Hm, I was under the impression that you could plan OOC, but you had to eventually bring all effective content IC?
That is, you're welcome to debate strategy on IRC or send messages IRC, but if you want your character to act in any way predicated on them, it must occur IC, IG. I believe this rule was developed in the context of torturing and spying: conversations via MSN that would happen IG would create lots of messages, thus upping the chance of a torture to reveal militarily sensitive info.
All orders must be passed IG/IC. You can't punish someone IG for things done OOG, or for not doing things IG that are discussed OOG, etc., etc.
Beyond that, I agree, that things may not quite be clear. Yes, things should be brought back into the game. You need to give the people IG a chance to participate.
Tom can check their messages (someone please correct me ASAP if I'm wrong).
Tom has direct DB access. He can get to
anything that passes through the game. He, of course, has admin tools that make things easier than using SQL-fu all the time, though.
