Folks --

I am now closing enrollment in the Deadfire Saga.

Active players will be:

	Mike Simpson		captain@pobox.upenn.edu [Storyguide]

	Brian Mac Donald	brianm@phil.cursci.com [may change soon]
	Doug Bellew		bellew@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
	John Kuner		jkuner@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
	Lydia Leong		lwl@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
	Paul Curtis		pcurtis@sas.upenn.edu
	Peter Kitchin		pkitchin@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu
	Rob Barrett		rbarrett@dept.english.upenn.edu

Inactive players (just along for the idle reading, for the moment):

	Harold Trinkunas	antanas@leland.stanford.edu
	Jesse Bausch		fbausch@mail.sas.upenn.edu

I never got responses from:

	John Batzel		batzel@seas.upenn.edu
	Glenn Mulvaney		gam@aurora.cis.upenn.edu
	Kris Varhus		varhus@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

I'll assume they're tired of being spammed and drop them from my mailing 
alias immediately;  this will be the last message you will receive from 
me unless I hear otherwise.  If any of the primary players decide to drop 
out, you'll get first chance at filling the spot.

I'm VERY, VERY excited that we got seven solid players so quickly.  Thank 
you for your enthusiasm;  I expect this to be quite a lot of fun.  I had 
picked the setting (East-Central Europe, 1325) for a simple, purely 
plot-centering reason (can't tell you -- you'll find out soon enough);  
the more I read about the period, the more I realize what a pivotal time 
it was in European history (plenty of parallels to the current day, of 
course -- but that's shop talk for the coffee-house crowd, not campaign 
material).  I'm also falling rapidly in love with the _Ars Magica_ 
system, as an added bonus.  It's not Harnmaster, but hey?  who the hell 
knows what that is, anyway? >;)

I *have* acquired a WWW home page -- you can get to it through:

	http://pobox.upenn.edu

and follow the links to Mike Simpson.  For the moment, it's just the 
electonic equivalent of a "BEGIN ROADWORK 500 FEET" sign;  but I have the 
relevant materials to hand and HTML is a stone-cold breeze.  I expect to 
have a few things up by the end of the weekend, and I'll be adding to it 
regularly.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do make requests for specific 
information -- otherwise I'll just type in reference books one page at a 
time.  Don't make me do that.  Please.

More later.

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