EXPERIENCE POINT GUIDE
Experience Points are necessary for increasing your stats and purchasing unique features that need to be earned. You earn EXP by roleplaying and partaking in various activities and events in Beyond the Birdcage. In addition, there are a few various out-of-character ways that you can earn experience.

The EXP Request form is found here. It is your responsibility to request EXP to be added to your total, so make sure you're familiar with what can give you EXP!

Note if it is found that you are purposely doing the same actions over and over for EXP, angry crows will be sent after you.

HOW TO EARN
+1 Point
- make a roleplay post (these points are added automatically)
- be rejected as a mate
- get called a "featherduster" by a rival during a fight
- insult a higher ranked bird and laugh in the face of danger
- for each trinket resource in an affiliation's stockpile at the end of a season

+2 Points
- carry out an action successfully (healing, investigating, raiding, scavenging/hunting)
- meet a new character
- for each herb and food resource in an affiliation's stockpile at the end of a season

+3 Points
- carry out an action successfully (healing, investigating, raiding, scavenging/hunting)
- venture into The Birdcage
- enter a fight with an individual with 10 or more STR points above you
- lose a fight
- carry out a task given by a higher ranked bird (applicable to affiliations)
- participate in affiliation meeting
- finish a thread (20 or less posts)
- investigate and discover a new area

+5 Points
- trespass onto rival territory (for rival affiliations and guarded territories)
- find a mate
- lead a coordinated raid
- be maimed in a fight
- explore a previously unexplored location
- finish a thread (21 or more posts)

+7 Points
- be hatched from an egg
- mate with a rival (applicable to rival affiliations)

+10 Points
- join an affiliation

+15 Points
- have offspring
- win a fight (not predetermined)
- found an affilation
- finish a thread (50 or more posts)

+20 Points
- kill an opponent in battle
- judge a fight

+??? Points
- participate in site-wide events
- uncovering plot points

HOW TO SPEND
To request to buy something with your EXP, go here.
Keep in mind that members cannot pool their EXP or give their EXP to any members in any other way. The object in which members are allowed to pool EXP is for Raid Immunity for an affiliation.
CHARACTER TECHNICALITIES
These additions apply to creating new characters.
4th Character Slot: 150 EXP
Permission to create your fourth character.

Tier 3 Character: ??? EXP
The next character you create can be a tier 3 character (prices listed on species page)

Species of Choice: 350 EXP
The next character you create can be any species of choice. (Staff get to determine base stats, which will be as high as tier 3 stats.)


STATS
Purchases regarding and affecting your character's stats. Stat increases can only be added to characters who has the EXP.
Stat Increase: 15 EXP
Increases stat of choice by +1.

Tertiary Trait: 200 EXP
Add a tertiary trait of your choice.

IMMUNITIES
These allow you to opt out of certain events.
Challenge Immunity: 100 EXP
Secures your rank for 2 seasons.

Fight Immunity: 100 EXP
Opt out of fights for 2 seaons.

Raid Immunity: 200 EXP
For your affiliation. Secures the affiliation from raids for 1 season.

CUSTOMIZATION
These additions apply to customization of characters.
* This appearance changes cannot be purchased for current characters due to dramatic appearance change.
Albinsm:* 100 EXP
An all-white character, or reduced dark pigment.

Melanism:* 150 EXP
An all-black character, or reduced light pigment.

Pied:* 150 EXP
Pied coloration refers to patches of white on a normal colored body.

Mottled:* 200 EXP
Flecks of a different color all over, similar to a dalmation but normal colors are still present under spots.

Unique Eye Color:* 100 EXP
Your choice of purple, black, white, or gray eyes.

Heterochromia:* 200 EXP
Two eyes of different colors. These cannot be unique eye colors unless that has been purchased also.

Leg Band: 100 EXP
Give your character a stylish leg band.

Falconry Hood: 150 EXP
If you've ever felt the need to not see, why not get a falconry hood? They're all the rage.

Mustache: 500 EXP
Who doesn't want a moustache?

AFFLICTIONS
Tired of waiting for a random event for an affliction? Buy one!
* This affliction cannot be purchased for current characters due to dramatic appearance change.
There are no known afflictions!

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