Hello everyone,

Chapter 1 is planned to begin in the next few days, so I just wanted to talk a bit about what you all can expect for the next segment of the RP. We will be picking up the story in the city of Cero, capital of T'sarae, where our characters will congregate as a warband for the first time since initially splitting up during the prologue. They have all recently arrived in the city by train, with certain groups of people arriving earlier than others. Here's the order of arrival, from first to last (Rodion has been in Cero for a few days already): The Lanostre Group (Astraea, Tatiana and Galahad), the Magnagrad Group (Viveca, Stina, Hassan, Ragnar), the Omestris Group (Oren, Ziotea) and finally, Ilya arrived last by himself. 

In Cero, our characters will have about a day to themselves before we depart for the east aboard the two steam arks, the Karamzina and the Grace. On this day, our characters will be free to interact with each other and to basically do whatever they want. There will be a ceremony in the evening where we will all be formally introduced to the support force of naval crewmen and Secular Army soldiers who will accompany Warband Phoenix during the journey. So, until the ceremony later on, we'll be able to do as we wish. You can take this time to meet up with other characters, explore the city or the arks, ect. If you're not sure what to do, make something up! I've always been open to you all taking the story in new directions, and I'll certainly pick up the slack on my end to work with you in creating something fun and interesting for your characters to do.

Feel free to plot amongst yourselves any reunions your characters might have. I know a few of you have plans already, but many others don't. So, to start off the planning...

I think Ragnar would definitely want to meet with Galahad [@vietmyke] and Tatiana [@OppositionJ]. He is desperately curious about what happened in Lanostre, and is eager to tell them about his own adventures too.


If there are any questions, please let me know! 

[@deathbringer] [@sisyphus] [@draken] [@drakey]

I know you guys haven't been around for a while, and I'm not sure if you'll even see this post, but you're still welcome to join us. Now would be a really good time to jump back in, now that we're kind of clearing the slate and starting from zero again. We can always catch any of you to the developments you've missed.