acidic soap You ve just unzipped a DARK Collection and now you re wondering what it is you ve gotten yourself into First let us assure you this archive won t do anything nasty to your hard drive In fact consider the sectors holding these thousands of bytes of information blessed That s right BLESSED! BEHOLD THE DARK OF THE COVENANT! (Ok Indiana you can open your eyes now ) Bad puns aside (the *other* side sherlock) this mass of artwork you have before you represents the concentrated efforts of a gifted group of individuals (Oxymoron alert! Stand by to oxycute em! Zit on it and percolate mickeyfrickey!) Cut! This Introduction is all wrong! Scrap it start over! - thisisatraditionalcutlinebeingoverrunbypointlessexplanationkay - 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 beaten to death with the script What he *really* meant to say was DARK ILLUSTRATED MARCH 1997 COLLECTION THE UNDISPUTED TAI-PACK! Read on Group News! A hectic month for DARK Illustrated! First of all Senior Staff positions have been re-arranged Prison Breaker moves up from VGA Department Head to fill in the sacrosanct third Pimp-Daddy title (see the memberlist for details) Filling in as VGA Head is Burnout Though it took an unsettling quantity of mind-altering substances to get him to agree we feel the exertion he demonstrated in fighting the promotion will only be surpassed by his efforts to flee err lead the VGA Department to greater glories Grail and Purple Dye have opted to focus on web design and the last we heard from them couldn t be repeated to a young audience However we ve been assured the official web page *will* by available to the public shortly Taking over the ANSI Department is none other than Corinthian! He s sworn to The Unholy Lords of DARK he hasn t go a clue as to what he s doing and if the early reports of his progress are correct he s making good 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 they ll be strong-arming the weaker elements among you into paying tribute to the DARK cause (Pay the squeeze or Acidic Soap will smoke a cuban in your appartment Maybe two ) Straying into the sombre shadows of this menacing little art group is Fluor master of Sheep Sacrifice Have a stray bundle o wool wandering your Windows environment Fluor s the man to rid you of the scourge! Cash in advance DARK Support Sites The Lethal Aspect World Headquarters Xypher Matryx The Regency Internet Headquarters Halaster Mad Cows ! DARK Member Board Night Stalker Savage Exile DARK Member Board Acidic Soap Sight & Sound DARK Member Board Drone-Fly Special Sauce DARK Member Board Samurai Abraxas Diabolic DARK US Support Site Megga Hertz ABCD Cafe DARK Support Site Kyo Via the Internet DARK packs can be obtained from The Regency s FTP site at tregency res cmu edu or from the ACiD Artpacks Archive at ftp cdrom com ( pub artpacks incoming artpacks ) Most DARK members can be contacted 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 you ll find plenty of links on TLA Online at www interlog com xmtrx and the latest pack can be downloaded via a link at www darkillustrated org For more detailed information on DARK Illustrated DARK s own F A Q (Frequently Asked Questions) text file is included in this archive Filename DARK-FAQ 184 Filenames Filenames work like this XXXXX-## * XXXXX is a five-letter abbreviation of the artist s alias (Should the alias fall within five characters or less the entire alias will be used ) ## represents the current number of pieces the artist has produced for the year of 1997 * can be any valid extension for images executables data files or musical compositions The most common are DRK for ANSI images JPG GIF BMP etc for high-resolution graphic images and MOD S3M XM etc for music data files Finale! This concludes the March Collection Newsletter We hope you ve enjoyed the pack and we encourage you to leave whatever group(s) you re in and join DARK Illustrated In fact our Emperor the venerable Mao Tse PING demands it! The PING Dynasty lives on! We d 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! We re DARK Illustrated and you re not (Juvenile maybe but it s the truth by god!) PING!