Joining Rules:
To join, fill out the form and e-mail it to me. (it's that simple, folks!) Only ONE CHARACTER is allowed per e-mail address. Once you have joined, you should be on the members' page within a week.
Forming Alliances:
You can go it alone in this world or you can form an alliance with as many other E-CA Members as you want. To do this, e-mail a horse on the Members' List and ask if you can form an alliance with them. If they agree, then you've got a deal! However, remember if you're in a Members' Alliance you must JOINT-DO your Adventures.
The Game:
The goal of this "game" is to explore your world, send me what you have done, and eventually escape this universe to find your old self. (Only if you want to, of course. You're welcome to stay here forever.)
To do an Adventure, choose one of the worlds from "Explore Your World" (this will be up later), develop a conflict, solve it and send it in to me. It must conform with the rules of that particular world, and beating it must help you advance in some way. Other than that, you are free to basically do what you want in an Adventure. Once I approve your Adventure, it goes down on my personal record (NOT the Members' Page) as a tally. Remember, if you are in an alliance with other members, you must figure out how to do your Adventures together!
Beating the Game:
Once you do ten Adventures (and get ten tallies,) you have the option of fighting the big bad guy, which gives you the chance to escape. Or, you can stick around for a while to earn Bonus Stars (see below.)
Fighting the Bad Guy and Escaping:
If you choose to fight and try to escape, e-mail me with the subject being "Accept." I will then e-mail you a final "Project" of sorts-- I will give you a predicament dealing with the Bad Guy and you must get out of it in a CREATIVE way. It must be at least 3 paragraps long (adhere to all the old English class rules on paragraphs) and I expect QUALITY. If I like what your Project is, then you escape and all of your stats are immortalized in the E-CA Hall of Fame. Pretty cool, huh?
You cannot re-enter the portal as the character you just beat the game with, the portal (and any other ways of getting in) are supposed to be closed to your Character A forever. You CAN, however, re-join and play again as Character B. You can use the same e-mail address as last time, I don't care. Just e-mail me your new joining form. And after you beat the game again, you can come back as Character C, than D, etc. Until you get bored of my club, find a hobby, or move out.
Creating Species:
You currently share your world with a certain number of predator species (whose stats can be found in "Explore Your World.") These other creatures are here for you to toy with in Adventures. Now, you have the opportunity to help me make new species whenever you want. E-mail me a big long thing describing every little detail about this new predator and send it in. If it's way good, you get a Bonus Star (see below) and your species is introduced. If it's not good it will shribble up and go extinct. NOTE: Creating Species does NOT count as an Adventure! You can mess with them in later Adventures, though.
For Creating a Species that we use, (or doing something else that for some reason is REALLY helpful,) you get a star (*) by your name, so it looks like this: *Horse Name. This goes down on the Members' List and also on the E-CA Hall of Fame when you beat the game. Besides making you look good, more members will want to form allliances with you (which you an accept or turn down because if you're so smart you can help all the average people get far, or so everybody assumes. You can get up to two stars by your name. You can also get a plus (+) by your name by sending in over 15 poems to the Library. (30 will get your two plusses. No more.) This, of course, resets when you start as a new character. Overall, the max level you can get your name spiffed up is:
**++Horse Name
Doesn't that just make you feel special?
P..S. Just for the record, Alliances cannot create species or send in poems, those are individual things. I mean, if you do those things as an Alliance it would be an awful waste of time because only one person would get the credit. If two or more new species are really similar, neither will get accepted.