Got Grugg's concept and will work on powering him up, today.
Stubbed in Nomad and will await his return and receipt of a concept before I plop him down in the game... we'll likely get started before he returns but I've got plenty of ways to bring him in once we're already underway.
That gives me the full boat of 8 players that i was looking for and, as such, I'm gonna go ahead and call recruitment closed.