Visions of Reality Information Packet
September Pack, Nineteen Nighty-Four
Welcome to the September edition of the Visions of Reality artwork.
The Visions of Reality art pack is a representative of the artwork that has
been made as advertisements for bulletin boards or other groups by Visions
of Reality members. This pack has been going out monthly, ever since fall of
1993. The pack is only a represetative of the artwork that has been used as
advertisements, and all work by artists may or may not be included. This
file is to to give the viewer of the Visions of Reality packet information as
to what has going on in the group for the past month. This includes major
news, additions of members, and general talk about Visions of Reality:
The major event of the month was the leaving of three major
musicians in Reality Waves RAW, the Visions of Reality Music Sub-Group.
The three people that left were Dark Wolf, Muttonhead, and Ace of
Northwall. RAW had mostly been based on the music of these three musicians
in the past month. Dark Wolf and Muttonhead both left RAW when they went
to college, in the middle of the month. Technically they are still in the
group, they just want be able to produce nearly as much. Ace of Northwall
left on quite different circumstances. Ace left for several compiling
reasons. Ace primarily felt that with school and band coming up, he would
not have the time to spend doing music for a computer group. Ace is now in
a group called NPi, where he is working on his coding skills. During the
month of August, we decided that maybe it was time for RAW to pass on - to
die. So, we put the mods and mtms of the month into the VOR pack. But the
music was taking up too much space and was created too huge of a pack. So
then we decided to try to salvage it. The existing members are Hollow
Point, Pluto, Dark Wolf, Muttonhead, and Pizza Dude. However, we have
decided to go on a campaign to get more members. Hence, the RAW pack has
been delayed until further notice, until we feel that we are once again
strong enough to show a good pack.
Specifics of Each Indivual Section of the Month:
The ANSI section has been steadily improving these past few
months with artists such as Scythe, Silver Rat, Hollow Point, Lord Scarlet,
and quite a few others. This month, the ANSI section has picked up a few
additional members to help with the workload. These members include The
Dog, Spam, Zenophobus and Bright Shadow. All of these members have work
showcased in the VOR pack this month. The Dog is out of the 703 area code
and started out with cartoon characters while recently grasping shading.
Spam is out of Texas and looks like a rapidly improving ansi artist.
Zenophobus is out of 301 and is also a cartoon artist. Bright Shadow was
recruited mainly for font works for specific jobs.
Over in the VGA section, several big events transpired. Venom,
our VGA Head, was hit with a nasty virus that caused him to format his hard
drive. Due to that incident, and a vacation he had taken, Venom wont have
any work to show for in the pack. In good news, the VGA section has picked
up Hros also in UNION and Sonic Enigma also in SHIVER to help with the
VGA section. Ackman keeps improving with his first original picture for a
VGA this month, and Dark Wolf has ventured into the High Resolution
realms. Inquisitor Thrax, who has been away without a modem has
re-appeared with two pieces. Calypso has dropped out of the scene for a
while. He still plans to lurk around and turn in a piece every once in a
while though. This month he turned in two pieces.
The rip section has its first RIP. The RIP section is our
weakest section, and we will honestly accept anyone who can do any RIP at
this point. We only have two RIP artists, Raistlin Majere and
Shatterstar. Raistlin completed a quickie font early in the month for the
pack and had been working on an another rip for a few weeks, but ran into
some other problems. Shatterstar is still getting the feel for RIPs and
has been busy with other things as well.
In the coding department, Sinister Outlaw released a loader using
the artwork of Shadowdancer, Lord Scarlet, and a mod from Hollow Point.
Lief O Pardy updated Illuminate to extreme measures now including a title
screen, ANSI-SVGA modes, among other things. Absolute Zero was also picked
up this month to help code gifs into loaders.
Our courier division has also increased. Although only a few
couriers were picked up, every one of our distros can now be couriered to
either via the internet or via the couriers. Our new couriers are Tyrus
Sithius, The Krazy Little Punk, and Plasmatoid.
There is no lit in this months pack. No, we didnt kill the LIT
division, but rather, the lit head has thought of a better way to release
the lit. This project should be done within the next few weeks to maybe
a month and will be released with a vor pack. This idea was thought up so
that the people who like lit can easily access it, and those who dont
wont have to bitch about it.
In summary, this has been another good month for VOR, especially
considering the circumstances. Just about everyone in the group has gone
on vacation sometime or another during the month. Some of our members have
been have personal problems thats what you get when you try to have a
life outside of computers, heh and our vga was viriied with a nasty virus
from a fake release. Still, we have a huge pack to show for the month and
things seem alright for now.
If you want to compliment us on our pack, bitch at us for our
pack, laugh at us for our pack, apply to us due to the pack, shit on us for
our pack, or just say hi, we can be reached in a variety of methods. The
quickest way would be to call our WHQ, Seminole Wind at 301 236-9030, and
login as VOR, with the password VOR and leave mail to someone important
like Widow Maker or Venom or Shadowdancer or Sinister Outlaw or Hollow
Point or something like that. The second easiest way would be to e-mail us
through the internet at vor@arcanum.clark.net. Other ways of reaching us
would be: 1 e-mail username@arcanum.clark.net example:
venom@arcanum.clark.net dark.wolf@arcanum.clark.net, etc. If you have
Internet IRC access, then you can usually find vor members in the vor
channel. Some of our nicks are widowmak, venom, sdancer, skarecrow,
darkwolf, ackman, etc. You get the point. We did have a Voice Mail Box
set up for a short time, but it died after a week of having it. We plan on
getting another one in the very near future.
-wm
Oh yeah, my k-elite greets:
vor members: y0y0
phaserx: is your board 1-800 yet?
dark wolf: hurry up and get your internet account
winter rose: okay, so im a sexist pig, or that a sexy hog? :
time killer: dont forget me this time
sandman: dammit, i should have been organizing the pack, not playing
doom 2! :P
sids: do i smell A? g
ap: still using your account, but i am getting one REAL soon
opiate: 0p14+3!!
farmicus: damn you hick, stop watching CHiPS and get that metro line :
black knight: . . . and to enforce JUSTICE !
number cruncher: i still want those NIN tapes
the guardian: its only at 128 lines, we cant stop now, we must match SHiVER!