My first game, too.
The game is full, you can create your pretenders and email them to
pretenders@llamaserver.net
See
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=35160 for the details about sending in pretenders, playing a turn and any other llamaserver stuff.
The game should start when everyone has sent their pretender fils. It will start with the default time limits. I think only at that point can I get in and change the turn time limit to 72 hours.