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a noise a slight vibration The needle twitches like a severed limb Almost imperceptible but there This is comforting Monitor Six - increase zoom Eight-hundred percent Yes yes The bus approaches I twitch like the needle in anticipation as my agents scramble into readiness Garages open in synchronicity expelling vehicles which begin to circle the block like drones Hired men crawl out of open windows and sewer grates to begin their short lives as hot dog vendors businessmen and paperboys Ready! ready my children Stand true he approaches Don t expose your cover - make me proud and I will reward you I gather my arms around myself and survey my eight observation globes expectantly I click and pop as my many joints tense in anticipation As the yellow vehicle comes into normal sight range a fistfight erupts between two agents who collide as they go through the motions Overenthusiastic children each hoping to serve me more effectively than the last I sigh in pity extending a long stiff arm and depressing a button with a decicive click Looking back to the monitor the two offenders have disappeared from sight as five red-tinted manhole covers fall back into place That was close The bus is at hand - we must be prepared With exaggerated care the bus begins to pull into the terminal The machinery screams then whines theen grinds to a halt I click impatiently A form is visible behind the dusted glass of the door It decends and the portal cracks an aperture Haltingly it unfolds without grace The man is seen at last Visage pressed to cold glass I count his footfalls One two after the third as calculated and simulated eight-hundred times nylon cables shoot at his legs Ensnared he twists in the air like a bird with clipped wings In slow motion he rotates and invariably gives a loveless embrace to the eatth as they always do Though I am far gone I am not such to such a degree where I cannot find a little morbid humour in this display and I express it accordingly with a low chittering laugh I was familiar enough with the wire-frame model s acrobatics but somehow the intimacy with the process was fulfilled by the realization of the genuine act Immediately upon landing two of the nearest agents rush up to his side inconspicuously clipping the cord with blades strapped to their palms and they help him up Shrugging off incoherant niceties they escort him as rehearsed down the street to his unxpected but inevitable destination Welcome to my parlour Hi and welcome to the next stop on the Mistigris world tour! This pack needs a little explaining before we go on any further In case you haven t figured it out yet Mistigris has been having a tour around the scene for the past few months What this means is that each month Mistigris releases their artwork alongside that of another group arranged ahead of time Fire has been the biggest show so far for Mistigris so we ve done our best to make this pack as special as possible Inside you ll find a number of collaborative pieces between fire and mistigris members as well as some media which are not normally released with fire packs namely lit and music The topic of music brings me to my second point of interest Fire s newly formed music division Radiance will soon be releasing their first music disk Following a mistigris tour tradition one song by a mist member will be included with the fire pack This leaves the rest of the mistigris music to be released with the Radiance disk so be sure to catch it on your favorite scene-related site Speaking of sites FireWeb is of course still up and running Point your browser to http patriot net panacea to get the latest fire news and current member list We re currently looking for someplace that could host fireweb org cheap or for free once we have registered the name If you can help us out in any way it would be greatly appreciated Ok so the news isn t really arranged in order of importance This month we were unfortunate to lose both our ansi coordinator and an ansi legend when Eerie decided to call it quits with fire a few weeks ago I still don t have much of an idea exactly what he s currently doing with his extra time but we wish him luck in whatever he decides to pursue Filling Eerie s enormous shoes is Nail who i m sure will be more than able to fulfill the duties involved with the position of ansi coordinator Nail s german ancestry allowed him to be easily lured to the post once we came up with our Heineken and Hasslehoff incentive plan A special thanks to The Extremist for helping out by being our temporary ansi coord while Eerie s official decision was still uncertain and for filling in for nail again during pack time Partly in response to Text s proven coordination ability over the past month I ve assigned him to our new post as communications coordinator Text will be keeping track of our bulletin board HQ and distro site list as well as a member list with names and phone numbers for as many people as we can If you haven t already find The Extremist and give him your info (if you re in fire of course) For all of you who could not for the life of you figure out fire s whacky release schedule we re giving you a chance to try and figure out a totally different whacky release schedule After considering ideas like following the lunar cycle and some kind of formula involving prime numbers we finally decided on the first Saturday of each month This is NOT hard to understand Saturdays are the ideal time to release because people (especially the euro guys) can stay up late It also gives people some time for last minute drawing and gives the viewer time to look at the pack the following Sunday This means the next fire pack