First post is up. Just have your characters walk into the Water of Life; the prologue is that Emelina Ward identified them by auras and the meeting was arranged because of the pressing need for safety in numbers and organization in secret. 

PS: If you're dropping out, do it now so I can grab people on the fly or we can simply proceed with the RP with small numbers. My Co-GM dropped out (obviously, but she has stuff going on in her real life. :)) so I let Paul (Reonen) put in his Alicia character. If AnnaBeth does roll back in, she can always just add a character.

soba: She can always text. ;)