... give him another day. At that point, I say find a way to work around him and get things moving again. I've seen to many threads were the GM vanishes and it dies because things can't move along and people leave by the time they return.
In that situation, should we just, y'know, have Crimson control Barnabas for the rest of the double battle? I mean, we are half way through, and having me or Noklu control Barnabas probably wouldn't be fair to Crimson XD