Brighter than Twilight! Cooler than iCE! More ansis than ACiD! The Night Angel Fire Ansi Fire news for February 1997 God among Lice ascends the podium stairs Wow It s been one hell of an interesting month for fire If you ve only recently awakened from hibernation and or skipped over the intro line above then you may not know that we re under new management The night of our last pack release Halaster was talking to Eerie and I about things and eventually somehow got it into his head that he wanted to step down as fire president Try as we may we could not stop him Hal s final ultimatum declared that he would revert to the status of ansi artist and that I should run Fire with Eerie as Fire s ansi coordinator In the ensuing weeks lots of stuff happened and I found out just what it s like to run a considerable sized art group I now hold a much deeper respect for Halaster and all other leaders who have put any amount of serious effort into an art group In the past month we ve revived Fire Ascii under the new leadership of Pariah Half way through the month I had some misgivings about having revived the ascii department but Pariah ended up doing an excellent job at his new post and I m behind Fire Ascii 100% These guys are out to shove around the boundaries of Ascii in the traditional sense and I think they should be turning some heads in the near future We ve also begun a project to create a new Fire music division Aylek Trique (formerly Young) will be the head although currently the division is only in its formative stages Look for some more boundary-busting when these guys start releasing We ve also got a goodly number of new members to announce this month but I ll leave the rest of the nitty-gritty details to our division heads So without further ado lGiOcDe falls off the podium and onto his back as 33 elbows his way on Sup yo du0d this is your pal Eerie & his funky contribution to the notoriously icy cool Fire Newsletter We ve got alot of new members this month in the ansi division for some psyched out reason so here s the smack 1) Avenger -- Here s the facts Avenger is from the mecca of electronica Germany That s in Europe & that s why it rules so hard He s into logos too & when he doesn t contribute to the critically acclaimed Mean Scheme packs he graces Fire with some of his dope art Check him out baby 2) Fever -- You probably know him already or else please get out of that closet While he s still contributing to the most excellent group Rile with his original pieces his comic rips will find a way in here And well the kid can draw that s a fact 3) Fire From Heaven -- Known on IRC under the overly cryptic nick twoxfh Fire From Heaven comes in from Fuel with his fresh surreal style that will make you fall on your butt & *HURT ALOT* The though shit being he couldn t do anything in time for this pack & you know what that s strictly Grimlock s fault Yeah that s right 4) Ville -- Coming over from Blend Ville brings in one of the most fresh styles you can find right now in the scene That kid doesn t just rule he also KICKS YOUR ASS Is that enough said YEP We at Fire would also like to tell you to go check out Dieznyik s very cool zine Lo-Rez #1 & #2 for two great in-depth interviews of Ville & Zircus respectively The fans love it Oh & while I m at it I ll do a cheap plug for Ampersand my ansi scene dedicated web page The URL is http www dto net ampersand -- Eerie (aijaa@geocities com) Eerie-MC is outta here but here s the Pa-ri-uh with the freaky style that chicks all around dig (I guess) hAji _ __ qydli qyp __ qd$$ $$$$88 ilS8 8$$b $$$$88 1$$ y55$$ il y55$$ 1$$ 1$$ $$1 $$$P lS1 _ $8P $$1 $$$ qyd S8$ qyd$$$$$( $$$ qyd 1$$ 1$$ 4$$b _ 4$ $$1 55$ ii $$1 55$$$h 8$$$b 11 __ _ $$$ $$$$ lli $$$ 1$$$$$ $$$$b$$ qyd$$$$88 88b 7$$ 88l $$$$$$$g 188 )8 qyyyy$$$$$$$$$8 SP 8$$$$$$$$$( we re back bEEITCH#!@ l( 7$$$$$$$ 4li )$$$$$P i $$$P 7$h 7h Well Fire!Ascii is 7 back in the ascii scene under new leadership and with new talented members As you all know Blatz ran Fire!ascii for almost a year until it was killed off when he left and nobody took control of it With Fire now under new leadership it was decided that Fire s ascii department wouldbe revived That brings us to this release If you do not know who I am yet I ll briefly go over my group history My alias is Pariah and I ve been in Acid Blade Noname Rile Soap & Wicked This month we recieved several applications to Fire!a and accepted some and were forced to deny others The members who currently make up Fire!a are 1) Pariah -- That odd guy Pariah weird guy i tell you From Eclipse Soap Draws anscii or wholetype 2) Empty -- Ex-head of CIA s ascii department has a lot of talent and stuck with the old Fire!a till the end 3) Haji -- Was with me in Eclipse I think you all know Haji and his original asciis a great asciist all around 4) Risu -- Ex-Blade Noname member Another very creative ascii artist 5) The Emperor -- Ex-Vinyl artist Was with Fire!a almost as long as Blatz was and stuck with it to the very end Another good asciist That