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Provide a summery. 

Like a short, bullet point summery of events and key facts. They can read into more detail but the summery will mean they can least geta  quick working version of RP and what's in the future etc. 
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I use the 0th post in the IC for this on my RP's (once they've got far enough to make it worth it) 
And the 0th post in the Chars tab is a roster of all the current characters and important NPCs