First off, sorry if this comes out bad.  I already took my melatonin and its gotten me very drowsy.  t.t

[quote=@Raineh Daze]
I have to agree on the "kill off" part.

... I mean, even if getting rid of a character seems like a [i]good[/i] idea, there's not such a high rate of fatal turnover that you could really explain 'and then this person is dead off-screen against nothing that they should be horribly threatened by'.

Plus people can be left without internet or what-have-you for some time, so removing them from the RP irrevocably seems a dick move.
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The first part is easy, you just kill the character on screen.  I'm assuming most of this rp is going to revolve around fighting, and various types of action anyways so if a player holds up the action then killing off their character would be the simplest thing.     

As for being left without internet, that's technically possible, but that's why I put this part: 
[quote=@malmshodes]
...It's not an iron rule like if someone can't post for a legitimate reason and they let one of the GMs know before the time limit, something will be worked out.
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Same goes with them having any one of a million problems.  The thing is all they have to do is message someone to say what's going on and then arrangements can be made like the GM just knocking their character out for a duration of their absence, or someone taking control of their character, and even Rin's idea could even be taken and the focus will just be moved away from them until the player comes back.  

The problem though with just automatically going the whole "moving focus" route is it doesn't really solve the problem.  If there's a person whose not replying that means that at least a part of the roleplay is being held up.  Why keep everyone back when a player doesn't even care enough to take five minutes to send a simple message saying something like "I'll be gone for over a week because of personal issues.  Please have someone...."?  Then what if more people need to have focused moved away from the character?  Now, you have two or three dead weights being held up by the rest of the group, when the spots could be freed up so more players can join and keep things going.  Yes, I know its probably not going to be possible to do everyday, but with a seven day grace period a person has 168 hours to find three minutes to let someone know what's going on and what can be done to fix it.  

Of course maybe I'm being a bit harsh because I've seen people just step out of a perfectly good rp without a word, keep replying on the site to various groups and threads(so he could've just said he quit and a week wouldn't have been wasted), and the whole thing will die just because of that.  

 Either way I'm definitely in.  :D