The Duty (Play to Live: Book # 3) (35 page)

[i]
The Deep:
this line is from one of the numerous Russian gaming fanfic poems about the Deep, a near-future virtual reality featured in several urban fantasy novels by Sergey Lukianenko.

[ii]
Kvass:
a traditional Russian non-alcoholic fizzy drink

[iii]
Kuzka's mother:
from the Russian expression "to show Kuzka's mother to someone," meaning "to teach someone a good lesson". The phrase became notorious in the West after Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev used it in his 1959 conversation with Richard Nixon.

[iv]
Sources:

The Daedalus Project. The Psychology of MMORPGs

alteredgamer.com

mmoglossary.com

omegaknights.com

mmoterms.com