As your game host, I offer the following options:
1. My son has offered to sub for Pasha Dawg while he is gone. Now, everyone must know what this will mean. Because we have only one CD key between the two of us, we will be forced to both do both turns on my computer. This makes it very hard for us to be at war with each other. However, I currently have a peace agreement with Pasha (Ulm) in this game, so the difficulty in fighting a war should not be a problem in the near term. The other thing is that my son was the first eliminated as Ulm in the Pantheons game when he was hit with a 2 on 1, so maybe Pasha might be a bit concerned about that.
2. I can pause the game for ten days. But it will be problematic getting the game restarted in early October as we would have to wait for another Mose Hansen game to either end or pause to open up a slot for me to restart our game. This will likely take several more days of constant checking to make happen. Could be even longer, like a week or so. I do not recommend this option at all.
3. I do not mind Dragonfire subbing, since he is not adjacent to Ulm. I also think that Dragonfire is probably going to be eliminated within the next 10-20 turns anyway. If this option is selected, then Dragonfire must agree to transfer nothing between the two sides. Nothing at all, even a trade.
4. In any event, I can change the schedule to 3 or 4 day QH while Pasha is gone.
Chime in quickly on opinions. I am currently leaning towards options 3 and 4 right now and will go that route unless people post strong opinions otherwise.