I think this RP will pick up "speed" once we meet each other. Right now, it feels like a serious of individual fan fic to me lol I like to interact with others in an RP, I mean that's is the purpose of a Forum RP, isn't it? =p I guess that's why my posts are laggin' right now. Sorry, but yea, I'm still in it!
The whole point of us GM's requesting you guys stay apart for a bit, is because it adds to your character's seclusion and isolation, even when out in the world because we didn't get to see that obviously in our character's life earlier. This time alone is meant to build on your character's solitary side, since it wasn't seen in the 8 months previous. It would have been boring, and frankly unrealistic for us to do or ask of you guys, if we started off the RP and waited 8 months in RP game time, to have us play out our solitariness in a fallout shelter or wherever, tossing a tennis ball against the wall. We want everyone to show off the isolation their character's have been living under, while also exploring a dead and seemingly empty world, with threats at possibly every corner, which was once alive and filled, and didn't have a possible threat around every corner. So that's why right now it's sort of individual fan fic's, it's just to build and show your character before everyone starts coming together.
But like Venix said, you can start coming together if you want, but just don't anyone jump into it like what happened before at the start. If you want to meet up with someone, then I suggest you make it more drawn out and realistic. Maybe set up a scenario with someone, where one of you is stalking the other, thinking they might be a good person to knock over for supplies or something? Maybe you're just curious about them, and are looking for something else, although you're not sure of their possible true intentions. Things like that will add depths and life to the RP, without jumping the gun on people joining up.