[quote=@Lugia]
If we're talking about what to focus on, I'd say character growth/development... I mean, there's only six main characters (half of whom are basically connected at the hip to the other half), so we might as well learn to write them well.
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Da this is what I think would be best, part of the group is bonded only by the fact that they are in a strange world and (at first) want to return to familiar soil, but the journey will be long and we will have to understand our environment until then but most of all we need to know the people and things we will be traveling with. We have the stage set and we have the actors now we need to define the characters they will portrait and the story they will be in.