The Players

Hello everyone!

This message has a couple purposes. The first is to test everything. I have added you all to the subscribers of this blog. You will now get emailed whenever someone posts or comments on the blog. I have set the blog to only allow those of us who can write in it to read it as well, so you don't need to worry about posting personal info or whether or not someone will find out that you are a big nerd. :)

The second reason I am posting is to repost the info I sent you today in an email so that this blog can be the sole source of information for the adventure. So here is the email sent today, edited into post form:

All 6 of you are now added to the blog. You may not have accepted the invitation, but it has been sent. Please do not invite anyone else to join the game. 6 is a good number, but any bigger than that, and I am not really sure that I would know what I'm doing. :D This is my first time REALLY DM'ing a game, so I hope you will bear with me if there are any things that don't go completely smoothly. Also, if you have any suggestions or requests, please let me know and I will see what I can do to accommodate you.

That said, the 6 of you are:

• Nick Page (friend from PLU, living in Western WA)
• Alan Hoffman (Nick's friend, living in Western Washington)
• Whittaker Harpel (friend from PLU, living in Eastern Washington)
• Andy Musson (friend from PLU and my sister's fiance, living in Western Washington)
• Evan Sweeney (friend from Montana, living in Southwestern Montana)
• Doug Rakel (Evan's friend, I assume living in Southwestern Montana)

Because there are 6 of you, and several of you have odd schedules, I am uncertain if we will regularly be able skype chat or anything along those lines. I will be online most weekdays for most of the day, as my job leaves me with a good deal of time to type and work on things of this nature. I mean, as long as I am waiting for my computer anyway, I might as well get something productive done. :D I propose that the game officially start on Monday, October 12th. I will post the "prologue" up long before then, so that you all know what's going on in the world, and then that morning, I will post the starting setting and such. You are expected to post at least once every weekday. I realize that people do things on the weekends, and

From that point, you all get to start having ownership in the world beyond just having characters that live there. Because this is a Play by Post game, it will be slightly different than usual. I have laid out the official rules as they stand on this blog and I ask that you follow them and just try to have fun. I will be working on a better way to share files than I currently have, and am investigating dropbox, so that we can easily share slightly larger files without me filling up all of your inboxes. :) Other than that, good luck creating your characters if you haven't done so, and please let me see them before the 12th.

-Dan