Season 3 Intro and Factions

[Zexsudel]

I am just starting out playing Society with a group of friends and I have a quick question. In the new Intro adventures the following is said regarding factions

Text blurb:

While each adventure in the series is a self-contained story, they are intended to be played in order by brand-new PCs without any experience or Prestige Points. At the end of the third scenario, A Vision of Betrayal, after the PCs have met and done a favor for all 10 faction heads, they will be able to choose their PCs’ allegiance and gain retroactive prestige for the completion of the previous two scenarios.

But when I read the Society handbook step 1 to character creation is "Choose Your Faction"

I assume that new players using this new three-piece arc don't have to pick since the newer handbook is due out soon, which most likely supersedes this older ruling, but I have more questions stemming from this.

If you have no faction for three adventures what do you list your faction as on your character sheet on the website? Does having three adventures full of players without any factions effect how the DM reports the game?

Sorry if these question have already been answered elsewhere.

[Paz]

From elsewhere:

Mark Moreland wrote:

Go ahead and register with one of the existing factions and change it to your chosen faction once the system allows for the five new ones. Once that's in place, new PCs should default to Grand Lodge.

I'm also going to put details on this in the revised version of the Guide.