Editing Abbreviations and Terms - Alphabetical (section)

== S ==

* '''S''' '''SE''' '''SW''' - South (South-east, South-west); Down (Down-right, Down-left) on the map.
* '''S>.....''' - Selling; usually found in catshop names.  Note: The dots are where item name(s) would be.
* '''SC''' - Spiritual Cultivation, the quests you have to take every 10 levels or so to unlock the ability to learn new skills.  They show up in your quest list in gold colored text.
* '''Shard''' - Another name for a soulgem.
* '''Sharding''' - To put shards into empty sockets on armor or weapons.  The shard's grade cannot be higher than the grade of the gear being sharded.
* '''Sin''' - [[Assassin]].
* '''Small Pets''' - An animal following the player around.  While this does not directly influence the player or monsters, it is cool to have around, especially the rare ones.  Usually called "all class pets" or "baby pets".  See [[Baby Pet Guide]] for details.
* '''Socket''' - A feature of some armor and weapons that allows you to add soulgems (a.k.a. "shards") to the gear in order to improve its stats.  Armor can have up to four sockets and weapons can have up to two sockets.  See [[Socketing]] for details.
* '''SoF''' - Source of Force, purchase 9999 of these and you can turn them in for a Hercules Pet Egg Ticket, which can be used by [[venomancer]]s to get a [[Baby Hercules]] pet.  100 SoF and 100 Phoenix Feathers (used to get a [[Baby Blazing Phoenix]]) can be exchanged for each other as well.
* '''SoT''' - [[Seat of Torment]], one of the two FB99 instances, the other being [[Abaddon]]; also ''Scroll of Tome'', a pack item that can be traded for the highest level tomes available (such as ''Love: Up and Down'').
* '''Soulgem''' - An item that can be added to an empty socket on armor or weapons to improve its stats and possibly add a glow.  The ten types of soulgems are Citrine, Turquoise, Garnet, Sapphire, Amber, Alabaster, Aquamarine, Amethyst, Ruby, and Topaz.  See [[Socketing]] for details on how those soulgems affect the gear that they're added to.
* '''SQ''' - Squad.
* '''Spawn''' - The location or process of monsters appearing when they are created in the world.
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* '''SP''' - Usually Spirit Points, used to learn new skills.  SP are gained from killing monsters and doing quests, but unlike EXP you do not lose SP upon death.  SP may also be short for [[Secret Passage]], the location of FB29, Qingzi, Dismal Shade, and Silver Frost.
* '''Spark''' - An additional 100 chi beyond what is shown in the chi bar, shown to the right of the bar.  You gain one spark at at levels 29, 59, and 89.  May also refer to the Spark Burst, Spark Burst+, or Celestial/Demonic Eruption skills, which use up one, two, or three sparks, respectively, and cause your attacks to do extra damage while providing brief invulnerability (i.e. "Don't spark or you'll steal aggro.").  May also refer to the [[venomancer]] Lending Hand skill, which allows the venomancer to transfer a spark to another player (i.e. "Spark me, please.").
* '''Squishy''' - Characters that are easily killed or being in a state where you are easily killed.  Usually those with low HP and low physical defense.
* '''SS''' - Sacrificial Strike, a weapon add-on that gives you a additional chance with each hit to do x2 damage at the cost of 5% HP.  See [[Gear Addons]].
* '''Stack''' - To put several copies of something (usually a heal-over-time or damage-over-time) on at once, or a number of identical items placed in a single inventory slot, to conserve space.  Only certain items can be stacked.
* '''Sticky''' - A "sticky" forum thread is one that stays at the top of the forum, even above other newer threads.  This is generally done only for important threads, so you should at least give the stickied threads a glance.
* '''Str''' - Strength, one of your four primary statistics.
* '''Sub''' - Usually means an Ultimate Substance.
* '''Subber''' - The person who pays the Ultimate Substances used to enter some areas of [[Twilight Temple]].
* '''SZ''' - Safe Zone, an area where PKing isn't possible, such as a city or town.  An "Entering Safe Zone" or "Leaving Safe Zone" message will appear in the chat window when moving in or out of SZs.