Right so! I want everyone to come up with one event that happened during a recent adventure that the whole party experienced.
This could be as big as an adventure they did together (e.g. scouting the tomb of a Naga Queen), working for a specific group (e.g when the Regiment of Khan paid them to scout the nearby forest) a specific trap or puzzle they solved - or didn't (e.g that time we all had to run from a giant boulder and Jhimas held up the gate for us to get by), a moral choice they had to make ( do we purify the poisoned well water that prevents disease to stop people becoming partial plant-creatures, thus killing the terminal good-hearted orphans?) some cool magical thing they experienced together (traversing the magic storm and gravity stopped working so we got to swim through the sky) or even just bonding during a campfire moment or attending Carl the Adventurer's retirement do.
No need to overthink it, it's just for fun, grounding the party in the world a bit more and having some things you can reference if you want to.
Then I want each player to come up with an individual interaction with the character directly below them on the rooster.
So for example, Lauder will recall a moment between Aurix and Jhimas, Duskshine will recall a moment between Jhimas and Lauk, and then whoever ends up last on the CS tab will recall a moment with their character and Aurix.
This is just for fun and you don't have to do a full collab or anything like that, just a couple lines even would do. Feel free to discuss ideas if you wish, but this should just be a small exercise to build some rapport.
Also feel free to develop relationships or flesh out how/when you joined the party
if you want to. I'm not holding you at gunpoint, and if we go into IC without anything hashed out yet I can come up with a reason you guys are all together without knowing each other that well.
Anyway, sheets are coming together nicely. Thankyou for your patience so far, everyone. Won't be long till we get this show on the road ;D