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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DestroyYouAlot" data-source="post: 4024029" data-attributes="member: 36618">Huh.  Is the current GM aware of the situation?  (Looking at the "Sleeping with current GM" line, possibly not - or they may see it as an inevitable consequence of playing with the SO.)May not be all that helpful to you in your current situation, but - from a GM point of view, and as someone who will bend over backwards to avoid telling PCs (as opposed to players) what to do - I'd let them do whatever the hell they want, go off alone, whatever.  Fine.But it all happens "off-camera."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  The "camera" is on the PC group.  Anyone can go off on their own, but their actions don't get attention - maybe a dice roll or two to get results for things that need randomizing, otherwise just give them a brief blurb summing up what happens to them, and then back to the action.  They'll experience a slight loss of control - not being able to analyze every piece of info, play out every combat, make every decision - but that's what happens when a character isn't "on camera."  You want to be part of the action, stay where the action is (i.e., with the group).That's how I'd handle it, at least.As for your finding a program to track this thing - I don't see how that's possible.  My best bet would be to track it on a piece of graph paper - time scale across the top (in, I don't know, 10?  15 minute intervals?), player list down the side.  But it's gonna be filtered through your own perceptions, no matter what - and, of course, you'd have to split your attention from actually playing the damn game, so you'd need to decide whether this is a worthwhile use of your time.</blockquote>

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