I'm about as edgy as a feather pillow. Had recently gotten back from work so I didn't have enough energy to come up with a five paragraph post explaining my thoughts.

[@Lucius Cypher], using them as NPCs works just fine. You don't need to constantly RP them but you at least don't need to boot the character from the team just because the player left. We could even give them to new players who may or may not stick around.

It helps with the constant revolving cast of characters coming and going at least. That has to be strange from an IC perspective.