| S&S | shop and save/scan, what you do between missions (sell loot and scan to save xp) |
| SAV | Southern Artery Valley |
| Scan | the act of saving your character at a scanning terminal. "I need to go scan" |
| Scope | Either an LLTS, VE, or TIM (a unique/camped mob drop scope). Scoping is the term used to describe tinkering with scope QL and inits to optimize one's weapon performance through the use of one of the aforementioned scopes. |
| SD | the Den: Smugglers Den. A static dungon. |
| SEB | Stret East Bank |
| sec | second (example: I'll be there in a sec) |
| sen | the sense ability |
| Sentinels | an outpost in Mort where the big d and little d dungeons are located |
| SFA | Superior First Aid, a doctor's +80 treatment buff. |
| SFH | Southern Foul Hills |
| SFP | Southern Fouls Plains |
| shotty | shotgun |
| SI | sensory improvement & modification, a nano skill |
| SL | Shadowlands. Booster pack for AO. Not yet released. |
| Slayer | a slayer droid, the most powerful engineer pet available. Very nasty in team missions, very hard to calm/mez. |
| SMG | submachine gun or the skill of the same name |
| smurf | a fixer in grid armor, so called because the armor's head to toe blue appearence makes the wearer resemble a cartoon Smurf |
| Smurf | Fixer in Grid Armor... LOL (sorry couldn't prevent myself from writing it) |
| Snare | a nanoprogram that reduces its target's runspeed for a period of time. Snare and Root both were the names of spells with the same functions in EQ. |
| So8 | Servants of Eight, its a type of MA armour. |
| Social | Used to describe creatures that help out each other. i.e. if you attack a rhino beater and another rhino type is around, then that second rhino will attack you also, because rhinomen are social. |
| SOL | s**t out of luck |
| sol | soldier or sometimes Solitus |
| sol | the solitus breed |
| spawn | when a mob first materializes into the game it is called spawning |
| speeches | engineer and bureaucrat area buffs/debuffs that recycle every 20 seconds, also called auras |
| Splitting Mobs | Split Pulling, Pull Splitting, Mob Splitting = Using one of several techniques to seperate social mobs so that you can fight them without any/many adds. |
| sta | the stamina ability |
| Step Implants | Implants that raise a specific stat or skill that are worn for the purpose of installing better implants in other locations, installing maps or NCU equipment, or wearing high QL armor. Step implants are removed and replaced with normal skill implants after you've equipped whatever; popular step implant sets are for psychic, stamina, comp lit, treatment, and map nav. |
| STFU | shut the %¤# up |
| stfu: | this got me a few years ago. It means Shut The F Up, not "stuff you" I think it should mean stuff you though, much more polite.. |
| str | the strength ability |
| sup | a friendly greeting, dervived from "what's up?" |
| Support Class | Used to refer to a profession that may halp a team in a variety of ways, and is not focused on one specific task such as healing or doing damage. Examples of a support class are Bureaucrat, Enginner and Meta-Physicist. |
| SWB | Stret West Bank |
| SWG | Star Wars Galaxies, another MMORPG |
