Alright, looks like we're all here.  Soon, tomorrow probably, I'll start off the adventure and have the PCs meet with the city council.  If you're not already there, try to get your PC to the city hall.<br/><br/>Also, another quick exercise for all of you, if you don't mind.  Go and check out everyone's backstory.  Pick one NPC from someone else's backstory, and explain how you know him or her.  This can be a direct connection (i.e. so-and-so was my mentor) or an indirect one (i.e. so-and-so was my brother's mentor), but I want most of the group to have some sort of connection with each other, even if they don't recognize anyone else at first.  I know this might be a bit harder for some of the characters to justify knowing someone else, so if you can't think of something plausible don't worry about it.