This thread is devolving into how a plot should be handled, so I'll help it on a bit.
When I see inactivity on a plot I'm involved in, it almost always comes down to
miscommunication, which leads
to the lack of communication.
A post or a PM gets missed, or doesn't contain the right questions, or who knows what. Then the DM is waiting for a response that the player thought had been delivered. Then the player, never getting an answer, shrugs and wonders if the plot is dead. The DM in the meantime wonders why the players aren't excited about this plot. The players have been told to wait two weeks or so before asking the DM again, so in the meantime they ask round and are told (
by some third party who they trust, but who really doesn't know) that the DM is (a) swamped with work (b) swamped with school (c) dying in a hospital, and will get back to the players when they can.
The players (a) chew fingernails (b) hold candlelight vigils, and continue to wait.
Meanwhile the DM (who is not Mark Oban,) may have been in the hospital for a weekend for something, but that was now two weeks ago, he's fine and dandy, but apparently no one is interested in his plot.
Plot dies.
Its incredibly frustrating for both sides, but I've seen this happen so many times over the years I now accept it as a matter of course.
