ORGANIZATION: Eccentric Wizards Club MEMBERSHIP: All wizards who appreciate the weirder things in life. Wizards who enjoy new, exciting, innovatative, sometimes strange, sometimes different, sometimes nutty things belong to this club. The club's motto is "There are no bad ideas!" With this motto, a member must accept everything and never critize others. This is why the more hard-core wizard types ridicule the club for its haphazard therories, crazy spells, useless items, and bad-taste manipulation of the fine art of magic craft. Even with this criticism, the club manages to have a large membership, which can produce useful things that their critics end-up using. NEW MEMBER REQUIREMENTS: A new member must pay an entrance fee of 1000 sp. Additionally, the prospective member must demonstrate an active interest of eccentibilty to the Membership Board. This pledge can be research into a strange magic item or spell, a collection of pecuilir things, a speech of insanity, etc. One prospective member built a magical marshmellow castle guarded by marshmellow golems because he believes that marshmellow is the fifth element. In fact, he has over 1,000 books, most written by him, to prove his point. The Membership Board accepted his pledge for membership immediately. ANNUAL DUES: A due of 100 sp is collected annually. This due will cover use of the clubs facilities. A member must also annually report on a current project he is working on and it must be innovated, different, and wacko. If not the membership may be revoked. BENEFITS: The organization collects strange and unusual things: items, spells, documents, information, etc.. These things are made avaiable to the members through auctions, the catalog, library, word-of-mouth, etc.. The club is spread throughout Oerth through chapters. Each chapter has a library, meeting hall, museum, and laboratories for research. As long as a menber pays his dues, the facility is open to him. The club offers grants and scholarships to projects it feels will be of great benefit. A wizard may apply for these and could get a nice sum of money for his studies. Every year the club sends its members The Eccentric Wizard Club's Wish Catalog, which contains items that the wizard can purchase. New members receive a introductory kit. First, the new member gets an official membership ring. This ring allows its members free access to any of the chapters located throughout the continent. The kit also contains a book, There Are No Bad Ideas: EWC Handbook, which contains an introduction to the organization (history, purpose, alumni, etc.), rules of the organization (membership, dues, meetings, board, etc.), and stories of its innovation. The new member also receives a complimentary six-pack of cans containing Pepsi, a bubbly drink the members constantly drink; a small horseshoe that attracts metal; a collection of colored doughs that are fun to play with; thin coiled wire that walks down stairs; and a amulet that changes color when the mood of the wearer changes.