Them Dang Other Things (OOC )
So we are about good to go as soon as everyone has a character idea. Please post in Where the Story Goes where you'd like to start. This does not have to be one group, although they will likely meet later on. And while those who travel together already know each other at least from sight at the start of the story, each character will get their own thread for time jumps to the past as to how you got there. If here is an idea you want to write out about that, or you want to add a small adventure that has happened before you met the group, you put a link to the respective post at the end of a post in the IC thread for your group. This way, there is no need to puzzle out from individual threads where the single post or posts fit into the story.
Every now and then, the threads will be cleaned up and the story so far, from all groups, will go into one thread so it makes a coherent story. Due to this, if someone goes AWOL or drops out, their characters will stay as NPCs as to such a time we can fade them out (or not if the group wants to continue running them).