This post was not my best, I admit. I needed to transition from the group as individual strangers to the start of a cohesive group, align their goals, and also get several important bits of information out for them to all know. This definitely was not the smoothest example of such a transition. I knew it was going to be fairly dialogue heavy, so I also didn't want to go heavy into exposition as I normally do because I felt it would stretch on for too long. Which, while not necessarily a bad thing, I don't think was what this post needed, either. 

Anyway. Just saying, I know the quality wasn't entirely up to snuff. Hopefully, the overall substance of the plot and arc makes up for it.