This post is just a disclaimer about the upcoming answers. First, I completely adore all the debate; it excites me, and in all honesty, brings up some questions that I hadn't pondered. Thank you all. I hope the following post clears things up, and if anything only increases debate. Already, the RP, as a collaborative writing, is beginning, and that is a beautiful thing to behold, a mark of a (hopefully-to-be) successful RP experience.

Second, I guess I did a good job in making the system general enough to provide some boundaries in which the players can fill in. I'm very humbled by this.

Finally, the answers are lengthy. Beware.