[quote=@MrDidact]
[@Polyphemus] Do you think I should puppet Shade and Archos for a bit since their players aren't with us at the moment? 
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At this point I'm assuming that they both lost interest- both have been online but neither has posted in this thread for more than two weeks. So I'd say go for it.

I'm planning to do something of a time skip once these fights have been resolved, which may entail more recruits. So we can have [s]nameless cannon fodder[/s] NPC heroes that we can add to fights. Possibly second characters as well, if everyone feels up to that.