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History Of Mist
Cthulu
91
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                        [ BORING HISTORY STUFF ]

        In the beginning, there were PAiN and POiSON, two small local (604)
art groups. One day, around the winter of '93, they decided to merge. So they
did. And the unholy spawn created from this demonic merger, this vast bloated
progeny of evilness, was called NWA, for New Wave Artists. The overwhelming
success of NWA in its home area code gave life to pitiful imitators, none of
whom lasted longer than several weeks. In any event, this promising fledgeling
group carried promise, yet was restricted to the 604. Then, one day, the
president of NWA, one "The Narccissist", now happy in NATiON and couriering
for us (hi chico!), and the foul trecherous president of a similar group
around Montreal, one "The Night Prowler", president of GRiP/AD (Graphic
Revolution in Progress/Art Division), decided to merge. The product of this
merger was iMPERiAL, which stood for nothing. However, it did quite well,
attracting many applicants throughout it's tumultuous 5-month lifespan. Under
the careful governing of The Narccissist and the slightly-less-careful
vice-governing of The Night Prowler, it grew in power, only suffering a slight
setback after the third month when its 3 best artists, Asian Knight, Vanquish,
and Darkforce left to NATiON, NATiON, and UNiON, respectively. In fact, we were
relaxing in the glow of our best pack ever, our fifth and final one, when,
mysteriously, 3 days after the release, the entire montreal side packed up and
left to Drift, a group founded by a former imp member, Twisted Terrorist,
formerly of ICE and convicted ANSI ripper. The Narccissist, despondent over the
loss of half of his group, decided to throw in the towel and fled to NATiON
along with what remained of iMPERiAL's big talent, The Masked Pirate, Young,
and Suicidal Maniac. The rest of iMP's 604 members (me, Summonner, Beatle,
Magik Elvis, and others) blinked our eyes in surprise. And we were doing so
well! Just this onth Imp had been rated the # 5 art group in the world by Blur
magazine. Number 5! But, enough whining, the time for that would come. We
needed to re-band the remaining members, and gather some new talent to replace
the old lost to Nation and Drift. So we did. The End. Now, wasn't that boring?

                      [ BIRTH OF A GROUP STUFF ]

        Anyhoo, we decided to make the group an experimental democratic
prototype where lots of voting goes on and every department is treated
fairly and smartly, so we elected department chairmen. A prez is voted each
month to throw in his deciding vote each month in case the chairs tie votes
in group policy. Now, all that remained was to choose a name. Well, we went
through many choices, from NAPiFORM (meaning turnip-shaped), to FiSH (blub
blub), but the three names that stuck were KiTHE (meaning eager to prove
oneself), KiTSCH (meaning to parody mainstream art), and MiSTiGRiS. We voted
for the last one, which requires a tad of interpretation. The word mistigris
is pronounced "Misty-gree", and is a variation of poker where the joker can
have any value. Now, viewed under the miraculous veil of interpretation, it
resolves to define the whole art scene as a simple card game, with us as the
jokers. However, we have potentially limitless value if we apply ourselves. I
like to interpret things, and write it down. That's why I'm a lit guy. Anyway,
we managed to salvage the name "KiTSCH" for our net, and "KiTHE" for the name
of this newsletter. Rejoice! In any event, all three names ended up being
used, so we don't wanna see any "KiTSCH"s or "KiTHE"s popping up next month.
Tsk tsk.

        Well, I've blathered entirely too much for this month. I shall simply
read out some of our policies, then let you be on your way. MiSTiGRiS would
like to become known as a place with a calming, relaxed atmosphere, where
artists can lay back and relax. Our membership rules are fairly flexible, and
all we ask is that you produce a quality piece of art at least every two
months. Members can feel free to leave any time to try to advance in the art
world, but any one who's fed up with all the crap in the scene out there is
free to quit whatever they're in and join MiST for a recuperative stint.
Members who do leave will be re-admitted at any time, but chances are that with
all the shit out there, they'll be back to stay. Repeat offenders may be viewed
with less respect, however. We doubt you'll find many other groups with as
relaxed policies as us, and, if you do, we'd like to merge with 'em. 8)
Seriously. However, there isn't much risk of that.



