I'll let the players hash out the glue used, although I had first considered the friends from elementary school as the most likely when I had the idea. It gives them a strong foundation as they grew up together and makes them more trusting of each other via a sort of baptism by fire, so to speak. there will probably be things that link individual characters to one another, but there are a lot of possibilities.<br/><br/>I think that in my mind, this really would seem like the last summer, there's one or two getting old enough to go off to college next yer (1956) and others will probably find that they are being pressured more into other things. Again, this is up to the players but I'm more inclined to this concept. It may not be spoken, but perhaps in the back of some of their minds. Sort of "This is the time!" to do those things that have been held back for whatever reason or they just want to take the summer for all it's worth. lol