You're going to have to bear with Pickle Crisp for a tad longer. This code is a mess. I knew there was a reason I was putting this off. ...

Anyway, Chris, to answer your question -- at first, you'll just have the stock characters. After a while I'd like to have a way for people to publish character definitions, though; full character definition is going to be a *very* hairy thing indeed, as a casual glance at the original definitions of Hick and Chick will tell you (they've gotten a little more complicated since then).

Ultimately it'd be nice for you to be able to declare and build your own characters, and allow people to use them -- or not. But that's a rather ambitious bit of organization, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.