Touching A Nerve on HomeLan is a an article based on a conversation with Brandon "KillMe" James, the former id Software and Rogue Entertainment designer who is now president of his own company, Nerve Software. Nerve, of course, was recently revealed to be the company who will be behind the multiplayer component of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the upcoming remake of Wolfenstein 3-D being constructed by Gray Matter Studios under the watchful eye of id Software. Topics include the events that lead to the demise of Rogue, the lessons he took from that to prevent the same fate from befalling Nerve, some details on their work on the Castle Wolfenstein project, and even a few scant references to their planned follow-up project, "the untitled multiplayer cooperative project for id." The article goes on to speculate what, if any, of that follow-up project will turn out to be similar to what has been discussed of id's one-time intention to realize their "Quest" project, which would be some form of virtual world.