[url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/16391/posts/ic]And off we go[/url]. This is a disproportionately long post, and not to be taken as the standard quantity of text per contribution. For getting the initial part done, I'm using a lot of monologue. Sorry for not giving you guys the chance to properly introduce yourself IC (yet), that's all part of the flight plan.
Also, I'll seperate NPC-ish parts of my posts and IC-ish parts as done here for now - might come up with a better solution at some point.