I haven't been able to contact Noel in a while, Mike seems to have cut off all ftf gaming for a while and John succumbed to Amber burnout -- he's been playing Amber for twelve years now.
So I refocused the campaign on Tom and Karen's players and abandoned most of the plotlines aimed at everyone else. I used the traditional Amber method for this, I blew up the world.
Surviving npc's are mostly those involved with Sam, Archie or their backstories, with Flora thrown in -- Mike might regain interest, plus I thought of something evil to do to her. Noel's npcs might have survived, Rebma did and parts of the Courts have.