Huh. Just a thought, from something I realized that was going on in Conclave...
On Conclave, the game zombie-moves your character once per 24 hours. I didn't realize this until two new people joined our party and I started getting quest e-mails.
That said, would a zombie option be viable for here? Say someone doesn't post anything about their character's actions for over a day or two, so the next person up can zombie-move them in order to progress the plot? It would basically be like commandeering characters, only you're not commandeering the character, just "moving" them to where they need to be.
Since PB hasn't been posting in the Pokemon RP for a while, and since we'll come across other such issues in other RPs, perhaps a zombie option would be useful? Just to get the characters where they need to be?