OHAI THERE. If the majority of people are into GChat I don't mind having us switch over or to utilize both as tools to communicate with. xD
As far as plot goes, Sloane and I have intentions of putting things in place to push that idea forward, but with Sloane still on vacation in Asia and her being primary on our villain, I was intent on letting people get their characters ironed out in the environment before we started fucking with people too much. In EV, a lot of the plots were based around us playing risk with the groups. I feel like Masch could function similarly, but it's something I need help with and I can't do it without Sloane here or without the aid of another mod which Sloane and I had discussed obtaining before she left. Additionally with the activity crawling, it was difficult to figure out how to motivate an overall plot movement without people actually playing.