I'm still really cagey about inviting CbNers onto London. Not because I wouldn't be happy to have some of them on board, you understand - I'd be happy to have DB and a few others I can think of on board, and overjoyed to have (just as a for instance) CC, Kai and Kyr as players. It's just that I still have no desire to be seen as 'poaching other people's players' or have to deal with, for example, Thestral hearing about it and asking to join, only to have to tell him in no uncertain terms that I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a rusty shiv than staff for him.

I honestly don't know what to do. I'd love to turn around to some of the Charlestonites and say, "Hey, I'm starting up a new board - want in?" but there's just so much baggage involved. Hey, if you can think of any way of doing it that doesn't make me look like a poacher or a picky bitch when I turn some people down out of hand, I'd be really glad to hear it.