Uhm... well... sorry about that brief disappearance.<br/><br/>I'm back now at least. The better news is that we are ready to start.<br/><br/>Go ahead and sound off if you're still here.  I plan on posting the main game thread tomorrow.<br/><br/>Suffice to say regardless of whether your characters all know each other beforehand, they will end up meeting soon. There is to be a sort of public assembly on the day following our beginning. I'll be starting the main story with the night before the assembly, and we will go from there. Some of you may choose to be drawn into the plot then, and some may choose to wait until the assembly on the next day. That will be up to you.<br/><br/>I'm so very sorry for making you all wait so long for this, I do hope you'll find the wait was worthwhile.