I had been under the impression from communications outside the thread that Shovah was a temp sub. I may have been wrong about this though. As Shovah isn't responding to pm at the moment it's a little hard to tell.
I'll probably be unable to play/connect to internet from the 7th to the 14th. I'll try to connect at least once in order to retrieve and play if I can, but can't guarantee this.
No - I had to take time away from the internet at short notice, and had to bump up the host time for a couple of turns. It's back to normal from the next turn on.