the blade nation presents gj+mci the edge is a propaganda vehicle for the blade nation welcome to our revolution the edge - the blade informational textfile - volume 3 issue 12 the end of the original - an infinite spawn of new reality contents -- the edge volume three issue twelve the blade nation february ninety seven our affiliates february ninety seven come to me i ll be your guardian angel elcome to the february edition of our collective consciousness this epic marks the last of our third year of existance the blade nation has come a long way in those three years and we plan to take it even further as we gaze upon the future and the dawning of an infinite plane of reality as the new millennium approaches as if our life to this point hasn t been exciting enough what lies ahead for the members of our clan will spark the release of our kinetic energy as we strive to not only provide the world with the visual and audio representations of our souls but also the wisdom of our minds it is in the time when the world seems most doomed that we leave it up to a small band of merciless visionaries to reform our collective existance enter the blade nation in your time of infinite despair come to us we ll be your guardian angels - mindcrime of the blade nation hack the heads off little girls and put them on my wall he screaming wontons air hockey team was out in full force earlier this month as we celebrated edicius s trip to dutchland we shipped him off there to not only aquire a toadload of stuff for the blade nation but also to get his bitchy little ass out of our hair anyways we had an all out war night with several members of the team playing upwards of seven games a piece mindcrime seen to the left who was full of angst donned his amazingly decorated low-top ANGST MALLET (tm) and acted the part of the bus driver taking EVERYONE to school the current rankings are as follows - 1 mindcrime 2 dimes 3 belial 4 grey hawk 2 to 231 5 jason 6 edicius 7 krypt0 8 cappacino this weekend the team travels to skidmore college to face dimes on his home court play that beat play that beat BANG! s the oonce played through our head one day we decided what a spectacular idea it would be to have our very own blade music disk! that s right folks we ve spawned a race of superhuman trackers and they re coming out in full force officially named revelation the division formerly known as blade music is working hard to bring you the most amazing computer generated tunes you ve ever heard the talent in this division is incredible so be looking for the music disk sometime during the next month or so doing just for the cause lade productions in an unparalled move has deployed a team of supernaturally enhanced life forms armed with specialled designed neutron splatter guns to sieze control of the planet jupiter the members of the blade nation realizing their full potential have expanded their horizons we no longer desire to control just this lowly planet earth but the entire universe the blade nation fully plans on bringing ultimate peace to this entire plane of existance and perhaps even other ones as well reached for comment the leader of the blade nation mindcrime had this to say we re just doing what we can to make this world er universe a better place SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM! GRRRRRRRRRRR Heh sorry i ve always wanted to do that on camera the sign said that long haired freaky people need not apply you can t fire eople just don t seem to get it you me just don t LEAVE the blade nation it s i quit! dumb! if you were in a group of people hellbent on ruling the world wouldn t you stay well hell we beat em to the punch this month with our amazing telepathic powers we determined who was on the verge of quitting and we just kicked em right the fuck out kyo was kicked in the ass and told not to let the bankick hit him on the way out seems his sorry ass was so far away out in the hawaiian jungle that he just couldn t grasp hanging out with a bunch of mainlanders BLEH! xEDGEx was brought out back and shot to death the natural was caught in the sack with edicius s new girlfriend and was promptly expelled from the group needless to say edi will never be the same again spear was all bitching about how the scene sucked and all and we just KNEW he was about to hang up the ole boxer shorts and take a nude dive into that thing called real life so we smacked him with a fuckstick and sent him on his way black lipstick stains her glass of red wine our all too goth! and so are all our new members of whose blood we have been drinking for the past month in celebration of their joining of our illustrious team just think you too can be goth! just join the blade nation and you ll be an honorary goth person! fractal prances around the blade nation in a black dress because he s not only goth he s a queerie the emperor is busy coding a goth screen saver or something it may even be an almighty blade nation utility for creating letter bombs the mage is one of those euro-goth s he s goofy and likes to code dark and gothic demos and loaders trobriand who joined last month but i think i forgot to mention him likes to track alot of goth music be my druidess trobriand i can hold the world in my virtual hand hich brings us to the end of our journey through the month of february not a bad month if i do say so myself but next month i d emplore you to be ready for an all out art explosion in celebration of three years of blade productions until then my friends be excellent to each other oh and if you re wondering where the usual wacky and zany issue of the edge went then you re lame! actually we decided to take a break from the nuttiness as it was getting sorta old but worry not keen observer for next month we shall have something new and improved as we work the entire month JUST to bring you another exciting edition of your favorite art group info file - mindcrime of the blade nation NAME THAT OONCE! 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