          To recap: (for all of you who didn't read the previous 3 pages of
                     mindless drivel)

                 o   MiSTiGRiS is a direct descendant of iMPERiAL

                 o   we are all nice guys

                 o   we would like to provide a comfortable haven for anyone
                     who feels hounded by all the shit in the scene right now.

                 o   members who leave will be re-accepted without questions

                 o   the group runs under a total democracy. if you don't like
                     the prez, or a policy, do something about it!

                 o   we welcome any one who comes to introduce new ways of
                     doing things, or who wants to try a new form of art and
                     not look foolish. we don't worry about looking foolish.

                 o   blub blub


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Business As Usual
Cthulu
46
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                BUSINESS AS USUAL:

        Newcomers this month: Everybody. No, I'm not going to get more
specific, this is a new group! Sheesh...

        Departures this month: Strangely enough, we have had a few departures
since this whole venture started, roughly a month ago. Tzeentch, formerly of
iMPERiAL, was a MiST member for about 3 days. Then he decided to try to get
into NATiON. Hope ya make it! Also, Illusionary Enigma and Eternal Silence
left our family here to our fiece rival group, PATRiOT. Grrr!

        UPDATE: Pestilence quit MiST for senior staffdom in RAiD and dragged
Inquisitor out with him. Oh well. Also, Admiral Skuttlebutt decided that the
art world sucks, and left forever..FOREVER! But he may still make guest
appearances from time to time... Tzeentch decided that he'd be nice and happy
in Mist, and decided not to go for Nation... And, finally, The Edge's computer
blew up, and he is incapable of drawing any more VGAs for a while. Aw.
Too bad.

        Projects in the works: We're doing something sneaky in our private
areas of KiTSCHNet...with a bit of ANSI, a bit of Lit...a bit of coding...and
a bit of music. But only Eerie knows for sure... OK, I'll give you a hint.
It's huge, furry, and likes destroying tanks. Heh heh...

        Questions: Why so much lit?
Well, when I, Cthulu the (l)owly lit writer started this group, i decided
that I'd like to be able to particiapate in it as well. So, unlike most of
the major groups out there today, we support lit. Not just standard BBS
named rhyming couplet type lit, like I do, but short stories like Livewire's
and Eoanya's, and rambling philosophical free verse such as Battered Crow's
and fUp's. If you don't like lit, then don't read them, but you might be
missing out... as I like to say, "ANSIs stimulate the eyes. Lits stimulate
the mind."

        Anything else?: Guest Appearances... occasionally, we may collaborate
with artists from other groups... as their art will be appearing in our pack,
yet they aren't members, we may as well mention them with an air of respect.
AY is a rather special case... he's minus' brother... he doesn't modem, so he
doesn't have any real reason to join a group... however, he DOES enjoy drawing
the occasional pic, so his works will be featured with us.

                                       -Cthulu
                                        MiSTiGRiS founder
                                        Sept. 12, 1994
                                        blub blub
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History of 418
Eerie
270
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i know, i know, i'm being boring with my four-one-eight fixation, but, eh,
that's where i live.. and this ac is so badly known.. you know why? hell,
418 is quebec city, canada. a french-speaking place. most people won't know
english so they write in french and their stuff can only be released in the
418 area, or the province of quebec. you'll say, well, 514 and 819 also are
in quebec.. yep, but lots of english-speaking persons live there and made
the scene advance a bit.. err.. anyway.. i want to show you the 418 scene..
(be prepared to next to nothing =)

                                        - Eerie
                                          Mist ansi artist and 418 dude


■ [ABC] Another Bad Creation
■ founder: Testament Collecter
■ duration: few months.. now dead.. pfffftt.

all ABC did in its own life was RIPPING, RIPPING and OVERRIPPING.. anyway.
it contained two members, Testament Collecter (a local fagboy) and Vlad
Drakul (a local lamer).. pfftt.. lemme laugh..

