Sorry I'm behind on my post everyone.  Yesterday was chaotic during the day and I spent my night concentrating on getting my NaNo project off the ground.  I will make sure I post later today or tonight.<br/><br/>On the fuzzy time discussion, the phrase is completely new to me but I think I understand the concept.  My only other group experience is in a more free-flowing setting so this sort of thing has never really come up for me.  I see the benefits of doing it by messenger but that wouldn't work for me for a number of reasons.  Though I'm on messengers a lot, I often walk away from the computer constantly (especially when I'm at work like now) and during the day, like Tootsie, I use a web program to access instead of a downloaded one.  I also just prefer to use my IMs for chatting instead of RPing.  I'm not familiar with IRC either though I could learn about it.<br/><br/>We definitely have to figure out some way to allow characters to go off and do their thing though.  I know its a group plot based game but even in a large family, members often go their separate ways at times and its very feasible that two or more members might want to go off and have an intimate or non-intimate moment without the entire family being involved (I'm just guessing here, but I don't think anyone expects all the intimate scenes to involve all 6 members. Could be wrong on that though).  I don't have a suggestion for how to do that though other than the ones proposed and they don't work so great for me.