(OOC: I REALLY appreciate you starting this Mark and you get so many brownie points for it as I wasn't feeling very good last night or this morning.
But I think I'm going to go with Kota's suggestion and have people post what their characters would bring to the group to save time and so characters aren't stuck in a mass group thread. You can still play in here if you would like because it is the first time the group has come together but there will be another thread with the basic outcome of what people will bring to help the group survive.)