[Quiet Man Cometh]

On the topic of characters and such, I don't see why we can't keep some of them around for things other than an overarching storyline. Keep the story too, if we want to have one, but have other stuff kicking around in sort of a meta fashion.

Kaimid, for example, I wasn't especially fond of in the story, but I liked the little comics that cropped up with him and Fakir. I could see having some characters be "official" forum personalities rather than part of any major story.