You could've done it either way. I commend your IC efforts to make introductions with Cecily and OOC efforts here to organize what the group is doing.<br/><br/>Everyone should always feel free to use OOC as wel as IC ot decide 'joint' actions among PCs - otherwise in PBP it takes forever to do anything, and people succumb to SAD (Standing Around Talking.)<br/><br/>In this case neither group found anything, so it doesn't matter. But in general I encourage you guys coordinating stuff like that - for example if a monster popped out of the river or some room in the house, so we would certainly need to know who was where.<br/><br/>PBP has a trade-off where PCs will want to do their own thing so more can be done in parallel w/o waiting for group consensus ("okay I go with you to follow the tracks") but where they may not want to split up. I strongly encourage you all to decide on level to which you can, in fact, move each other's characters.<br/><br/>Since no one has seconded or declined Randal's suggestion to stay the night, I have just scrolled time to next morning. Please indicate what you were doing next, and anything relevant you may've done during the past day (such as any different spells prepared, anything with the halfling loot, etc).<br/><br/>Also, Cecily has done basically nothing to 'join' with the other PCs - do they even know they are both planning to seek the same dragon? I strongly encourage Nikki, in your next post, to use this time to suggest you have given the other PCs some reason to want to travel with you (especially b/c so far her personality has consisted of yelling at people). Naturally it doesn't need to be done in real time (esp. b/c I just scrolled to next morning). Please don't just do the PC Aura thing ("we're PCs, therefore obviously we join up as soon as we establish line of sight for the first time"). Edit: saw your post in response, that's the sort of thing I was talking about I guess.<br/><br/>Next time I DM I'm definitely asking the players to arrange that their PCs were already 1-2 groups of compatriots prior to the RP starting (that said, there's a lot I could have done to speed things up). And once again I liked Toria's efforts to befriend Cecily.<br/><br/>