| A
Guide to Slang in Mega-City One |
| Aeroball |
Once fashionable
cross between basketball and kung-fu, played in the air using
personal jet packs. |
| Aggro
Dome |
Mega City
recreation centers, where citizens could work off violent tensions
against robots and machines. |
| Bambo |
A term
of abuse; a stupid person. |
| Big
Sleep |
Extreme
tactic used by the Judges to pacify unruly sectors by tranquilizing
them with nerve agents. |
| Big
Smelly |
Slang term
for the Ohio River, now buried underground and inhabited by
mutants and other outcasts. |
| Birdie |
Hand held
electronic lie detector used by Judges. |
| Black
Atlantic |
Formerly
known as the Atlantic Ocean, now so heavily polluted it keeps
catching fire. |
| Bleeper |
Tiny electronic
radio transmitter, used by Judges to follow Perps. |
| Blitzer |
Assassin,
hit man. Their premeditated kills are known as Blitzes. Agency
Blitzers are often rigged with booby-traps to prevent them from
being captured and interrogated by Judges. |
| Block |
Giant high
rise buildings, which make up most of Mega City One. Citizens
who live in them are often called Blockers. |
| Block
War |
Blockers
are often fiercely loyal to their particular Block, which occasionally
leads to all out war with another Block. |
| Body-Sharking
|
Illegal
trade in the bodies of living humans who are destined for medical
experimentation, slavery or to suffer having their brains removed
and replaced by that of another, usually a wealthy eldster who
wishes to savour a youthful existence once more. This often
goes in hand with the crime, Organ-Legging. |
| Boing |
Aerosol
sprayed substance that forms a rubbery bubble around the user;
used for games in the Palais-de-Boing. The bubble is impervious
to all but special boing-cutters, although fire tends to make
the bubble melt and stick against a surface. Judges often use
Hi-Ex against them to hold the perp in place. |
| Brit-Cit |
English
counterpart of Mega-City One, taking up most of southern Great
Britain. |
| Button
Jock |
Slang for
disc jockey or dj. |
| By
Grud! |
Legal expletive
used by Judges to reduce adrenalin in times of crisis. Grud
effectively replaces the word God. |
| Catch
Wagon |
A Justice
Department vehicle used to collect perps from holding posts
and deliver them to the Iso-Cubes. |
| Chump
Dumping |
Lethal
scam whereby citizens are lured aboard starships with the promise
of cheap holidays on other worlds, only to find themselves blown
out of airlocks by the unscrupulous crew, or sold into slavery
on some distant alien world. |
| Citi-Def |
The City
Defense Force, a voluntary militia organized on a Block basis,
to train in civil defense. |
| Code
Red |
Judge in
danger. All judges within the area to aid at once. |
| Credit |
Unit of
currency in Mega City One. |
| Cursed
Earth |
Vast radioactive
wasteland, stretching over most of central North America, inhabited
by outcasts, mutants, slavers, and monsters. |
| Drek |
Legal expletive
used by Judges to reduce adrenalin in times of crisis. Not as
commonly used as Drokk. |
| Drokk |
Legal expletive
used by Judges to reduce adrenalin in times of crisis. Drokk
is very commonly used. |
| Dunk |
A pick-pocket
or the act of pick-pocketing (dunking). Also sometimes called
Dip or Dipping. |
| East
Meg |
Eastern
European/Asian counterparts of Mega City One; inhabitants known
as Sovs. East Meg One was destroyed after declaring
war on Mega-City One during the Apocalypse War. Now only East-Meg
Two still stands. |
| Fattie |
Term for
one of Mega City One's obese food fanatics, who hold illegal
eating contests, and protest for more food rations. They usually
use a Belliwheel to prop up their stomach so they are still
able to move. |
| Femmy
Gang |
All-female
street-tribe, typically dressed in intimidating clothing (spikes,
leather, chains) and armed. |
| Flake
Off |
Get lost,
go away. |
| Futsie |
The victim
of 'Future Shock Syndrome', a nervous breakdown caused
by the strains of Mega-City One life, which culminates in a
spate of violence against city property and other citizens.
Normal sentencing for Futsie-related crimes involves a duration
in a Psycho-Cube and drugs therapy. Extreme cases - repeat Futsies
- may require lobotomizing as a last resort. |
| Geek |
Jerk, nerd. |
| Gink |
Fool, idiot.
