acidic soap
Youve j
ust unzipped a DARK Collection, and now
youre wonde
ring what it is youve gotten yourself into.
First, let us assure y
ou this archive wont do anything nasty to
your hard drive. In f
act, consider the sectors holding these
thousands of bytes of
information blessed. Thats right, BLESSED!
BEHOLD, THE DARK OF T
HE COVENANT!
Ok Indiana, you can open yo
ur eyes now.
Bad puns aside the *other*
side, sherlock, this mass of artwork
you have before you represen
ts the concentrated efforts of a
gifted group of individuals.
Oxymoron alert! Stand by to
oxycuteem! Zit on it and p
ercolate, mickeyfrickey!
Cut! This Introduction is a
ll wrong! Scrap it, start over!
-thisisatraditionalcutlineb
eingoverrunbypointlessexplanationkay-
From the ominous corners of
the Congo, to the depths of the ocean
floor, the alleyways of the
inner city and the heavens above, we
bring you:
TOILET DUCK! narrator is b
eaten to death with the script
What he *really* meant to s
ay was...
DARK ILLUSTRATED, MAR
CH 1997 COLLECTION, THE UNDISPUTED TAI-PACK!
Read on...
Group
News!
A hectic month for DARK Illustrat
ed! First of all, Senior Staff
position
s have been re-arranged. Prison Breaker moves
up from
VGA Departme
nt Head to fill in the sacrosanct third Pimp-Daddy
title. se
e the memberlist for details
Filling in as VGA Head
is Burnout. Though it took an unsettling
quantity of mind-alter
ing substances to get him to agree, we
feel the exertion he d
emonstrated in fighting the promotion will
only be surpassed by his eff
orts to flee... err... lead the VGA
Department to greater glorie
Grail and
Purple Dye have opted to focus on web design, and the
last we heard from them coul
dnt be repeated to a young audience.
However, weve been as
sured the official web page *will* by
available to the public shor
tly.
Taking over the ANSI D
epartment is none other than Corinthian!
Hes sworn to The Unholy Lor
ds of DARK he hasnt go a clue as to
what hes doing, and if the
early reports of his progress are
correct, hes making g
ood with that promise!
Our Thug Enforcer Division
aka: Coordinators has been given a
boost! Cyber X
is accompanied by Acidic Soap and
Armageddon
Donut, and theyl
l be strong-arming the weaker elements among
you into paying tribute to t
he DARK cause. Pay the squeeze or
Acidic Soap will smoke a cub
an in your appartment. Maybe two.
Straying into the sombre sha
dows of this menacing little art
group is Fluor, m
aster of Sheep Sacrifice. Have a stray bundle
owool wandering your Window
s environment? Fluors the man to
rid you of the scourge! Cash in adv
ance.
DARK
Support Sites
The Lethal Aspect
World Headquarters Xypher Matryx
T
he Regency Internet Headquarters
Halaster
Mad Cows?!?
DARK Member Board Night Stalker
Savage Exil
e DARK Member Board Acidic Soap
Sight Sound DARK
Member Board Drone-Fly
Special Sauce DARK
Member Board Samurai
Abraxas/Diabolic D
ARK US Support Site Megga Hertz
ABCD Cafe DARK Sup
port Site Kyo
Via the Internet, DARK packs
can be obtained from The Regencys
FTP site, at
tregency.res.cmu.edu, or from the ACiD Artpack
Archive at ftp.cdrom.
com /pub/artpacks/incoming/artpacks/
Most DARK members can be con
tacted through e-mail addresses
available in the memberlist
, and some may be found lurking on the
IRC, in channel dark
. EFnet
On the World Wide Web
, youll find plenty of links on TLA Online
at www.interlog.com/
xmtrx, and the latest pack can be downloaded
via a link at www.dar
killustrated.org.
For more detailed informatio
n on DARK Illustrated, DARKs own
F.A.Q. Frequently Asked Que
stions text file is included in this
archive. Filename: DARK-FAQ.184
Fi
lenames
Filenames work like this:
is a five-letter abbreviation of the artists a
lias.
Should the
alias fall within five characters or less, the entire
alias will be used.
rep
resents the current number of pieces the artist has produc
ed
for the year of 1997.
* can be any
valid extension for images, executables, data files,
or musical compositions. Th
e most common are DRK for ANSI images,
JPG/GIF
/BMP/etc... for high-resolution graphic im
ages, and MOD/
S3M/XM/etc...
for music data files.
F
inale!
This concludes the March Collecti
on Newsletter. We hope youve
enjoyed
the pack, and we encourage you to leave whatever groups
youre in, a
nd join DARK Illustrated. In fact, our Emperor
, the
venerable M
ao Tse PING, demands it! The PING Dynasty lives on!
Wed like to thank
Acidic Soap for the spiffy graphics he drew
for the Memberlist and
Newsletter, and Corinthian for all his
efforts over the past
month.
Reminder! Were DARK
Illustrated, and youre not. Juvenile
maybe, but its the truth, b
y god! PING!