ts mist s gr m i l fire cth o m t 0 a r p1 t c tu h e ice int Miscellanea What s New and Improved for the September 1995 Teklordz Artiphaks Nope this month s pack isn t late Because of previous delayed packs we have decided to release our compilations on the 15th of every month Some new stuff A few people have asked me for sites First of all we no longer give out distros We figured that IRC works fine enough and it seems that our packs manage to get around regardless Secondly i ll reiterate something that was said before-- our HQ list was completely purged prior to the 0795 release Our HQs are now called cartels and are only given to members Members can request to be a Teklordz Cartel by emailing Smooth (smooth@pixi com) via the internet So if you either want a distro or are a non-member requesting a Cartel don t even try to request one because we will not even bother responding D A bit of bad news I reluctantly had to cut our TL Trial division from the memberlist School and work now leaves me little free time to run the group and do my submissions for the month Smooth is still out cold as far as the group is going Just recently he too went back to school to get his Associate s degree So basically it leaves me all by me lonesome Well err maybe not that bad 8) Another bit of lousy news Sabo Fast Eddie Tage left us for Saga to be their public relations man They didn t allow him to dual group and frankly neither would we We wish Sabotage the best of luck over in Saga may he rise to be the best err PR guy around ) Welp we got ourselves some new members this month Not sure if i mentioned it in the last pack but we picked up Shroom an all-around cool guy and a potentially good artist comin at us from Devotion Ironic is it not g Also coming out of Motion we got a new member-- OTron another really nice guy and good artist to whom unfortunately i did not get to speak to on IRC for very long ( Some other new stuff TheShapeInTheShadows (aka tsits) was promoted to Telecom Coordinator While Defective Mind was demoted to regular telecom we brought him on as an ansi artist-- apparently this guy is more talented than he realizes check out the pack for some of his fonts which imo are pretty farking good for someone who hasn t been doing it long Also Stimpy our cool coder-guy was promoted to Coding Coordinator Umm a message to Tranx and Graff (sp ) e-mail me over at myee@hawaii edu so i can get you in contact with Stimpeerino We ve got some projects in the works and he needs your help 8) Umm some other stuff We re currently in the process of setting up a Teklordz Web Site I had one for a little while then my school s system slapped an account quota one day so i deleted it Smooth is setting the main page up on his site-- http www pixi com smooth and I am setting up the pack index (from 0795 on) on my acct-- http www2 hawaii edu myee Hopefully Smooth will get those links up soon and you won t have to type stuff twice ) Some people have asked me if Teklordz is dead yet I tell them that we are FAR from dying Although TL is not yet up to par with some of the better groups in the scene at least now we are at a position where we can only improve Some have wondered why I continue to stay in Teklordz which seemingly has no future in the eyes of those who desire instant fame But I have never felt that instant success ever lasts long If anything instant success is a short an abrupt and a painfully ingratifying experience That will not be the way with Teklordz If it so requires the group will slowly build its following In the process members gain an affinity for one another not found in many groups and they mature both as individuals and as a group over time -ts -TekLordz Pung Coordinator -Sept 5 1995 Some last minute info Smooth has quit Legend and is now 1oo% Teklordz Nev- ertheless you might not see much from him since now he s back in school pursu- ing an Associate s degree in either graphic or computer arts i forget which In other news we got a new member a very talented VGA artist Tsunami TL greets Smooth aMp Mojo Extreme Seize OTron Defective Mind Tsits Shroom Stimpy and to all others i probably forgot but hey that s what happens when you spend a good six hours of a day doing mindless data entry g ts