If I put several characters in my offer they don't all have to be in the same story, right?
Nope. To reuse an example upthread, if you offered Catullus, Roxelana, Sappho and Aaron Burr, you could be matched to someone requesting "Catullus + Roxelana", "Catullus + Sappho" and "Roxelana + Suleiman". You could write any of their requests, including the one you didn't match on ("Roxelana + Suleiman"), but you wouldn't have to write Burr too. You would have to write Catullus + Roxelana + Sappho either (unless they requested it and you wanted to, obvs).
Basically, the offers guarantee that you (think you) can write for your recip, but what matters to fulfilling your assignment is what they requested.
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Date: 2016-06-13 09:03 pm (UTC)Nope. To reuse an example upthread, if you offered Catullus, Roxelana, Sappho and Aaron Burr, you could be matched to someone requesting "Catullus + Roxelana", "Catullus + Sappho" and "Roxelana + Suleiman". You could write any of their requests, including the one you didn't match on ("Roxelana + Suleiman"), but you wouldn't have to write Burr too. You would have to write Catullus + Roxelana + Sappho either (unless they requested it and you wanted to, obvs).
Basically, the offers guarantee that you (think you) can write for your recip, but what matters to fulfilling your assignment is what they requested.
Does that make sense?