I feel that now that nearly everyone is pretty much traveling as one group under the GM's direction instead of one or so posts per character, things should settle down compared to how hectic the beginning of an RP tends to be. I even quit my hijinks and got on with it. So no one has to worry about me posting random stuff for the time being. I would suggest perhaps holding off on random encounters like the thugs for now. I believe things should settle down in the long run.