Well as we are thrown into this contest and constrained only by the facts given to us my the mods running it and the profile that we were provided with, we can make up whatever else we like.
I surely have already made up a TON about Kaine.
I'm sure it doesn't fit was his creator had in mind, but each person is entitled to his own interpretation and everyone has their own creative flair.
As far as the story that we craft, we can wave our 'RP God Stick' and make whatever we need to happen work.
Who said that they all DIDN'T bring their letters with them?
It would be reasonable and it is prove of their invite to the occasion as well as containing the address and information.
As far as being related, I was thinking very distantly.
Like his late wife's cousin's granddaughter.
My thought was that he didn't have any close family, so he devised this elaborate 'INSERT PLOT HERE' out of insanity/to make sure it went to who deserved it/to drive the greedy people crazy out of all of his distant relatives.
The Clue Scheme could work as long as we all just decided on something appropriate to our characters that he could have been blackmailing them for.
It would be a one post alteration for them all to admit to themselves or the others that they were being blackmailed.
Even squeaky clean characters could have something lurking from their past, like cheating on a major exam (LSATs, MCATs, etc), sleeping with a professor, etc. Not terrible things but things that they wouldn't want anyone to know.
Anyway, I'm not insisting on any of these, just demonstrating how I think they could work.
I agree with the others that the 'Practical' scheme would work best if incorporated with the others, especially the Adventure scheme.
Because why would he have sent THOSE people the letter/clue.
If we have any other ideas why these people were chosen, please share them!
Lovely Siren! I'm working on Kaine as we speak but it is slow going today. I apologize.
Major mental block. lol