Community:The Escapists' Haven
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The Escapists' Haven, formerly known as the Amphitheater, and before that as the Battle Arena, is the role-playing section of Zelda Universe. It often goes by the its original name, the Battle Arena, or "BA," which is now also the name of its main forum. It was revamped when the Temple skin was introduced to Zelda Universe on July 11, 2008. This revamp introduced the Village, which allowed for Out of Character threads to be made; something almost impossible to do before the revamp, with all the Out of Character threads being in the Battle Arena.
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Forums
Characters
This is the forum where role-players make characters and submit them to the approval process. These characters will be used in all of the other forums in the Escapists' Haven excluding The Village. This forum includes the Character Fiction sub-forum, where role-players write stories about their characters without any interaction in the work with the readers.
Battle Arena and The Crossroads
The role playing forums of the Escapists' Haven. The Battle Arena, sometimes referred to as the "BA", is the main role playing forum. The BA focuses on battle related role plays. The Crossroads, however, focus on more general role plays.
The Dome
The place where most role players go with their new characters after creation. This is the place where a character can be enrolled in a class, and a training thread can be made for them. The role player will accept various assignments from their teacher, and write about their character whilst fulfilling those assignments. Then the teacher, or one of their aides, will come and critique the student's writing, and ask him to change it for the better. The student will do this, and then the teacher (or helper) will write a post using their character, and give the student a new assignment.[1]
This process is then repeated until a character's individual graduation, at which time a new graduation thread for the character will be made. This is usually the character's last involvement with the dome, unless their creator becomes a teacher or teacher's helper and uses their character to role play with their students.
The Village
The place where all the out of character discussion is held. The thread with the most activity in here is the "OOC thread". This used to be one of the very few non-Council created discussion threads (this incarnation was created by a Council member, although some past incarnations weren't).
The Out of Character Thread
The main thread of the Escapists' Haven is the Out of Character thread. This is one of the few non-council member created discussion threads, although most incarnations are made by council members. The oldest one found dates 08/23/2004 through 07/21/2005.[2] The Out of Character thread is always in danger of having it's title changed, with one role player stating "It's part of the EH culture."[3] Most of the Out of Character threads were posted in the Battle Arena before The Village was made.[2] Now, since the Village is the only Escapists' Haven forum for out of character activity, it will be posted there.
The BA council
- Main article: B.A. Council (ZU)
The BA council was the main council of members for the Escapists' Haven. They approved characters, and could create homerooms and teach in the dome, if they wished. They were not moderators, contrary to some belief. There were not many BA council members, but, unlike moderators, one could request to become a BA council member. New council members were rare, however.
On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, a decision was made by the Moderaters of Zelda Universe to disband the BA council. All of the council related duties were taken over by the moderaters of The Escapists' Haven, which were, at the time, Ciroton and Altamira[4]. This caused much outrage and a good deal of spam to be created in the Village section of the Escapists' Haven. These led to a few bans and a few more temporary 'REVOLUTION' accounts. It was later revealed that this was an April Fool's Joke, and all bans, infractions, and warnings were lifted, and everything went back to normal within the EH.
References
- ↑ http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/the-dome/51036-the-dome-information.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/search.php?searchid=1900798&pp=25
- ↑ http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/2511979-post13.html
- ↑ http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/the-village/91561-official-notice-disbanning-the-council.html
