With Vicca's move to join FSE, The Bad Touch has been rocked, and its foundations begin to break away, crumbling to dust. As we sift through the remnants of their ghost ridden halls, we find survivors, and they join their strength to ours.....


....but you know my heart in matters of what defines strength, and it is this matter that lies most heavily on my mind. The fates can be cruel, and the spirits whisper warnings to me, carried by the wind.


The Bad Touch is not all angels, but rather (as with all guilds) they possess a few demons. 

I know many carry the notion of &quot;We can just remove them after they're in if they suck&quot; but I am not a follower of this religion. Though that can't be helped, it's a price to pay for some easy miracle grow. Just know that I'm worried a little about some chemistry, for the most part...these players and ourselves are strangers to one another. 

You can bet there's going to be more &quot;when are we raiding? I want to raid!&quot; type of things going on in guild chat, and it's going to get babysitterish. 

I guess it's like we started out with this core of players who're really in it for a type of teamwork spirit vibe get along gang thing. 

While I'm an officer I'm going to try to keep that thing going, pushing to stray from the path that leads to the typical warcraft guild made up of players linking their gear, coughing up their stats, and throwing tantrums. 

It's why I get concerned about apps (and believe me, our apps are so bad in my experience, as I compare them to bad Everquest apps...and there's no way some of these guys would get through in most adult guilds. Some of them are still in highschool...and from the look of the applications, not doing well!). I've been &quot;in charge&quot;  (gah, how geeky) of recruitment for guilds and so I'm used to reading into what kind of motives players have and how to screen out the craptastic server pond scum. My problem is that once you let in one rat, they breed...so quickly. Before you know it, that rat is trying to get his similar minded rat friends to join. Then come raid time, you're watching over a bunch of heathens! And guild chat is filled with nothing but the types of players who log on only to ask you to do something for them. :)

So, this rant is just me saying stuff. I'll be the first one ready to hit the button that opens the trap door beneath some of these new guys, just hope that if you see something kind of not-so-good tasting in a new member you come out with it. 

You can bet I'll be looking! A few of our new players make my Spidey senses tingle.