We need more reason and more time for our characters to interact with each other. We're just getting started with formulating reasons to be together, it's like any real life friendship: it just develops over time. I thought getting together would give us more opportunities to act and react. It would help if we had a common goal to act on or towards, but I think we can manage figuring out more as our characters roam the town and get lunch, just being stagnant near the tree hasn't really helped yet. Bringing in more people isn't necessarily a good thing, because if we can't interact extensively with each other then how will we possibly interact with a new person who needs to be "caught up" on what's going on?
All in all, I just think we need more circumstances for our characters to react to. The bullying lead by Ahmose against Ajala and Arcana was a really good interaction point between Ajala, Arcana, Dagr, and Jack. Our characters will be thinking about it, and will most likely talk about it later on in their interactions. We just need more of these points for people.
Sorry, I've been rather long-winded, but this is just the beginning of our true roleplay, in my opinion. Character relationships are hard to get a handle on, as people will feel differently towards everyone and therefore act independently in every situation. With all of this said, I will post when I can, but I don't think the RP is dead just because we flat-lined for a couple of days. People are still interested in keeping it alive and that's a good sign.