■ [ACE] ACE e-mag
■ founder: The Naughty Tycoon
■ duration: 12 issues, still alive

hey, I guess that's the only emag in the scene that talks about new
(alternative) music.. TNT, Photon and yours truly created it after
participating in 2 issues of EMM, another music magazine.
for now its in french, but starting from issue 13 (next issue!) it will be
in english! weeee!

■ [ACiD] Ansi Creators In Demand
■ founder: Rad Man i guess =)
■ duration: hum

ok, ACiD is not from the 418, but our local ansi hero, Slum Dweller, was
ACiD ss once.. so we must mention it. =)

■ [AJAX] AJAX
■ founder: no one knows
■ duration: 2 issues

this was a parody of XJAA emag.. (see below) one issue is in NpC, but NpC
members claims that they are not the authors of AJAX.

■ [ARiKA] ARiKA
■ founder: Zoltar
■ duration: i dunno, ask zolt =) changed name to Slime

ARiKA changed his name to Slime a few months after being created.. anyway.
it's just another ansi group =)

■ [ARt] ARt (dont remember the exact signification)
■ founder: Skyzofren
■ duration: few months, no packs

did this group ever did something? i think i've been a member. but i don't
remember.

■ [ASK] Ansi Staff Kreators
■ founder: Lucyfer
■ duration: few months, no packs, dead

ASK was the first ansi group in the 418.. i've been in it, TNT too.. it was
fun. it started, like.. humm.. 1991 i think. yea, in the old-school days.
sigh.

■ [ASTEK] Ansi Staff To Eternal Kreations
■ founder: Astral Buster
■ duration: 2 packs, a few months, dead

definitely the biggest group in the 418, since almost all talented artists
from the ac went into this group sometimes.. Youngblood (now he's called
Young =) who went to Imperial and is now in Nation (for how much time?),
The Extremist, who is freelancer, The Naughty Tycoon, who is now in MiST,
jaydee who is now in Relic, and myself.. other talented artists who are out
of the scene now are Astral Buster, Lucyfer, Skyzofren, Mystical Avenger,
etc.

■ [AXE] AtomiXoftarE
■ founders: Lucyfer and i
■ duration: few months

AXE was somewhat associated with ASK.. this was the first group i used for
the programs i released.. then i quitted and started my own group
Beyondware, and then released everything under the label TFL, and now i'm
releasing everything as independent =)

■ [BARE] Burning Art of Rare Excellence
■ founder: The Extremist
■ duration: few months

bah, TE signed his ansis with the label BARE.. that's not really a group
then.. =)

■ [Beyondware] Beyondware
■ founder: i.. and Skyzofren
■ duration: few proggies, few months, now dead

look under AXE to understand what Beyondware was =)

■ [Blood] Blood emag
■ founder: Blood Sucker
■ duration: 1 issue i guess. hopefully its dead now

Blood is one of the NpC wanna-be, H/P/A mags.. it sucked..

■ [CTBK] Ctrl-Break
■ founders: Dynamix and Skyzofren
■ duration: 2 issues.. duh.. hopefully dead

ok ok.. i was called Dynamix in that good old times.. this was a rather
lame emag.. damndamndamn.. why am i putting it in the list then? ohwell..
(anyway, because of a hd crash, i dont have them anymore.. sorry =)

■ [EMM] EleKtriK MuZiK MagaZine
■ founder: Bilbo
■ duration: 8 issues, still alive?

another music emag.. this one talks about general music tho. it was founded
before ACE. the first issue was in english, but then everything turned
french.. =) anyway.. i think they are preparing issue 9, but i'm really
unsure. would be fun.. a bit more competition for ACE =)

■ [HAS] Hacker Anonyme Society
■ founders: Berzeker and Android
■ duration: 1 issue, dead.

