Marc clearly was the one to make decisions... Daria watched as he handily dealt with Lisa's enthusiastic preference for a sorceress.  It looked like there was some leeway in the rules, with compromise - but it was her choice.  OK... she also noticed that Paco said Charisma was the most important, and the red-head quickly looked down at her own sheet again.   10 ... well, right in the middle of her scores, that hopefully would be enough.  No doubt its importance would become apparent, later.<br/><br/>It sounded like lowering and raising stats was something pretty normal... but probably her character was fine as-is.  Nobody had said anything to the contrary.  So she relaxed, content, and finding this pretty interesting so far.<br/><br/>She was also checking out the illustrations on the boards Marc had tilted up to hide his portion of the table... she might get some ideas there for her own sketches.  Though now she was thinking of trying a sorceress, with just the same pose that Lisa was currently showing off.  Daria noted how Lisa stood, the line her arms made - though obviously for her future artwork, she'd need some appropriate costume.  A long robe?<br/><br/>There was something about spells - not her problem, apparently, and it sounded like Paco was pretty sure how Lisa should  use those.  She wouldn't have guessed that "sleep" was so good, though maybe better than the other options.  Much better to chop off heads, she thought.<br/><br/>There was some other stuff  she had no idea about ... half-elf, she could sort of guess, but "gish" gave her no clues.  But it didn't matter, because now Josh apparently wanted to be a monk.  Clearly there was something more to that than Daria understood, but she could let it all slide.  She may not understand much... but she felt like she was one of the plaeyrs, here, and that was actually kind of gratifying.  Josh seemed... not so different than she was, and that made everything easier.  Even though he obviously knew how to play.<br/><br/><strong>"Alignment?  Oh.  Right, definitely Lawful, then."</strong>She had seen something on the sheet... right, a space for that, and she put it in.  She'd be the same as Josh, and that made sense... "neutral" didn't sound bad, so Paco's character obviously wouldn't be a problem for them.<br/><br/><strong>"Leather armour..."</strong>she had noticed the big section for equipment earlier, and jotted things down quickly & neatly.<strong>"OK... I think... a two-handed weapon sounds good.  Is a sword two-handed?"</strong>She made a shortened version of her "chopping" motion.  She also remembered how Paco had said she wouldn't be a sharpshooter, so a bow sounded like a bad choice.<strong>"Three javelins then."</strong>She wrote that down, followed by "5 gold".<br/><br/><br/>She leaned back a little, and listened as Marc laid out a bit of the background.  The setting ... she could sort of imagine.  She looked a little surprised, over at Paco - why was he playing someone so ugly?  That seemed a strange choice.  But there was a choice to make, apparently, and it seemed like nobody was rushing to make suggestions.<br/><br/>So...<strong>"Umm.  The four of us, I guess we're not childhood friends?"</strong>She glanced around.<strong>"Since Josh invited us... maybe that's what happened.  Josh found Lisa and me..."</strong>she pointed appropriately<strong>"maybe in a library?  No, that doesn't make sense.  In... a bar or something.  He invited us to come out and... I don't know.   Maybe he has a job of some sort, and can't manage it all by himself?  Maybe... to help the barony somehow.  To stop some robbers."</strong>She didn't know much, but she knew how Lawful had been described, and that seemed to fit.<br/><br/><strong>"And Paco is... well, it could be the same.  Josh comes in looking for help, and we're just... the three people that look like we might be helpful.  Is that OK?"</strong>