Have we lost some players?

I messaged and emailed both and have recieved no response. I was thinking of offering control of Fargrim and Palius to the rest and then advertise for new players to join with the next adventure. In play by post players drop in and out I just I had a yea or nay for sure. We can give them a good death, Retire them, or you like to play them keep them. Wordwise was other player who dropped without a word. So anyone want to be a dwarf cleric or an elf wizard?

I would be willing to help but I am playing 2 characters already. Would help play one until a replacement came but maybe if two other people each picked up one it wouldn't be too bad? Even if it was until we could maybe find more players?

In some ways I like if we had fewer that could respond faster. I hate when one or two are always slow to respond. Once a day or more posting can really allow it to move well.

Per Hrakens note I kind of am worried about not having a cleric. We'll need that. 4 isn't too bad but it would be good if someone picked up him perhaps?

One thing is both of my characters arent my favorite classes either. I like wizards and bards and both were taken when I joined. Liking Malik so far as a cool fighter style (definitely not going to use his spells for healing).

Oloric is OK (obviously he's only level 2 so not as fun for lower casters at that level) but sorcerers are so limited in spells.

I guess my thoughts are we should either use Fargrim or grab a fifth player? But I like this campaign and in long terms I might not mind switching one of my characters. Maybe only if one died? But I hate healers. But I do like meeting the general typical roles we need (cleric and wizard and bard are now gone so that could be bad). Just my thoughts

My concern is we have 0 healing potions. I had to use the one I started with and we have no resources to buy more at this stage. A healer is almost a must.

I can take the goodberry spell, which will give us a pile of healing berries to use. I also have the cure wounds spell, for emergencies. Sithramir, you could see about dropping Oloric and taking up Wordwise, or making another bard if that would interest you. I don't think it would matter roleplay-wise.

I think we could survive okay as long as we take our rests between encounters. I've read that 5e isn't quite as reliant on having a balanced party as the other editions, and a healer isn't as much of an auto-include as it used to be.

That being said, I wouldn't mind taking up another character, but I'm not interested in Faragrim. I'll think about how to create an interesting healer-type or at least part-healer type that interests me. I might try to make some kind of healer or druid that has an aversion to fighting or something. I think I can make something interesting, I'll keep you guys posted.

I'm working on a concept for a poisoning/healing swamp druid.

I was also thinking of making a "surgeon" type character. I'm looking at a thief rogue with the healer feat. With that I could heal quite a bit using a healing kit with the bonus action from the thief. We seem to have a lot of rogues already though, so If I do that, I think I would only take the three levels required for that ability, and use another class as my main class. I might combine that with the druid and make a sort of witch-doctor. lol.

Do you guys have any thoughts on how to build an interesting character around that theif/healer mechanic? (again, I would only take 3 levels of rogue to prevent role overlap.

Witch-doctor could be interesting, or maybe taking the cleric route and being some sort of renegade cleric or devout rogue? Perhaps the rogue levels indicate a criminal background and now the character's trying to redeem past deeds? Alternatively, maybe you could even serve some neutral or evil god that's completely fine with the stealing aspects. There's a lot of angles that could be taken with that, and looking at it mechanically it'd be nice to combine rogue maneuverability with cleric protection. Hopefully one of these suggestions helps!