Okay, that last post was actually Void.
But it still stands. Basically, what Serenity is planning on forcing upon everyone is the same as what the original plan was. But, we are here now, and I'm not about to walk the road of hypocritsy, set a bad example and just ignore another RPer, no matter who they are or how rushed what they put was.
So let's try to see the positives rather than whining about what could've been; it gives the impression that you have plans of your own, which I think everyone will agree, would probably be highly unproductive if implemented so early on.
1) Campsite provides far greater intimacy than riding upon horseback.
2) It's still going to take the same number of posts before we're at Albrecht anyway. ('The next day, we arrived at Albrecht...')
3) This is a chance to dispel some of the grey and shadowed areas of people's characters - most people here don't have a character history, per sey; they can get away with saying that it's relitive to the board. Which is all well and good, unless you're still unsure of exactly what your character's history is, in which case it just translates into laziness or reflects upon your skills as a role-player, by definition: to take on or act out the role of someone else. Which includes having a history for them and being AWARE of what that history is.
4) Even the 'I DON'T UNDERSTAND. THIS IS POINTLESS!' little nancy girls in the thread should be able to reply to this. (If you can't, see point 3 and leave my thread immediately. I would kick out a n00b for not having a half-way decent character history on-hand and I will kick out a supposedly/self-proclaimed 'advanced' or 'veteran' RPer if they can't think of one either. It's the BASICS.)
5) It's allowed Fyre to make a subtley clever post, which I'm liking.
So c'mon people, let's see some Character development! Or do some of us still fill some of those n00b catagories?
