I think good! :) 

Ch(Y)all is a marvelous character and the slavers/country-wide issues are a nice setting into which the story can remain close to the hearth or foray into the larger, more political arena. Verra nice. 

Now then - just before is fine, or integrate that into the first posts as we set up for the first meeting. I'm all for allowing things to happen as they need to. Would you care to start and I shall follow your lead? Or would you rather I start and you can follow? I'd suspect we'd begin either at the farmer's, either with or without Mr. Autenberry in attendance. NPCs are glorious and there needn't be immediate interaction, nor does there have to be a break, depending on how things go. It's all the same to me.