this is the other NpC wanna-be emag.. speaking of h/p/a and such.. eh.
whatever. just to mention that Android is a local pd lamer.. =)

■ [iLSD] iLL-Legal Speech Digest
■ founder: l0gRuS!
■ duration: the promo issue =)

iLSD was itended to be a general emag.. but no one submitted anything so
nothing got released =)

■ [iMP] Imperial
■ founders: The Narcissist and The Night Prowler
■ duration: 5 months, 5 packs.. now DEAD

ok.. let's mention that 2 418 guys were in Imperial, Young and i.. eh.. =)

■ [KBM] Kobudera Black Magic
■ founder: Kobudera Master? nobody really knows
■ duration: 4 issues, dead

another NpC wanna-be emag.

■ [KOD] Kult Of Darkness
■ founder: l0gRuS!
■ duration: 1 issue, dead

no one knows about this emag, cepted that one issue is in an early NpC
issue. but i dont have the courage to find it.

■ [Kill] Kill
■ founder: Bilbo
■ duration: 1 issue, still alive

Kill is a new emag, containing exclusively buffers on lamers and others..
funny no?

■ [NpC] Northern Phun Co.
■ founder: Blitzkrieg
■ duration: 15 issues, now dead

prolly the emag that lasted more in the 418.. of course its an h/p/whatever
emag.. it was cool. but now the writers retired from the h/p scene to put
up an internet node called LLC.. duh..

■ [NpShit] Northern Phif Shit
■ founder: unknown
■ duration: 3 issues

NpShit released his first issue (issue 4) some weeks after NpC released
their issue 3.. it was some kind of hilarious parody.. then 2 other issues
came out. eh..

■ [NSI] The Ansi Institute
■ founder: Dynamix
■ duration: 1 issue and 1 promo

NSI was some kind of project i put on (i was called Dynamix in these times,
but used Eerie as a handle when drawing.. eh.) to show off talents of all
ansi artists in the ac.. however, it failed.. bah, the first issue is
interesting anyway..

■ [PHoBiA] PHoBiA
■ founder: The Naughty Tycoon, Testament Collecter and Flavor Flav
■ duration: few months, one pack.

PHoBiA has been founded a little after ARt.. it even has sites in the usa..
weird no? anyway, they released one pack..

■ [Relic] Relic
■ founder: Jello
■ duration: a year or so.. still alive

just to mention that two 418 dudes are in relic.. jaydee and yours truly..
eh =)

■ [Rx] Rx
■ founders: Eerie, Skyzofren, Lucyfer
■ duration: bah..

we started Rx when quitting ASTEK. but in fact, we never produced anything
else than ansis for our own board.. bah..

■ [SiWDRY] SiWDRY
■ founders: Virus and New Order
■ duration: forever

SiWDRY is a joke group, consisting on the "merge" of SiW and DRY.. they
never released anything but an ad or two for my board =) and they suck bad
ehehe

■ [Slime] Slime
■ founder: Zoltar
■ duration: few months, no pack out.. still alive?

ok. Zoltar decided to start this group and some people joined, such as
Diamond Traveller.. but it's a really lazy group and those two guys were
the only who would produce..

■ [TFL] Third Floor Laboratories
■ founder: myself
■ duration: few months

the third name i used for my programs.. damn.. this is boring..

■ [TTM] The TroubleMaker
■ founder: same as NpShit
■ duration: 3 issues

the guys who made NpShit created another "mag" later.. then again, there
was a parody of Android, a local lamer, a fake imitation of a door made by
another local lamer, Derf, etc.. wuz cool..

■ [ULRi-ABC] United Lame Ripping Incorporated - Another Bad Creation
■ founder: The Naughty Tycoon
■ duration: 1 issue

this was mainly to show that ABC was actually ripping.

■ [URLi-AST] URLi-ASTEK
■ founder: Testament Collecter
■ duration: 1 issue

this was TC's ripost.. in the only issue, he says hat ASTEK ripped an ACiD
ansi.. because both were drawing the same character, the fucking shitty
SPAWN.. eh. lamer forever..

