant drawback, especially at low levels (for a guide consult [[A Person of Some Importance (Guide)]].

;PtPT
:Short for Putting the Pieces Together. Typically refers to the [[:Category:Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre|Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre]] quality (mostly gained from the seasonal events at Christmas) but is occasionally used for [[:Category:Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies|Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies]].

;SotC
:[[A Scholar of the Correspondence]], a quality required for entering the University and of importance when dealing with the Masters or the Bazaar, or choosing [[Correspondent]] as a profession.

=== Advanced Statistics ===
Special skills that become available in the late game:
* KT: [[Kataleptic Toxicology]]
* AotRS: [[Artisan of the Red Science]]
* MA: [[Monstrous Anatomy]]
* SA: [[Shapeling Arts]]
* PoC: [[A Player of Chess]]
* SotD: [[Steward of the Discordance]]

Sometimes you can see abbreviation '''MAGCATS''' which stands for first letters from skills in order:

# [[Mithridacy]]
# [[Monstrous Anatomy|Anatomy, Monstrous]]
# [[Glasswork]]
# [[A Player of Chess|Chess, A Player of]]
# [[Artisan of the Red Science]]
# [[Kataleptic Toxicology|Toxicology, Kataleptic]]
# [[Shapeling Arts]]

It is a bit outdated, as it does not list [[Steward of the Discordance]] or [[Zeefaring]], two stats released after it was coined

==Content & Stories==
;FL
:Fallen London, the game. Was called Echo Bazaar (EB) at its inception.

;SS (SSea, SSkies)
:Sunless Seas or Sunless Skies, other games set in the same universe.

;FB/FBG
:Failbetter Games, the developers of Fallen London.

;EF
:Exceptional Friend(ship), a paid subscription to Fallen London granting quality of life features, extra locations, and the monthly [[Exceptional Story]].

;MYN
:Refers to the '''Making Your Name''' storylines

*[[A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets]]
*[[A Name Scrawled in Blood]]
*[[A Name Signed with a Flourish]]
*[[A Name Whispered in Darkness]]

;SFiG (or USFiG)
:[[Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold (Story)|Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold]], a fate-locked storyline of some lore interest.

;SMEN
:[[Seeking Mr Eaten's Name]], an incredibly menacing and damaging storyline. Was put on hiatus in... November/December 2013, due to [https://www.failbettergames.com/?p=1331 problems with its punishing nature, bugginess, and interactions with fate-locked content]. Was revived in June 2016, slightly tamed. A guide can be found [[Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (Guide)|here]].

===Ambitions===
*'''BaL''' - [[Ambition: Bag a Legend!|Bag a Legend!]]
*'''HD''' - [[Ambition: Heart's Desire!|Heart's Desire!]]
*'''LF''' - [[Ambition: Light Fingers!|Light Fingers!]]

== Getting things ==

;EPA
:[[Echo|Echoes]] per action, an estimate of the cash value of doing something. Some of the best options are listed [[Money-Making|here]].

;PPA
:[[Penny|Pence]] per action, an estimate of the cash value of doing something.

;SPA
:[[Hinterland Scrip|Scrip]] per action, an estimate of the Scrip value of doing something. Some of the best options are listed [[Hinterland Scrip-Making|here]]

;Carousel 
:A repeatable loop of actions, resulting in one large payout.

== Retired ==
;K&C
:[[A Participant in the Underground Leagues of Knife-and-Candle|Knife &amp; Candle]], a mischievously murderous game where you stab other players. It was revealed to have been canceled in a patch note on the 13th of April 2021.

;MYE
:Meeting Your End, also know as Metempsychosis, was a potential story that would have allowed players to retire a character and starting a new one. It was a common source of discussion among the community, and was controversial. It was delayed once, until Failbetter Game finally announced on April 12th 2021 that it was cancelled.

== Miscellany ==
The following terms are not really directly related to the gameplay or storytelling in this game, but are acronyms or abbreviations that are often used by people who have experience in the technical designs of games.

;RNG
:Short for "random number generator", a common tool in the software-design of digital games; these are colloquially 'digital dice'. The game uses RNGs for many things, such as in the challenge rolls and random-changing of [[:Category:Randomizer|Airs qualities]]. (''For better or worse, the utterance of this abbreviation is usually accompanied with complaints about luck-dependent elements in the gameplay.'')

;BiS
:Short for "Best in slot", expression often used together with some item and stat denoting it's best one in the given slot.

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