Wow, I'm glad I saw this post of yours today before I did anything more than a little Google-searching. I was going to join and add some info about how I (er, JUST I, aktuly. Indigo volunteered to help later) started OTL, but now I guess I won't bother. Or, if I do, I won't be surprised if the weirdiemod changes it all back.

If you do start up a wiki or history page or whatever, I will try to contribute what I can. I noticed when I looked last night that the OTL archives on Topica go back to 1999, and there are some useful posts there referring to meta things which could be helpful.