I have posted the game world background to the official website:
http://lemuria.org/SM3/welcome/world
Now you can start to think about your characters. :-)
I don't think I will be able to finish the game engine before I go on holidays on saturday, so let's consider something like September 1st for the official launch, but you can now begin to come up with character concepts and maybe post them here so I can give you feedback.
Also, as always, if there is something unclear - ask. One thing in advance: There is more background than this, but it has only been posted to the GMs because you as players should discover it IC. :)
Woohoo!
Thanks, Tom!
(sits down and starts thinking hard)
Very nice.
As we've now got an outline of a sandbox, and both James and Tom are going on a holiday for a while (poor James' is a working holiday outside a spanish city). I've been putting together a self contained story that will start on Monday (roughly 12am GMT) and run till the official launch.
I'm going away this weekend myself, but will have a start up post when I return. This will be an RP only event, and people will be limited to a handful of spells, although both ritual and other casting will be possible. Just wanted to give people a chance to warm up with this style of RP'ing for those who are unfamiliar. It should be a lot of fun.