add a recruitment page to start distributing soon

pages/parted-shadow/index.md

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 |> [![Map of the island of Wald](wald.png)](wald.png)
-|: The island of Wald
+|: The island of Wald.
 {: .right }
 
 Age of Parted Shadow is a [13th Age](../13th-age/index.md) points of light campaign set on the island of Wald, an
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 the table by way of backgrounds and icon relationships, so the particulars of the emerging threat(s) taking center stage
 will be determined during play.
 
+**Current status: [RECRUITING](recruitment.md)**
+
 ## Icons of Wald
 
 There are nine powerful icons in the Age of Parted Shadow that make up the milieu of conflict across the island. Players

pages/parted-shadow/recruitment.md

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+# Age of Parted Shadow Recruitment
+
+Hello! I (bss) am starting up [Age of Parted Shadow](index.md), a 13th Age game. 13th Age is my favorite D&D-like, and
+if you are familiar with D&D 4e especially, you will find a lot of familiar components and approaches in the game, but
+with less tactical combat minutiae and more collaborative player-driven storytelling. It's a game of heroic action
+combat supported by freeform narrative mechanics. I think it makes for awesome fantasy adventuring.
+
+|> [![Map of the island of Wald](wald.png)](wald.png)
+|: Where we'll be playing.
+{: .right }
+
+Information about the game and world can be found on the Age of Parted Shadow page linked above. Below I have some notes
+for how I see getting the game together. If you are interested in joining the game or have questions or anything, you've
+probably already let me know, but as we get closer to "ready to play", I will be building some long-term places for us
+to communicate and play.
+
+## Gameplay
+
+**Probable venue: Foundry Virtual Tabletop.**
+
+I have a Foundry VTT server running on my own infrastructure, along with a LiveKit subscription for (hopefully)
+convenient audio/visual conferencing. 13th Age does not need a battle map, but does benefit from one, and I think this
+arrangement will sufficiently cover live play. I would have the server running and allowing connections for a while
+before and after our scheduled game time, for people to make level up adjustments, check things, remember what we were
+doing, and so on.
+
+Note: I am choosing not to use Discord for A/V (or chat, see below) for a variety of reasons. If we literally can't get
+anything in Foundry VTT or Mumble or whatever to work, it's an option, but I am trying to avoid it.
+
+If everyone ends up being local, I would be open to playing in my basement. The gaming table seats six, and there's
+generally plenty of room to congregate. However, I'm expecting this might be a bit more convenient if we're playing
+online, obviously so if some of you are not in "the area". I don't think I'd try to do a mix of in-person and remote, it
+tends to be a headache unless someone here happens to be an expert at teleconferencing production.
+
+## Scheduling
+
+**Proposed time: Wednesday evenings (Central Time), biweekly.**
+
+Here's the sad truth: my schedule is pretty limited between work and kids and other obligations. The #1 option for me
+right now is Wednesday evenings, US Central time. Monday evenings might work, but they would have to be alternating with
+my other gaming group, and Friday evenings have an off chance of working but are prone to conflicts on my side. Tuesday
+and Thursday evenings are difficult and more time-constrained but not quite excluded, but the weekends are all but
+certainly excluded except as a one-off or maybe where we can put major events.
+
+When letting me know if you're interested, please include schedule info.
+
+## Organization and Downtime Discussion
+
+**Probable venue: mailing list or forum.**
+
+I'm guessing that this game may be spread across multiple of my circles, so we'll need to settle somewhere in order to
+coordinate and confirm sessions, talk about post-game things, let the group know about conflicts, and so on. This
+function especially I do not like walling this behind Discord, and I don't plan on making a Discord instance for A/V, so
+we need to pick something. I see some options for this, in no particular order other than my general outlook:
+
+* **Mailing list** --- I run mailing list software already, and it generally gets to recipients just fine. It's the low
+  tech option that people still kind of know how to work with.
+* **Forum** --- I don't currently run a forum to organize on, but if people wanted a post-based experience without using
+  email, I could see what I can scare up. It'd pretty much be just for this purpose, however. Or, I don't mind using
+  someone else's forum for this purpose, if such a thing exists.
+* **IRC** --- I also run an IRC network where I have a couple games organized and even ran over; IRC is tough to use
+  satisfactorily for some, I will admit, but I have options to make it more convenient. IRC conversations are great, but
+  the alternatives might be a bit more natural to folks --- I may make a channel for chit-chat regardless.
+
+Let me know what you think.
+
+## Logs, Journals, etc.
+
+**Probable repository: here, also a wiki?**
+
+This website is backed by a Git repo, and it's simple for me to let folks contribute to it in Markdown or plain text
+format. That's easy (for me) but a bit manual and probably not everyone's preferred way to collect stuff. If folks would
+like a wiki, I'm open to running one (probably DokuWiki) or using someone else's (as long as it's easy to use).