I believe it is these guys:  you aesthetikx codingvagrant me insomniasexx Yossarian white fishontheplate and  nowaypablo I'll check my mail. Edit:  Nothing in the mail today -- but weirdly, they deliver mail on Saturdays here.  Up in Canada, they are discontinuing door-to-door mail delivery.  Here they have it six days a week.   My guess based on the clues so far: 1.  Valentines Day 2.  The letters V and E are in a nine-letter word starting with V. 3.  Nine people are playing so perhaps there will be seven more letters. To be continued.
If someone wants to pm me a method of taking snapshots using skype and saving them somewhere with a png or gif or jpeg... let me know.  I don't know how to do that. Edit:  Saturday mail delivery - who else gets mail on Saturday?