Since it's been close to 2 weeks without any activity from two of my four prospective players, MeTheMe and jesterz, I've decided that I'm going to go ahead and start the game with the two players who have given me complete character sheets as the starting protagonists. I'm going to be making the opening post of the game thread this evening (4 or 5 hours for me); if I don't have any more character sheets by then, the other prospective players will have their characters meet up with the party in-game. To cover up missing party roles and balance things out, I'll be having the characters accompanied by NPC allies in battles until more player characters arrive.