mistigris - who =) quip(mistigris) This is Cthulu of Mistigris here hungry tired sick and thirsty and having to write the infofile a second time on account of a freak accident involving a wrench a wet sheep a Tesla coil and get the FUCK out of my toilet Cactus-man I don t want to hug you! Needless to say it won t be as witty or erudite as the first time around partially because some turns of phrase simply can t be duplicated partly because I have prickles sticking out of my bum but mostly because I have slightly under five hours to acquire and wrap My Little Pony merchandise Have you ever tried writing an infofile without being able to sit down A tough fact considering that the colon is the font of all propaganda However the show must go on so what follows is a bit of briefing member movements In case you thought that Toto Man and Biftek were generally hoopy gentlemen think again as they have changed their urbane and refined handles to the lurid and shocking Shoten and Bisquick! (Gasp! Horror!) Since the last pack one new member proof positive (a clarification here we also have a new member in the form of King Arthur a tracker who was formerly in Mist (acquired through the original Mist Fire merger in March 95) but whom we haven t seen much of since well mid-1995 Technically he s not a NEW member but an old one coming back Still I note him here Back to your regularly-scheduled infofile ) Katz a high-resolution artist who I found on #hirez and invited into mist based on the fact that he lives in Vancouver Mist s base of operations It was a pleasant surprise upon seeing his art that the fellow could actually draw (an unexpected bonus so to speak) so naturally we re quite enthusiastic about his joining Not only does he doodle though but based on the prodigious quantities of time he spends in #mist he s taken up an unofficial administrative organizational inspirational role often acting as a sole link for communication to the group Like the one afternoon I logged on to IRC and he told me Hey since you were last on Pure Voltage Syncrow and Spire quit Good thing he told me cause at that point none of the artists involved had actually felt it relevant to tell me about their decisions Two of them still haven t so I m just going on Katz s certified gossip here but it seems quantified in that we haven t seen either of the two around since (Actually that s because our top secret mistigris assassination division took care of a percieved morale problem but wait if I told you about that I d have to kill you so let s just move on to the next news item ) Mr Wrong QUITS for GLUE! He cited as his motivation the fact that he wanted to be in a group where there was more of a focus on ANSI and the fact that ANSI artists tend to stick in mist like lemmings stick to the top of the cliff (editorialization) didn t exactly make us the more secure ANSI-drawing environment department news ansi So we lost Mr Wrong Not a big loss by most accounts the fellow could certainly draw but only logos (which aren t hard to come by by any stretch of the imagination ) We ll miss him he was one of the last Mistigris members to come out of Quebec (leaving Enelf Daragard the sole possessor of that legacy) where we ve had historic roots (see Eerie The Extremist Zoltar) but this shouldn t be big news One ansi artist leaving isn t a big problem - in past months we would have been happy to have only one artist leave This marks something bigger though Mr Wrong was the last ansi artist in mist who didn t do one (or both) of the two following things a) draw (more) for another group like Quip (an ex-ansi-department head) for Function or Rash (also an ex-ansi-department head) for Glue b) draw only an occasional ansi when not concentrating on their medium of choice - in this group most often music In this pack the ansi primarily relies on ascii vga artist Dead Soul who s trying something new out musicians Tricolore and Da Drug and the music department head Haquisaq These men can draw no shit but we can t rely on them to do it consistantly and what s more we should be encouraging them to do what they re supposed to be doing No one asks Cthulu to draw ansi (well not if they know what s good for them) and we shouldn t be relying on these folks So our last dedicated one-group one-medium ansi artist has quit Simultaneously Rash has stepped down as mistigris ansi head saying that the job was just too difficult (accomplishments since his assuming the position including releasing zero ansis in mist packs and several in glue packs ) With luck his newfound freedom will leave him able to draw that much more for glue This means that we don t only not have a department head but we have no one left eligible to even become it! So LISTEN UP ANSI ARTISTS OF THE SCENE Open letter to Acheron ANSI DEPARTMENT W LEADER WANTED Well-established (4 years old) multidisciplinary group seeks SM ansi artists to join our ramshackle collective of more than forty ansi-deficient computer artists and perhaps to lead an ansi department based on the part-time ansi artists we already have and a new recruitment blitz Side benefits active group channel (#mist on EFNet ) rich historical legacy strong community and all the lit you can shake a stick at Pets smoker okay No child pr0n please Send resume and photograph to valentine@infomatch com (Cthulu Mistigris founder ) Artists of all other mediums accepted too Essentially here s the deal Give us someone who s willing to take the job seriously (ie not quit and start their own group) and we ll start taking the department seriously (ie not giving Mr Flibbles full rein to release his misunderstood genius ) Don t give us someone who s willing to take the job seriously and we ll make Mr Flibbles the department head (you d better listen to him ma am I think he means it ) Okay that s enough ansi-department news for now It s odd how that department can always manage to dominate the infofile while maintaining a total lack-of-presence in the actual group itself lit You may have noticed in this pack a predisposition towards art where there was contained other text - lit other collaborations for lack of a better term This was part of an idea Cthulu started in May to have a pack consisting entirely of artwork with lit in it Needless to say his fellow artists didn t entirely go along with this idea so two months later we are proud to present a pack which if not full of lit at least contains lits in ansis asciis vgas and music (through song lyrics ) as well as our usual complement of stand-alone literary works Highlights include words by Corinthian a man better known for his ANSI escapades in his home group of Dark excerpted lyrics by Otnoo Ishfoo in a vga by Enelf Daragard (the full lyrics to Setting Sun are also included in the lit section) and King Arthur actually SINGING his own words though through heavy heavy distortion in the song Self- Pity We hope to feature more instances of writing juxtaposed with other art forms in the future and if you d be interested in collaborating with a mistigris writer to further this please contact us ascii Our ascii artists have been a bit low on cash recently so they ve put their ascii-creation on hold until they can come up with more $$$ to make their art out of (Man that was a lame joke ) music MistMusic is busy as we speak tracking entries for this year s Music Competition a demoscene compo which may raise our profile a couple of notches Once that project is out of the way we re looking to press a best-of CD of one track from each of Mistigris trackers past and present Oh baby vga Hires has been declared the official root beer of the mistigris vga department In other news the High Resolution department has challenged the Ascii department for the right to kick my ass first for passing such lame jokes as news rip Lady Blue just keeps chug-chug-chugging along The debut pack of Souls (the all-rip group) is an interesting sign for the scene but really we d settle for just the occasional rip from someone else For LB administrating the RipScrip department involves having a nice long nap code 10 print How do you keep a coder busy 20 input a$ 30 print Press any key to find out 40 inkey$ 50 goto 10 this is the end my friend