The game commenced and WildFire has it!
We're playing in the same sequence as I've listed above, since WildFire and Nightfa11 are the only ones from the US; the rest is European.
I don't have my own subforum here, so the first one to read this can start a thread about it.
By the way, if there's something terribly wrong with this sequence we can easily restart. Better to start later and play quickly than to rush the start and progress slowly.