Sessha and I need a little time to decide what we're going to do to start off here.  We were originally planning for our characters to already know each other from a meeting similar to the one they had in the previous SAO RPG as well as some time in a party together.  Starting from day one complicates things a bit though.  We might try to play out the events of our characters meeting again then join up with the main group or we might change our approach.  With luck we'll get a course of action worked out quickly so we won't hold things up very long.