Welcome.  Those of you who already have had characters accepted, go ahead and introduce them here.  For purposes of this thread, let's limit the amount of information disclosed about characters to what the others could reasonably be expected to know about each, based on the amount of time you will have spent working together as a group (which is totally up to you guys).  As far as player introductions go, I'll assume that most of you know each other around here, but if not, a few words could go a long way in breaking the ice.<br/><br/>I'll start.  Since I will be running EVERYONE but a primary protagonist, I'll limit my introduction to talking about me, your lead author on this merry little trip.  Jasmine's me Internet handle, real name classified but rumored to bear somehow on produce.  Some know me as "Beatroot," but I much prefer answering to "Goddess," but I'll leave that entirely up to you.  I'm a 32* year old office manager from sunny, sunny Florida, divorced, two kids and an overactive imagination and healthy libido that gets its satisfaction these days from a battery operated friend and sites such as Elliquiy, which stimulates the erotic regions of my brain quite deliciously.<br/><br/>The plot of this story will be lifted from a novel I've written but left unpublished.  Basically, it's a Cthulhu story with the serial numbers filed off the Unspeakable Entities<sup>TM</sup>, but I give you my solemn word that I will not try to shoehorn you into the plot as I originally wrote it.  I want you to feel involved and active in determining the direction the story goes, even as I'll be trying my very best to cohere the six or seven competing voices into a single narrative.  This is your story too, and you'll get out of it what you put into it, so enjoy, have fun, challenge me in new and unique ways, and ignore the man behind the curtain!<br/><br/>If you have problems, with the pacing of the story, with the believability of the extras, with the plot and direction or anything I decree happens to your characters, I would much, much prefer to speak about it with you, either in an OOC thread or over PMs, than let it go unaddressed and make anyone feel resentment.  Since this is freeform, your confidence in me is imperative.  You are going to have to give me a vast degree of control over *YOUR* characters to make the story work, and trust me not abuse that control.<br/><br/>So I'll leave this soap box, and ask who wants to be first to show us what you've come up with for a character.<br/><br/><br/><sup>*32 in this case not representing the integer between 31 and 33, but an imaginary number with a fixed, constant value reflecting a point between halfway between youth and experience.</sup>