blackmaiden nOOHZ+++ _avenger speaking feel greeted dear reader ) where other groups praise themself even when they know that they have released bad a pack we stay honest the book did not turn out that great as we hoped it to be shortly after the release of book 18 we were all highly motivated but outer influences prevented us to bring out the wanted killer-pack kyp is busy with his studies at universities and has other things in mind than ansi (women =) leo had also some problems and pandur had some bad luck with his hard-disc (well and the german telekom too) and the others were lazy or had no real motivation anymore we had two new members namely prst and cyberphreak but unfortunately they left again after a short while prst had some problems with our ideas and cyberphreak dropped ansi ( farewell to you two! i want to make zippy bm-member of the month because although he has only one pic in this pack he has drawn a lot more (but didnt send me grrr ) and improved quite a lot ) i believe mother is back from his exchange trip to the u s so let s shout out a loud welcome home mutti! ) konami switched to xbin i heard better look out for the new xbin-only group i personally dont think the xbin-stuff will survive long but i guess no one bet that ansi would survive almost ten years either ) additionally he has drawn two great ansis for this pack give them a chance to entertain you! pandur has almost finished his linux dos ansidrawer called gdraw he still needs some ansis so draw! i fuckin wish i could have included the ansis leo has drawn in the last months he had so many _great_ - sounding ideas that you better check out his ansis next book! next book will be - you guess - release #20 ! that means we will try to get as many guests from ex-members as possible and show every motherfucker out there what a _real_ artpack is ) guesting this month are - citizen72 a skilled ascii artist from germany and ex- diekrankenbomber member - storm another uprising german artist & arlequin (of circe) with a nice ansi full of ideas ) your gifts are highly appreciated (especially at these hard times) - thanx alot ) party time unfortunately i can t come to ambience 99 but i heard pandur poti and zippy (if someone can take him to venlo hint!hint!) are going to rock the party ) mekka symposium 99 a must for every middle-european scener will be on the easter weekend like usual and i guess many of us will show up (including myself) and boOze alot =) rumours about a bm meeting will become true when we find a date which suits everyone s free weekends in another note toot the slow one will be bitten by the dogs =) after all i am still proud to release this many thanks go out to those that have contributed to this pack! ) (and a wake-up to all who didn t) one closing note i won t be on internet in the next time anymore the phone bill prevents me from buying more important things so you have to address yourself to any other black maiden members they will find a way to contact me ) -avenger (avengerbm@gmx net hazard 2) some last words _poti at the microphone to keep the story short ill just add what ave forgot first of all i would like to point out to kolor s demo called 6feet which ranked 7th at TP8 code was done by former bm-member noize our webpage which is located at http kaoz org bm got redesigned (javascript enhanced) plus take a look at http kaoz org beam (yeah the shine kyp-mag) speaking of the internet we have a real blast for you this book just take a look at bmbook19 html - great work by leonardo (he will add the whole charset soon) i guess thats all for now just that we started organizing evoke 99 which will take place just wait for mekka syposium for more news stop the millenium hype -poti (stefan kesseler@dialup soco de) in a hurry members of the holy circle avenger ansi ascii senior black weasel ansi deviate ansi junk ansi vga konami ansi kyp ansi beam leo ansi vga code beam senior lord chaos ascii mother ascii osel internet pandur ansi poldi ansi poti internet evoke seltorn ascii vga code shine ansi ascii vga beam shiva code smoke ansi tex vga founder toot ansi voice vga founder zippy ansi group email bmaiden@gmx de worldheadquarter the hazard 2 +492406929269x75+v34 irc channel #bmaiden on efnet ircnet homepage http kaoz org bm