Not late, it's today, thanks!<br/><br/>I got the links put in on the first thread for Enastril and Yesqwyn.  All we need now is Eferhild.  I haven't gotten characters from the other prospective players yet, but what we have right now is six plus mine, who is a DM's character and basically an NPC, although from an RP perspective has a lot of role to play as far as plot development.<br/><br/>I want everyone now to think of possible connections with one anothers' characters.  Not everyone has to know everyone, and in fact, for most of you that will be impossible.  The only character who will be familiar with<em>everyone </em>is Kirien, but that is by design.  Here's what I know so far:<br/><strong><br/>Brennisen:</strong>Lives in Beratana, has known Kirien for 3 years, has met Enastril<br/><strong>Enastril:</strong>Lives in Highfolk, met Kirien decades ago in a library in Olve Minrith, royal city of the Vesve Kingdom, has corresponded with her for years, came to Greyhawk for arcane research, went to Beratana to discuss an unwelcome marriage proposal by his parents, has met Brennisen.<br/><strong>Pansy:</strong>Possibly lives in Greyhawk, perhaps travels to the Idle Boar for fun now and then.<br/><strong>Melan:</strong>Possibly has traveled to the Wild Coast town of Narwell as part of an embassy to discuss it joining the territory of Greyhawk, possibly passing through Two Fords and the Idle Boar on the way back.<br/><strong>Yesqwyn:</strong>Lives in Greyhawk, friend of Kirien, meet at the Idle Boar at regular intervals to share news of their lives.<br/><strong>Eferhild:</strong>From Gran March, west of Keoland...perhaps came east through the Principality of Ulek and the Welkwood looking for adventure and employment.<br/><br/>At present, I see some possible connections:<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Pansy and Yesqwyn, if they are both from Greyhawk, can be acquaintances or friends.  Kirien would then know Pansy as well from all three getting together at the Idle Boar.  </li><li>Eferhild may have met or fallen in with Melan's group on the road, on it's way back from Narwell.  Both are human women and warriors, and since Melan started out from humble beginnings, she may have clicked with Eferhild.  Fortune may dictate that their small group reaches the Idle Boar at the same time as the rest of the characters.</li><li>If Kirien has met Pansy and Yesqwyn for some time at the Idle Boar, then Pansy and Yesqwyn would know Brennisen as well.  Enastril, having just come to visit Kirien for the first time in Beratana, would likely not know either of them yet.</li></ul><br/>Kirien, Brennisen, and Enastril were already on their way to the Idle Boar, and will arrive probably a handful of minutes before the rest.  Pansy and Yesqwyn get there at the same time as Melan and the ambassadors with Eferhild, and with the inn being crowded, Pansy and Yesqwyn see the two human women and invite them to the table where they see Kirien, Brennisen, and Enastril.  Though I said I wanted Kirien to know all the other characters, at the moment she doesn't know Melan and Eferhild.  Maybe we can work with that.  If Melan has spent time with the Furyondyan ambassador in Greyhawk, she might have met Yesqwyn and/or Pansy, and through them come to the Idle Boar and met Kirien before.  That still leaves Eferhild as a stranger to Kirien...but that's a tough connection to create.  Gran March is off the beaten path, and Kirien has never been there before.  At Eferhild's age, she's unlikely to have ever been to the Gnarley Forest in the last three years since Kirien has lived there.<br/><br/>Now we have all seven at the same spot, and the initial RP can take place!<br/><br/>I want everyone to take this next part under consideration, as it will affect your first posts.  Each of your characters will be in possession of a piece of metal, seemingly indestructible, and of an irregular shape, about the size of a large dice.  Each of your characters will have come by it in some strange and unexpected way, and some of your characters may have even received it some time ago.  It could have been passed down to you by a family member, or they could have gotten it in the last couple days.  For Kirien, Melan, and Pansy, their pieces also have some kind of reddish finish on parts of their piece--like an anodized coating--as well as a raised, inverted 'V' on the side with the coating.  All of you are free to create the way your character came by this piece of unknown metal.  The reason for this will be revealed during the meeting in the Idle Boar.<br/><br/>Feel free to post any questions here, or message me if that's better for you.  Let's get these connections ironed out, and then we can move on!