When you kill core blaze in the auf expedition, Asia asks for every single expedition member to be present to move on to the next stage. Today one of my expedition members went afk without notice or any later response during royal guard, and we've been sitting in the cb map for an hour waiting now, kicking him from the party doesn't let us move on, and he doesn't seem to be coming back. I know this function is there to make sure nobody is accidentally left behind, but it would be nice if there was a way to overrule that, and choose to leave an actual afk member behind, cause right now it looks like we'll have to give up on the run all together. Spoiler
yeah since making this post I've thought that an overrule could probably cause more problems than this fringe situation caused (unless it's separated from the Asia npc). Can't say it's happened before, and I think it makes sense it's up to the expedition leader to make sure their party is available/reachable for the normal duration of an expedition