|
| Grud |
Effectively
replaces the word God. |
| Griblig |
Extraterrestrial
pests resembling children's furry toy bears, about a foot in
height. They breed rapidly. |
| Gump |
A small
time criminal. |
| Hab |
Slang for
a small apartment or living unit. |
| Heister |
An armed
robber. |
| Holding
Post |
Post to
which a Judge can temporarily cuff a Perp, if he has other urgent
business to deal with, to be picked up by a Catch Wagon. |
| Holiday
Specials |
Citizens
who are bribed into smuggling contraband back into Mega-City
One during their vacations abroad. |
| H-Wagon |
Justice
Department hover vehicle, usually carrying personnel or heavy
weapons. |
| Iso-Cube |
Standard
for of imprisonment; a Block full of small, empty, plasteen
cubes. Often referred to as just, the cubes. Example "You
are going to spend the next ten years in the cubes!" |
| Jimping |
Impersonating
a Judge; a serious criminal offence. Those committing this crime
are called Jimps. |
| Jugger |
Huge trucks,
often as between two to four lanes wide. |
| Juve |
A young
teenager, or child. |
| Juve-Cubes |
Special
prisons for young offenders. |
| Lawgiver |
The Judges'
automatic, multi-shell pistol. Ammunition type selected by voice
command: Standard, Armor Piercing, Ricochet, Incendiary, Hi-Ex,
Stun or Stumm Gas. Coded to a judges palm print and will explode
if fired by a non-judge. |
| Lawmaster |
The Judges'
computer controlled, heavily armed and armored bike. |
| Leaper |
A person
trying to commit suicide by jumping from a high building or
roadway. |
| Long
Walk |
An old
or weak Judge who honorably retires is given the options of
becoming a Judge Tutor as The Academy of Law, or taking the
Long Walk, to deliver Justice to the Cursed Earth or Undercity. |
| Meat
Wagon |
A Justice
Department vehicle, called in when corpses need to be picked
up. |
| Mo-Pad |
One of
the 18 million mobile homes, which constantly circle the Mega-City's
road network. They are in turn serviced by Mo-Banks, Mo-Libs,
and the like. |
| Munce |
Revolting
plant-derived synthetic paste, which can be refined to make
many different edible products. Mega-Cit One's most common food
stuff, and (in its foul raw state) the only known antidote to
Rad-fleas. |
| Mutie |
Slang for
mutants. |
| Nark |
Judges'
term for an informer. |
| Organ-Legging |
Illicit
trade in spare body parts, which is the basis for a number of
criminal rackets. |
| Perp |
Judges'
term for a criminal; contraction of perpetrator. Judges often
also use creep or punk when talking to the perp. |
| Psyker |
Judges'
term for a perp who uses Psi powers and is not a Psi-Judge.
This is strictly illegal and known as Psyking. |
| Resyk |
Huge recycling
plant that breaks down all of Mega-City One's rubbish (including
corpses!) into reusable components. |
| Riot
Foam |
Anti-riot
weapon which hardens when in contact with air; when sprayed
over a crowd it will render them immobile, until they can be
cut out by the Judges. |
| Scrawler |
Illegal
graffiti artist (usually a Juve or Punk). Hence Scrawling; also
Scrawl War, which is a contest between two graffiti artists
to see who can put their name in the most prominent spot. |
| Shuggy |
Twenty-second
Century version of pool, played on a 'hilly' table. A cross
between pool and golf. Often with huge side bets (illegal).
Usually played in special Shuggy Halls. |
| SJS |
The Special
Judicial Squad who judge the Judges, seeking out corruption
and lax Law-keeping; they answer only to the head of SJS and
the Chief Judge. |
| Sleep
Machine |
Device
which give a Judge a full nights sleep in only ten minutes. |
| Smokatorium |
A large
Block-sized building, which is the only place in Mega-City One
where tobacco smoking is legal. Special permits are required
for entrance. |
| Spont |
Spontaneous
confessor to other people's crimes; can be a great hindrance
to a Judge's investigations. |
| Stomm |
Legal expletive
used by Judges to reduce adrenalin in times of crisis. Not as
commonly used as Drokk. |
| Stumm
Gas |
Crowd control
weapon, similar to tear gas, used specifically by Judges. |
| Sus-an |
A form
of suspended animation. The ill and the dying are cryogenically
frozen until they can be cured. There are many commercial Sus-an
centers, the most famous being The Forever Towers, Home for
the Semi-Dead. See also The Vaults. |
| Tri-D |
Three dimensional
television, the main entertainment medium in Mega City One.
There were, at the last count, 312 Tri-D stations in Mega-City
One. |
| Umpty
Candy |
A hyper-addictive,
extra-sweet candy discovered by a sweet maker called Uncle Ump.
There is no cure for its addiction, and so it has been declared
illegal. Umpty Bagging is the illegal manufacture and sale of
Umpty Candy. |
| Undercity |
When it
came to redevelop the Old City, it was decided that the best
way was to simply concrete the whole area over and start again,
creating the Undercity, which is now inhabited by renegades,
mutants, deformed Troggies, and much worse. |
| The
Vaults |
Area underneath
each Section House where severely injured criminals are kept
in Sus-an until they can be cured, and made to serve
their rightful sentence. |
| Vid-Slug |
Small,
miniaturized video cassette; most books and newspapers come
like this, as do films, old Tri-D recordings, and so on. There
is a burgeoning trade in prohibited slugs, run by various underworld
racketeers. |
| Wall-hopper |
A mutant
or another outcast who tries to break back into the Mega-City,
especially through breaches in the wall caused in the Apocalypse
War. |
| Watching
Bay |
A Judges-only
are beside the roads where they can sit on their Lawmasters,
on the look-out for any trouble. |
| Weather
Congress |
Council which decide
daily what Mega-City One's weather will be; the information
is then relayed to a number of aerial weather stations hovering
over the city. |
| Zipper |
Hover version of
the Lawmaster bike, used extensively on Luna-1 moonbase. |