will be released on SATURDAY May 3rd Whew lots of info there It s been a busy month I ll let the individual coordinators dole out all the details now -god among lice Ernie s big adventure Ernie loved public transit To him it was the greatest thing since libraries or park benches He was of that rare breed who realized the underlying truth that the more people use rely on something the greater its value Hence he was on his way to improve the government by picking up his welfare cheque He couldn t really see the source of all the related outrage In his mind it was more money than anyone really had a right to use in a month After all he had never bought much - there was no room in his shopping cart for food processors and CD-ROMs He ran a web page courtesy of the library Life on Three Dollars a Week At last count eighty thousand people had seen it Ernie had never seen eighty thousand of anything before In his mind any fundamental need beyond birdsong and starlight was available through the milk of human kindness And in dumpsters though it was unwise to partake of the milk found there He had little on him at the moment a pen and some napkins with which he composed poems to give to passers-by a swiss army knife a bottle of water from a fountain some exquisite rocks feathers ragged strips of flannel and a roll of film found in the pockets of his newly-acquired coat He hoped to develop the film some day because momentos of other people s lives are very important a reminder that there are real decent humans behind the numbers and plexiglass and intolerance As his stop approached he found himself whistling a tuneless melody Mendelssohn perhaps On his way out he tripped on something unseen no doubt a loose thread on his ragged trousers and tumbled rag-tag like a flying patchwork quilt into a bustling street scene In his schizophrenia-addled mind he momentarily thought that he could hear a child crying for his mother then a woman laughing Then he handed hard but the many layers of threadbare clothing he wore offered some padding With fortunes doubled two passing businessmen uncharacteristically lent their hands to help him up An unusual sign of kindness from any man this deep in the city especially considering who Ernie was His foot was twisted slightly and the men offered their impeccable black shoulders for him to lean on and he put his arms around their backs laughed and shuffled off into the afternoon It was going to be a beautiful day fire ansi Hey ho here we go (woo) The ansi division went thru some changes this month We began the month with that good old Eerie guy as division head but the guy lost interest in doing the job along the way so I stepped in to take care of things on an temporary basis When me and the liceboy finally had the confirmation of Eerie s departure we were talking about how I would take the division but we also began to talk about how we liked Nail and should give him some staff job and we ended up offering him the position which he gladly accepted Nail had some real life duties to attend to so I m the one writing the news this month We also had some changes on the members side Eerie got Sniper back in some of you may remember that this particular argentinian had been in Fire in a past era Welcome back! We also got a guy named Shaft who comes from the Shade fame We re all glad to add yet another Swedish guy to our increasingly growing staff of European artists Deaccession left us this month after foreseeing a less active ansi drawing career in his near future Also leaving is The Night Angel who decided to devote more time to AWE -the extremist fire hirez It s me again Here s some Hirez news We ve cleaned the hirez memberlist a bit this month Psionide is no longer with us because I haven t seen him around forever Also as much as we all love Halaster I thought it seemed appropriate to remove him from our official ranks as a vga artist I think hal s known a LOT more for his ansi skills than his vga ability don t you ) New members this month come straight out of the fire legion of the golden bees (aka ansi artists) Fire From Heaven shows incredible ability for a rookie vga artist Keep a look out for hidden ansis in his vga pieces! ) In fire packs he will be releasing his vga work with the prefix ffh- instead of his usual ansi prefix of two- Also joining us is Numb I have a feeling that Numb has always dreamed of becoming a famous vga artist someday just like I have always secretly dreamed of becoming a famous ansi artist Maybe we can help each other out ) Look for our special double feature vga collaboration in the next fire pack -lGiOcDe fire ascii This month was a hectic one with me being invited into ACID(remorse) and the numerous complications in my personal life all nicely wrapped up with my record deal with Hush Entertainment To be honest I haven t payed much attention to my duties as Fire!a coordinator this month and oddly enough during my absence things kept going at full-speed So thanks to all the members who joined and to haji who helped while I was gone Talking about haji I ve decided to appoint haji as one of the two Fire!a seniors along with the Emperor This means if I m ever absent for a long period of time haji and the emperor will fill in and gather art etc Also due to the large influx of members this past month I ve decided to make Fire!a invite only meaning if we want you to join we ll ask However you can send applications to me at the email address listed below if you feel you belong in Fire!a As I said before we gained several members this month all with different talents Psy comes to us from Israel Skatter joins up from noname with his talent Absent Spinster joins up with his original ansciis