tlei - please PM me (if you can), or simply let us know (in this thread) if you'd like to join. Elidia dropping out leaves us with an opening for which you are first alternate. We'll be beginning play sometime today, but I'm confident we can work you in fairly well. In the meantime, we've got a quintet of PCs with well tied together backgrounds that we'll be starting with.
As for alts, that's a question better suited for an admin. I don't see it being an issue, though (at least for me!).
And on a final note, my next post in this thread will be a link to the starting post of the PbP. See you soon!