Talk:Mission: News Camera/@comment-7763430-20191210131114/@comment-38109392-20191210154830

That comment was incorrect. Dolly, Molly, and Polly start the game at level 2, Jack starts at level 3, Toby starts at level 5.

Merlin starts at level 6. (Arlo starts at level 30, for comparison.) Not sure if you can take her into a ruin during this date, but I wouldn't be surprised. You can take every character that will go on a date/play date with you into the ruins, iirc.