You hit the point exactly when you said "You can even make reasonable guesses"
Exactly. All of it is "reasonable guesses". You can't ever ask to find out ANYTHING.
And that's my point. My players are going to ask the characters questions to learn more about what actually happened and why to determine if they want to accept the character in the party.
Which then gets me thinking about why would the player in the video game accept any of them, other than they need companions?
