Here's another IC/OOC question for everyone. In that coldest of Fireseeks in 585 CY, how old and what level was everyone? You can say you're 1st level, although I'm not holding everyone to a standard level progression throughout the adventures we'll be describing. You could already be second or third and then miss a few adventures later on, etc ... Or you could start with a completely different character and have that PC killed off or wander off, leaving room to introduce your current PC later.
(Side note: I once was in a Realms game with a newish DM back in '87 or '88. We had just gotten that first FR box and was very excited, and felt if would be more realistic if he didn't adjust any random encounter tables for our level (we were all 1st). I swear, I went through four or five PCs before I was able to reach 2nd level. It became a running joke among the group *sigh*.)
Pardon my momentary digression. The reason I need to know your starting levels is not just for completeness, but also to judge what kind of challenges you would have been able to defeat at the time. If I described you guys single-handedly taking on a frost giant skald during the first adventure, you would have a right to be a little skeptical.
In order to move this part of the game forward, I was thinking of waiting for two days (not counting weekends) between each of the adventure synopsis posts. That should give everyone enough time to post their descriptions, right? If you miss one, that's no bigee, you can always add something later if you like (remember we'll be collecting the posts for our IC thread), or we'll just assume that nothing particularly spectacular happened to your PC during that adventure.
On the subject of adventures, I've also been realizing that because six years pass between the first and most recent of your adventures, your characters will be having quite a bit of "downtime". This is generally something which most games don't deal with, certainly not in their mechanics (except for Ars Magica, which rocks!) It might be interesting to figure out how your PC supports herself when not on an adventure, or if she has another passion/interest/family that takes up her time. As has been guessed, most of the adventures will deal with the giants and other humanoids of the invasion. There will be less standard "adventures" (e.g. let's go explore the ancient tomb of the lich king of Argleblarg!), although I mighty try to sneak in one or two
