just a suggestion for those who are struggling with their groups: rather than playing out group threads, i would recommend maybe playing out individual threads with the group your character is stuck with. from personal experience i've found that anything over 3 characters rarely goes anywhere, especially when you don't know what kind of players you're stuck with and one of them might be prone to dropping threads anyway. want new cr? just tag the character with the more active player in a thread where they're not with a whole group.