@Jay, This early the creation of a new creature only takes a few posts, so waiting is hardly a major problem. The doing other stuff is for later when you'll be waiting a page to get your latest and greatest creation.
Now that I think about it, unless our cohort grows, it may be necessary to remove the restriction on the posts not being your own. But we'll see how it goes.

@Cyclone, I think being around the same city would be interesting. Just probably not on the same side of the city. If you were maybe North or West of Paterdomus that would be fine without being uncomfortably close.