Okay,
Boro, I would like to raise the objection that you seemed to forget to mention Michael in your post.
No matter, though (but perhaps you might edit your post to mention him. Or whatever). I have posted, and any of you people are of course free to initiate a dialogue with Michael (after all, there's this totally unknown young hobbit who joined the party, I can imagine people will be curious as well) - I figured that actually especially at this point, he could serve as a good "catalyser for posting", so to say.
And
Mnemo, I believe something about the setting is said in the beginnings of the game (at the start of this thread perhaps), I believe it is spring, something like April or so, if I recall correctly.