I wouldn't be adverse to starting over, so long as you leave the posts we've already written, to copy or ignore as we need. It would clean up the people who are gone, and might help the story start more fluidly. But that is just me, and it would be easy enough to continue in the thread we already have. It would also give people a chance to come back, if they wanted to.
Mostly, I just want to get Cirdan un-stuck. So, selfish reasons. :)