The Inside Scoop On T.A.P. (The Aisha Pack)

by Minuet88

Most NeoPets players have at least heard of T.A.P. once. They think of it as a regular guild that is full of boring Aisha information. Well I'm here to tell all of Neopia how much fun we really have and why you should join! Back in December of '99 a few Aisha lovers got together and formed a small club which they deemed The Aisha Pack (they later shortened the name to T.A.P.). They created a huge Web site and showed it to Donna (a main NeoPets worker), who loved it and put the information and a message board for members only on the NeoPets Web site. Thus, the first guild was born!

After that, NeoPets created a few more guilds, but they had not been started by the fans themselves like T.A.P. There was T.A.P.'s leader Caila, guild masters Sithel, black_cat, Catz228 and kdcool and the local battle master Emma4556. They held weekly meetings at the site's chat room to decide what they would do to T.A.P. Then I joined the guild in February/March(?) (a few weeks after it had opened to NeoPets). I came to every meeting and even helped come up with our arcade idea (which was only half way completed but now everyone that visits the site can play Aisha based games).

In mid-May, Sithel (who only as a guild master did most of the leader work and was the main driving force behind T.A.P.) watched the "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" season finale and took a liking to the strange "Processed Cheese Guy". She even recited one of his lines, "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me!" at the last meeting in May (at this time I had just become a guild master and the guild's secretary). Well after this line was said everyone went hysterical and the meeting was a disaster. Instead of focussing on guild issues, we all slacked off and started acting like hyper little kids. Everyone was laughing and we had a blast.

The next day I logged onto the guild message board. It was usually filled with shop ads, meeting reminders and the occasional Aisha role playing game (which no one ever came to). But that day there was a new board titled "Sithel's Jabba Wabba "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me!" version 1.0". I clicked onto not realizing this board would lead to the revolution of T.A.P. The board read, "This Jabba Wabba board was made for people who like to be crazy, have fun and LUV Aishas! Keep the Jabba Wabba flowin'! -Sithel" I posted "Hi" and logged off. When I came back there was over 300 messages on the board, and almost every one of them was like what had been going on in the chat room the other day! After that T.A.P. was more about having fun!

The message board was full of fun ideas and of course Sithel's Jabba Wabba boards! There were new Jabba Wabba subjects such as the TAP dancing penguins, edible chopsticks that gave you magical wings, padded rooms, even kitchen item weaponry (that later became a club called "The Utensil Crew"), evil cheese, plaque fighting toothbrushes (later known as the "Toothbrush Patrol"), Evil Jell-O, colored goo, fairy dust, bread crust, cabbage-on-a-stick, the common practice of people standing on their noses and much more! Of course we roll played our Aishas to have even more fun! Everything was going great until July when the "Kiko Puddle" and T.A.P. got into a fight and there was a great war. Finally peace was made and Caila made her announcement that she was stepping down as leader. In September the final two (Emma4556 and myself, _ ashley _) were chosen and I won (it was a tie and Emma4556 gave the leadership to me, thanks Emms)! Now T.A.P. is back and better than ever! Please join now that you know we are no ordinary guild!

Note- Jabba Wabba is for the T.A.P. message boards only and I will find out if anyone has been illegally making them! Please Dkstriker, come back to T.A.P.! We all miss you!