[@MatthiasAngel][@Raijinslayer][@Valor][@BlessedWrath][@Afro Samurai][@duskshine749]

Okay, because there is some uncertainty about what is going on with the RP, I'm posting my intentions and instructions for how we will proceed.

I am going to do an IC post next to move the plot forward.  That post will be done sometime tonight.  I ask that no one else post until after the plot is moved forward.  This will be my answer to the current conundrum of getting the RP moving again.

I understand that some of you have work or school obligations that are preventing you from posting more often.  I also understand some of you are much more available to continue the RP and are feeling held back as a result of others not being able to post as much.  If I leave things as they are, it will take weeks to months to get things sorted out enough for us to get started on the plot...and we've already spent over a month just getting people to the lodge.

Therefore, I am going to institute a new policy of posting attendance: if you do not post within 2 weeks from your last post in the RP in either IC or OOC, then I will proceed with the RP as if your character is no longer there, and encourage all other players to continue without you.  I may or may not recruit new players to fill your former slot as I see fit thereafter.

However, because introducing that rule well after the RP started is not particularly fair to those of you who have already notified me of school/work concerns making it hard for you to post, I am adding an extra caveat for all of the players that were accepted initially.  This rule will take effect for you [u][i]after[/i][/u] you make your next post in the RP.

Furthermore, because it creates havoc to assume your characters are still in the RP without getting any confirmation, your characters will be "invisible" in the posts following my plot-forwarding post until you make your next post.  In other words, you may join the plot at any point after my plot post, but until you do, we will assume your character is not there for ease of speeding up interaction and not doing things without your character.  This is akin to your gaming group playing a session of a tabletop RPG if you are not there to play as your character; your character is assumed to have been there, but does not actively participate because you were not there to play your character, so your skills, backstory, equipment, etc., are not available to the rest of the party to use without your consent.

If you have any questions or concerns with this new policy, please ask here in the OOC so we can all address the issue.

I am also deleting the IC channel tonight at 8pm Mountain time; if you have not retrieved the logs from it that you want before that time, and if there are no requests to extend the time to allow you to do so, then it will be deleted entirely, due to general consensus that it was taking away from the main RP thread.  I may create a new IC channel at a later date after we've established the living situation at the lodge better, but for now, we will go without.