First stage story characters required always? Okay, whatever.

Can't use troopers on first stage? That's annoying; okay, whatever.

Can do auto replay on first stage? Not acceptable.

Also, apparently something did weird stuff last night (around 23.00 central US time); have autorun set in Brave New World, suddenly, I'm in some random viking invasion dungeon with viking crusader Ed, magus corrupt rescuer, and some other random character, none of which were on the BNW team, and surprise, the run failed.