That's kind of sad, but up to you. The story won't suffer for it, but i knew you could make it more graphic than it sounds ;d Anyway since i saw there wasn't much progress going on here, i took some of my free time and tried to do the first chapter. So feast your eyes on this, feel free to do some slight corrections ofc. Including that fish part if someone doesn't want him included still (he hasn't responded to my pm so i guess he doesn't give a damn). The "//" is where i continued on from carey's last post. You can add some funny hints and so on make it fun.
Chapter1(a): Intro/snake
There is another way to get things moving here. The first 11 chapters obviously represent the appearance of a new character. So the chapter in which the member is mentioned (i.e. next up is william) can do the next chapter (I can help if i'm available). Here's an updated list of the main story progression so you get what i mean:
Story progression, Episode I