Sweetland Trilogy

buds — tiny ear­pieces which fit inside the ear for lis­ten­ing to the grid audio (such as phone, av, music, or 3D inworld com­mu­ni­ca­tion). The poor­est peo­ple are forced to lis­ten to adver­tise­ments. Young peo­ple wear them with small chains attached to earrings.

voc (pro­nounced voke) is the “mouth­piece.”  A voc may be fixed to a col­lar, neck­lace or body jew­elry attached to the neck skin near the vocal chords or on a tongue stud. It may be con­trolled by sub-vocalising or by speak­ing nor­mally, using a com­mand pro­to­col called vopro.  Old-fashioned peo­ple like Joe may still use a cell like device, but it con­nects in the same way through the grid. Also, office envi­ron­ments, like The Agency, may use sta­tion­ary tele­phones, but they also tap into the grid.

ocs (pro­nounce like ox)—citspecs, or other devices to tap into the grid visually.

mod­slot —a mod­slot is a port on the cit­specs for plug­ging in mod­ules, or mods.

mod —a mod­ule which gives spe­cial func­tion­al­ity to the inworld experience.

vopro —vocal­iza­tion pro­to­col, a com­mand lan­guage for grid devices. For instance, to make a “phone call” one says, “call ______ (num­ber or name with pre-stored number).”  

vir­tual —a vir­tual is an indi­vid­ual who has had per­ma­nent ocs, buds and voc implants. They may also have mod­slot implants in the boney area behind the ear.

cit­specs are devices which allow you to expe­ri­ence 3D worlds. They are like wrap-around sun­glasses, and work in tan­dem with glove-like con­trollers, called paws. Rich peo­ple may have cit­specs which are con­tact lenses. The wearer of cit­specs has the abil­ity to con­trol the trans­parency, so they can nav­i­gate in both a sim world and the real world simultaneously.

paws—also, per­ams. cit­specs con­trollers for move­ment in the 3D world.

com —also nanocom, a com is a nano-particle com­mu­ni­ca­tion device used com­mer­cially in prod­uct track­ing, or in spy devices for the gov­ern­ment or military.

oled —(pro­nounce oh-led) from the acronym for organic light emit­ting diode. These have become the light­ing stan­dard in 2027.

cider —a sui­cide bomber.

dis­ap­peared —clan­des­tinely killed by secret police or death squads

griefer —an indi­vid­ual who breaks the pro­to­cols of New Life by using his/her avi to harass, stalk, or oth­er­wise dis­rupt or harm others.

sassi —an assas­sin. A griefer who tries to per­ma­nently take out someone’s avi. Named for a clan­des­tine group of anar­chist female griefers, extant in the game worlds of the 2010s. 

black­wa­ter is a generic name for mercenary.

clean-n-safe is local port­land, ore­gon street slang for pri­vate secu­rity police.

popo is slang for police

charley —youth slang, used sort of like, dude.

black trash —a deadly form of meth-amphetamine, also called death, black death, black ice. 

gone to sweet­land —slang for gone to heaven, in heaven, in nir­vana, high, dead. 

avatar — an ani­mated 3D dig­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of a person

avi — an avatar

bot —a pro­grammed (or auto­mated) avi. Gen­er­ally, it might refer to any type of robotic device.

spy­bot —a bot for spy­ing on peo­ple. These might be cyborg insects or pro­grammed objects Inworld.

inworld — to be immersed in a sim world.

rez — to resolve a 3D object in a sim (make a dig­i­tal ‘object’ appear)

sim — a 3D sim­u­lated environment

tele­port or TP—to travel (nearly) instan­ta­neously from one point to another in a 3D environment.