I'll get through peoples characters in the next day or so.<br/><br/>Story stuff isn't essential right now, but is useful, as the characters should have goals of their own. The first story is here to introduce the characters to each others, and set the scene for more to come. Playing in someone else's story should still give a character XP though, and if the group decides to work together on a particular quest, that's part of the work already done in coming up with the next story.<br/><br/>Which isn't to say that there couldn't be complications, and the crossing of another persons story along the way, as well as random 'sidequest' events.