■ [XJAA] Xpress Journal Anti-Anarchiste
■ founder: Xyster
■ duration: no issue out..

althought 2 issues of the parody AJAX were released, no issue of XJAA went
out.. eh =) it was intended to be an anti-anarchist emag about hacking.
wow. that's not a joke..

■ [Young] Young
■ founder: Youngblood
■ duration: ehhh.. no one really knows =)

back in the times Young was called Youngblood, he started his group called
Young.. weird, eh? (young's gonna kill me for that one =)

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An Outsiders View
Beatle
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a view from an 'outsider'
- by beatle

     The art scene these days seems a little lacking.  It consists of no more
then a bunch of ego maniacs who only wish to release ansis under the name of
some group..  Now of course the person who is the head of this group gets the
highest acclaim.. again leading to delusions of grandeur.

     Let I remind the cyberspacial community that artists don't have to label
their goods.  Because I have a piece of art that says acid at the bottom mean
that I am any good?  No.

     Did pablo picasso try to join a group and fit in?
     Did Gogh try and join a group and fit in?

     In my own personal view the entire business of art groups is silly.  Is
the only way an artist can be seen by playing the elite game, and boosting
already over boosted egos?

               beatle - [SUiCiDE][PAiN][NWa][iMP][MiST]
---
My view of mist...

I think mist can be a very good thing.
If it is more of a gallery then a group.

think about that.

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ThanksgivingStory
LiveWire
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   You eat your Thanksgiving dinner (although these days, thanks are optional)
and then what do you do?  Why, of course, you go lie down in a comfy chair with
one hand in your pants (men only).  Why?  Because, as modern science has
discovered, turkeys contain a certain endorphine that causes drowsiness.  Thus,
after eating enough turkey, you'll get drowsy and fall asleep.  (Usually in
front of a good hockey game, but this year's NHL contract difficulties have
precluded that option) :(

   So why do turkeys contain this endorphine?  Well, I found out many years
ago, when I lived on the farm.  It was mid-september, and it was late
afternoon; we were just getting everything put away, and getting ready to wash
up for dinner.  As I was penning up the animals, one of the turkeys got loose.
Not a problem, I just had to run after it.  This one had a good head start
though, so I got my jacket, expecting to be out for at least a couple of hourws
in the forest.  After about 15 minutes, I managed to catch up with the renegade
farm fowl, when suddenly, to my horror, it was attacked by a wolf.  I ducked
behind a tree, hoping like hell it would devour the turkey, and leave me alone.
 Luckily, it did just this, and loped off in the direction it had come from.  I
stepped out to examine the remains of the turkey.  It was well picked over.
Only a few bones and its feathers remained.  A sudden sound behind me gave me a
start, and thinking it might be another predator, I leapt into the bushes to
hide.  To my utter shock, it was in fact a small group of turkeys.  I couldn't
tell, due to the waning light, whether they were ours or not.

   After they had passed, I came out of hiding, and followed them down the
trail.  About two miles later, the turkeys stopped.  They began to spread out,
silently advancing on a nearby bush.  Without warning, they pounced on it, and
began tearing it apart.  I was amazed to see the wolf, lying under the bush
sleeping, was suddenly being assaulted by this pack of wild turkeys.  They were
ripping off its flesh, pecking it eyes out... I can not describe the horror.
When they were done, not a scrap remained.  Even the bones had been chewed up
and swallowed.  White-faced and shivering, I made my way home, quietly as
possible, so as not to alarm the turkeys.

   Since that day, I have a newfound respect for turkeys, and after a big
Thanksgiving dinner, I sleep with a loaded magnum under the seat cushion, to
blow away any killer turkeys, or annoying, unwanted house guests.
    +  END  +
     -Travis

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!


Pic by Phaze <independant>
Story by Livewire <MiST>
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