A Guvner's Guide to Cager Slang

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Sigilian or Silgilite? The debates rage on.

Knowing the slang of a place is one of the many keys of knowing such a place. Herein we will try to wrestle down the slang of Sigil for those clueless Primers who make their way through one of our city's countless doors.

I am going to attempt to list the words first in order to define them later. Anyone who could add to the list would be appreciated. Anyone who wants to take the time to define a word, to be pasted in this first post of the thread later, would be counted among the truly blessed.

It should be noted that much of the slang in Sigil has a distant relation to the slang of a Prime city known as London in its Victorian era. Or, more accurately, the slang of London was somehow effected by a native of Sigil.

Basher

Being

Blood

Body

Bone-box

Cager

Cutter

Dabu

Dark

Deadbook

Lightboy

Petitioner

Proxy

Tout

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Sigil-ian. Mostly because the inhabitants of the City of Doors... are "of" the place.

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http://www.mimir.net/cant/cant2.html

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And its done.

Project abandoned.

Thanks.

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Uh no reason to get puffy there is lots of cant at that link but that shouldn't stop you or anyone else from adding new cant if you find it or think of it. There has been at least one other thread on here that was doing something like that and they can often be fun and useful.

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See also this thread which I started to expand the known limits of cant.

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I wasn't getting puffy. S'cool.

I'm wondering how cant is used in play. Can it be over-done? Can it serve to keep players from feeling like Cagers rather than increasing the foreign vibe?

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Sorry misread your statement and I think the answers to your questions depend entirly on the players in your group. I have played with members who love to get into roleplaying and speak as their characters and others who have a hard time even making a statement their character might make. They always say My character asks this or that. Not to mention everything between the extremes.

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