On the one hand, I understand where Brim is coming from. Real life concerns, even the most trivial, can take precedence over this whole internet forum bit we have going here. We have all done it, unfortunately--from time to time we've all had troubles keeping up to speed with posting. As the competition gets harsher--bigger, longer posts and more info to account for--it becomes harder and more time consuming to keep up. I mean...me, Hwo and Engar are now regularly firing off ten page posts at each other, for crying out loud. It takes some people all month to write a ten page story. I once did it in one night, so I guess that gives me a miserably unfair advantage.
As for me...once the Rumble entered it's second month I knew we were in for the long haul. All the more reason I'm dying to WIN it...and all the more reason I expect it to eventually go into sudden death.
Either way, it is a special case because Brim got re-entered. That implied that he was going to have more of an active interest in participating. On the one hand I don't want to be harsh, but on the other hand, my character's posts are already pre-planned and I think the lot of us are itching to go at it some more on the whole, so it makes it a tough call.