In the end I suspect what group there is should break up. Even if to do more things at greater distance than base greed or poor politics. But when you set things up to depend on one person and that person doesn't deliver than you've sort of ruined everything.

I learned this as well with a fantasy RP a friend of mine started. He was all pumped for it, we did our posts, and then it got to a point where he needed to post and he didn't.