post orders work well for chat based rps, but not so much forum based ones i've noticed. 

if someone's absent for an extended period of time and then they come back, they can jump back in, either on their own just by having their character participate in the scene again, or work with me to write in some explanation as to why they were away. if they're gone for a long time then i'll remove them from the active characters list in the first ooc post, but people who leave are always welcome back.

i know this is a busy time of year for a lot of people, so a day or two away from the site is understandable. the rest of us can just keep trucking along until they return.

like i said before, i'll have a post up today regardless within the next five or six hours.