Sammael comes from rile and samsara Prodiac joins up with his new ascii talent Discofunk 74 joins from odelay with his mad-ascii skills Baphomet comes to us from CIA with his nice oldschools Tsk joins from remorse with his pimp styleez and LT brings his oldschool skills to us late in the month Well thats pretty much it I m very pleased with our second showing and hope that things continue to do so well when I pay attention to the group ) Look for another super-joint between all the talents in the ascii scene in the next pack We salute ODELAY kWESTPHUNK and REMORSE for keeping it real -- pariahFIREsenior pariah@breaks for alienz org (Don t forget empty! He left fire ascii but he still runs the bot -lGiOcDe) The Agony and the Ecstasy He has now fallen down You wash your hands Drying them her laughter rattles down the hall and under your door like a handful of dead leaves and rotten sticks Damn her! Always finding amusement over the misfortune of the innocents But she pays you exquisitely and your addiction is an expensive one You hear her scuttling through the adjoining hallway the wheels of her apparatus squeaking and the tromping footfalls of her troupe of bodyguards accompanying her no doubt to her opulent Attendance Chamber and a portal in front of you flickers red to life in front of you to tell you that it s time to start preparing for a reception It is unneccessary a deliberated insult on her part You re a professional - your mask and rubber gloves are already on Does she think that you might not have been in a state to realize the time for your responsibility You know better than anyone else to never mix business with pleasure and as a rule that is at no risk as business teends to be very very unpleasant You pack up the rubber hose and give the scalpels another dab with the sterile swab of methahol Got to be ready The monitors show the two hired goons in what must be their most true-to-life performances to date escorting the poor victim into the entrance of the complex Your fingers tighten stretching the latex and making it creak This is really unneccsesary You know that and she is fully aware of it She dosen t perpetuate it for her own benefit but rather because she knows of the mental anguish it causes for you And you have no say in the matter because you have forced some doors to be permanently wedged open with hypodermic needles razor blades and dollar bills It can t go on of course You know that and she is acutely aware of it she just wants to see how far she can play the game before one of the contestants is driven over the edge Unfortunately she s the only one who knows the full extent of the rules Someday soon it will all come folding in on itself Perhaps you will turn on her plunging your blades deep within her frame before your own bullet-riddled cadaver hits the floor No no that won t do In her condition vast and globular there s no assurance that such an action would actually kill her Perhaps an overdose then Easier to execute but the culprit would remain painfully obvious A double overdose They can t get you if you re already gone Footsteps approach - time for work Enough of such thought the time is it not yet come I hope the mistigris tour with fire is as much fun for you to look at as it has been for us to organize The mistigris guys are a great bunch and I urge you to seek them out wherever they happen to be on the next leg of their tour Personally I really enjoyed being able to work together on as many collaborations as I did and they probably never would have happened if Cthulu and the rest of mistigris hadn t begun their tour in the first place Tell us what you think of having the lit strewn in amongst all the art This probably marks the first time fire has released literature since the very first fire pack ever Anyway I ll just shut up now and let you enjoy the pack in its epic entirety ) Catch you later -God among Lice fire president The whole story The carrier gets on the bus This is noted as is his time of boarding choice of seat apparent lack of luggage and the direction in which is facing Cables pulse and thrum with excitement spitting a constant flow of information back and forth with digital peristalsis The next few minutes are very busy though they don t look outwardly so Nevertheless it is impressive when an army of actors marches into the streets synchronized to become the ultimate disguise Four red points of light pass over the carrier s torso as the bus passes certain buildings He doesn t notice Two men fight then they fight no more A hot dog vendor wipes a few spots of blood off of his stand beneath rows of ketchup and relish and a businessman is forcd to retire inside as pulped cerebellum is not quite so easy to clean Manhole takes on a new meaning The bus driver submits a full report as the vehicle of public transit comes to the sting Cars adjust their cyclic choreography as to avoid this new oasis of stasis obstructing their fluid motion With two steps the carrier is subdued Security pretends to assist him but it is soon apparent that they are following ulterior orders The carrier is putting on a good show demanding to see his lawyer (not that he has one) nor revealing for one instant that he knows anything of the situation The transmitter on the microfiche tells us as much With unexpected ease the carrier is sedated The doctor makes ready recieving the delivery and going to work but today he proceeds a bit differently from the established routine after a long pause and several red flashes Instead of reviving the carrier he is put instead into a deeper sleep prerecorded moans and screams playing so as not to arouse suspicion A few superficial flesh wounds are made for appearance s sake - cuts on the thighs across the belly and below the ribs along the side - and the doctor takes out a bottle of latex in liquid form applying it on several locations on the carrier s body his lips on the palms of his hands and specifically along either side of the broad shallow cuts Dried under a heat lamp it looks no more menacing than a skin rash certainly not unexpected on one undercover in this manner A fine powder made from the rendered skins of the finest South American frogs is painted on the latex layers doubling the meaning of the label carrier All remains of the applicating apparatus the jars and brushes go into an incinerator Almost as an afterthought the doctor removes the microfilm from the pocket of the carrier s coat and puts it in a vacuum tube from whence it arrives to waiting specialists in the technical workshop four levels below Smelling salts are applied beneath the carrier s nose He is uncomposed but rational enough to recieve well the instructions not to lick his lips nor to touch himself anywhere especially not on his new wounds The doctor stops for a minute to shake his head roughly then regains his composure and calls security to bring the carrier to the next stage of his voyage the personal audience with the queen Thugs arrive and bear the man on his way Alone the doctor turns off the light in his office and locks the door He turns off and seals completely the incinerator then waits in silence to resolve a mental dilemma Finally he steps into action still in the dark Disconnecting worn rubber hose from a gas valve and a bunsen burner he turns the valve open and lets the odourless substance wash over him A filament is attached to a logic gate which will be activated in the event that the doctor trips a wire by falling down in which case it will cause to be emitted a single spark Reducing a powder to a liquid on a heat plate he injects it into a prominent artery along the inside of his arm He rolls several small capsules around in his hand and upon hearing the wailing of a klaxon and stomped rushing footsteps he swallows them It is a beautiful day What are YOU lookin i ll at wok you 0 pt mist pic and logo by platinum of mistigris ptmist Cthulu here filling in as Fire lit head among other things This pack is special in more ways than you will ever know Sure the art is neat perhaps even unusually so considering the parties involved The logistics were quite something too taking up every last second of two months of communications and coordination and even then some Still it has been quite a long time since Mistigris has released a pack in April with Fire (It s been even longer since it released a pack in March with Fire but you can ask Samurai about that along with what happened to the March Project 301 pack 8) What is this Yes probably earlier than most of you remember Fire and Mistigris were once one group February 1995 to combat the growing influence of Integrity in Mist s home area code of 604 and to counteract the loss of Die Farbekrieg from the Fire side a man far ahead of his time (and as it turned out his peers ) This was a previous incarnation of Fire - no Nail no Numb no God Among Lice but there were still recognizable faces in the crowd - Halaster Prisonernumberone and Killa Hertz among them Others such as Eerie and The Extremist been appearing on the other side of the lines with Mistigris as Gunthar and Surreal Logic would along their path to scene success The merger of two dying groups was not a successful one - like a body rejecting foreign tissue the few Fire members who came over made quick work of their stay in Mistigris dropping out of the scene (and from there into ACiD) promptly Mistigris itself slowed to a crawl nourishing and giving life to an entity viewed by many as far superior - Integrity But every domination must come to an end and groups appear to take the place of the falling (c) The xtremist 1995 Enter the second incarnation of Fire Here we are now and this is where they ve gotten to and that is where we ve gotten to and you can consider this pack what things might have looked more like if the merger had worked out after all The dream image will only last a month but the resonation will be carried with us forever Two years ago at this point I was publically bemoaning the fate of Mistigris especially where its Fire side was involved declaring it the lousiest birthday present a guy could get (My birthday is April 04 the traditional relase date but no longer of Fire s fourth pack of the year ) I d like to think that this pack makes up for the frugality of that gift and then some I d like to note a few things - thanks to all of the Fire staff especially God Among Lice The Extremist Fever and Mavrik - for making our stay here notable and coaxing out much of our most exceptional art ever The promise of Fire looming over our heads inspired us to heights that most of us may never have attained - and may never match Thank you as well to Halaster who made this possible - both then and now I would encourage you the viewer to check out that art which you won t ordinarily find here - the lit and music - just to see how it s evolved since you last tuned out - and to follow our tour this month with the Radiance music crew and the pending release of Shite! E-Mag #1 (a combination of Shazam! and Kithe) and in following months with well other to-be-named groups 8) In closing I hope that the apparent success of this collaboration of two groups will inspire imitation and evolution from other members of the scene now that we have proven that it is not only possible but can produce outstanding results Cthulu - Mistigris president - I am not a fish Mistigris 1997 - letting the artists run the asylum -