does seem a little skimpy but we had to let early applicants Risc and Khoon go due to a quality purge We here at Fire!a unlike several other group divisions ascii groups have decided that quality is in fact better than quantity and that we will enforce that rule when regarding new applicants However we do look on improving the size of our memberlist with the upcoming release Also some special notices Haji is the Fire!a quality advisor who helps me decide on new applications and the such The Emperor is the Fire!a senior advisor who helps me with those questions that require experience A lot of people seemed confused as to what WHOLEtype is and what its relation to Fire!a is WHOLEtype is the style of drawing ascii without influence and with the number one ideal being originality WHOLEtype s relation to Fire!a is only to the extent that all Fire!a members in now and those who join in the future must be original artists WHOLEtype is not a new genre of ascii and Fire!a is not a new genre of ascii department we simply are all quality artists who are producing art for the love of doing it which gives us oppurtunities that other departments groups cannot attain Although this was not as big as a release as I had planned In the next pack look for more members the Fire!a super joint combining all artists and all their individual styles some guest appearances and best of all original art -- pariahFIRE(ascii coordinator) pariah@phoenix ml org ____ -------- ___ -------- ___ --------- _______ __ ------ ___ _______ __ ___________ _ _ _ __ ___________ _ _ ___ ___________ _ _ ____________ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ -- ________ - __ _ _ _ __ ------ _ ____ ________ mHz ------- ____ ----- fIRE!aSCII ----- ____ Thanks to mHz for this masterful oldschool Fire!a is a division of FIRE(tm) productions *** So Pariah s out & here s the God he s among Lice you don t mess with that With all of the hub-bub going on with the rest of fire and all the little details involved I almost forgot that I ran a hirez division! The hirez guys don t need me to tell them what to do though and the team managed to pull out a great performance Most notably Fathom is back to his releasing ways and graced us with his presence for our march release Also this month we welcome Flux to our band of merry wanderers (er something like that ) The two of us are planning to work together to create some wicked photomanipulation using gasp original photographs! I also plan to encourage our hirez members to participate in more frequent collaborative projects of their own So go do it guys Some news about fireweb we re getting a domain pretty soon so someday you ll all be able to peck out http www fireweb org and be all impressed and stuff You can currently access fireweb by pointing your browser at http patrio net panacea We ve had a facelift so check it out Enjoy the art -- god among lice The extremist blurts out from the crowd Things have been pretty slow since I took over PyroNet Only got some new nodes in but hey it s only been 3 weeks For those who didn t get the pyronet pack number three let s just say the the net is back on-line and that I The ExtremisT am the current coordinator If you don t have or don t want to spend the money to poll LD there is something me and Silverthorn are working on automated e-mail transfers Once the setup is made you don t have to touch anything TransX takes your mail directly from your outbound dirs mails it to the right address gets the packets that are waiting in your mailbox (but leaves the rest of your e-mail untouched) and puts them back in your inbound dirs All you have to do is rescan your dirs and voil ! Pyronet for free If you are interested put your pointer on http www multiboard com transx html and download TransX and one of the two versions of TxMAILER that suits you well (DOS or Win95) If you have problems installing the programs e-mail me I should write up a quick installation doc with Silverthorn shortly or whatever Be sure to apply to pyronet to see if you are accepted BEFORE installing TransX tho (or just don t apply to pyronet install TransX and use it for your other nets! ) Check out pyro04 zip to apply to Pyronet and stuff I m sure you are craving to write messages to people as nifty as us!@# -L Extr miste lGiOcDe returns What a rush it is to put this pack together It really is WAY more exciting than sitting around and waiting until the chief mileti comes popping out of nowhere to offer the pack To be right in the thick of things to be racing around getting stuff organized into one cohesive whole at 3am while knowing that you have an ill-prepared for exam the next morning to have before you the who-knows-how-many hours worth of time and effort spent by a bunch of kids who s only real goal is to have some fun and draw together THAT is truly a unique experience that I never really understood until now Jesse I don t know how you could want to leave it other than to give someone else a chance to experience it and for that I thank you God among Lice