<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Were there any presumptions about whether the characters came from the same place(s) or faction(s), or know each other to begin with?  Or to put it another way, should we anticipate a big "introductions and mutual suspicion" sort of phase?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This is mostly up to you guys and your preferences.  I expect that some of you will be from the same faction, but not all of you.  And a little mutual suspicion is a natural thing given your tasks and the circumstances into which you have fallen.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">This seems to suggest there will not be any aliens or other non-humanoid encounters.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This is incorrect.  There are plenty of those running amok.  You just won't be having sex with anything that can't pass for human.  (This may be negotiable--the game can be moved.)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also that any bondage or d/s will be pretty clearly consensual.  Is that actually the intent?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yes.  Non-con sex squicks out the GM.  This is<em>not</em>negotiable: read my Preferences.<br/><br/>This is not the same as saying that you won't get kidnapped, restrained, or otherwise manhandled if the plot requires it or circumstances permit.  Just that on-screen rape is not part of the package.<br/><br/>Blythe, I would generally rule that "Private Eye" includes the ability to case a location.  You may choose another Side Trait if you wish...or you may keep it, and simply be really, really good at casing joints.  Your call.  :-)