[quote=@CondorTalon]
1. Can I join still?[/quote]
It's always accepting, so yep

[quote]2. Hard cap on characters?[/quote]
Nope

[quote]3. Has anything of note happened yet? If so, is there a short summary I could get?
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Honestly, not much (unfortunately). All the students and teachers waited out in a field for a pretty long time waiting for the Institute to be revealed, then it was finally revealed to be invisible and it opened up for everyone to explore immediately after that. Right now I'm trying to organize all the first year students to play a game of capture the flag, but since I just started doing that an hour ago, nothing has happened with that yet