
You're not the only one who's lurking... this guy is, too! Get it? MireLURK? ...I don't like it much either.
sweatdrop Anyway, as for RPs, not to discourage you, but RPing has gotten slower here. Not dead, but it's definitely slowed down. On the other hand, we lost a lot of RP people over the past year due to ragequit/being the sort of person who grabs real life by the horns and doesn't let go/disliking the way FEF's set up, so fresh blood may likely help.
And yeah, the size of the RP world that FEF has reached can be intimidating. In Halloween '08, it was just "ZOMG MORFSE". Guildaversary '10, it's more "Okay, so these bandits are attacking from this one country while this other nation that somewhat hates us is attacking. As a result, we have characters going four different routes to participate in four different RPs-within-the-RP". Much more complicated and time-consuming.
sweatdrop It's not, however, terribly difficult to start out. Most of what you need is a character (canon FE or make-your-own). It doesn't matter if they're from Elibe or the Death Star (I think it's doable, if you plan it out well enough).
Anyways, I'mma shut up before I overload on this. If you got any questions, there's the forum "Learanian Legacies" for general questions, or ask someone on crew or maybe even Chatterbox if you can't find the answers.