.oO Facts about the suposed merge with devotion Oo.   It seems that rumours are flying around about the AiM merging   with the above named groups. Its not that we care, but these  rumours bother alot of AiM members who want AiM to stay the way  it is now, and belive that it was unfair for US(the Seniors of  AiM) to try to merge without thinking of that fact. Here are the  Facts as far as we know an understand them : [x] AiM never merged with MOTION, a merge was offered bye luc and jim but we never went through it since we wanted to keep the name AiM and Motion wanted to keep the name Motion, There was a possibility that we could have resolved this but the fact that SuperDave was a member of of Motion fuckedup the merger all togethere. Also we never tried to `steal' members of motion to AiM, and only one of their members was aproached(cable) because we thought that with his attitude twords the scene He would fit into aim very nicely. Also Luc is not a member of Motion and the same goes for Jim. The End. [x] (This gets Complicated)  AiM NEVER merged with Devotion. It was not until yesterday   that we learned all the facts about this bullshit and we would   like to make them clear to the public so that this kind of   idiotic crap will never happen. We are not trying to put the blame on Soul Survivor, but it seems that out of this whole merge mess we are nearly in a fight with Motion, and AiM is loosing controll of its own local members! Alot of people have a reason to be pissed at sS but still more are raging on him for no reason. Here are the facts as WE see them, if you think we are wrong please tell us because our info comes from what we ourselves found out along with a few hints from Shroom, Ss and a few others.. About a month ago I was in channel #motion when some guy SuperDave started ragin on me (The result was Lc-Fucj.ans =) ) after I realized that he was a member of Motion i yelled at everyone that i Quit because if their members have attitudes like that  I dont want any part of that group. As I quit and went back to Channel #aim, Soul Survivor(s_surv) and Dagon(AiM/MoTiON) joined me and said that  they also quit Motion for the same reason and wanted to join  AiM. I gladly accepted both of them and life was cool for about.. well..  25 minutes.. Then the next time i loged onto IRC i found that Soul Survivor quit AiM and created a new group called DEVOTION He said that people from all over were joing including those from iCE/ACiD UNION/MOTION/DARK and AiM. The fact that AiM members were joining alarmed me because all aim members are loyal to the group, but except for that i was happy that Soul Survivors group is getting such a great start, If such people as AZRAEK, SPIDD, VISIGOTH, and SMOOTH were joining Devotion they should have no problems with their first pack..  About a week laster however a merge was proposed and we agreeded to keep the name AiM, and to make a biger and better group. This seemed great  and i talked it over with the seniors of AiM and we all agreed. Again I was happy and everything was cool, this eliteness however lasted less then a day when i found out that Soul Survivor broke the merger off, the reason for this is not clear because i heard that it was a) Because we didn't want to have an app gen in our packs  b) Disco hates us or even  c) S_surv was banned from #ice (DONT ask me what the fuck thats all about) then again I said that its ok and good luck to devotion on its own. Then in about 2 days we merged again, this time I had a full member list of AiM Members(Around 45)  along with Dist Cites and possitions, even had a few pix for the Pack! It seemed that the drama was over and we could get back to Art  but when i joined #aim the next day I saw a topic screaming that all exDevotion members are to go back to #DEVOTION and the merger was No More.. Along was s_surb offering a file called DEVONEWS.ZIP (included) Knowing what happen the last 2 times we tried to merge i didnt care much about this latest "Breakup" and went to find Lord Drakul to try and beg him for a logo, Once i found LD i was surprised to hear that Soul Survivor wanted him to Quit aim and join Devotion.. This REALY pissed me off because this was TOTTALY unfair and backstabing.. I told SS that I want nothing to do with Devotion and no help would be offered by me or other Members of AiM, we were not trying to start a war, but wanted it clear that what he did sucked.. Then 1 day later i found out that Devo is Dead!, every member of Devotion left sorta groupless, Sould survivor Himself left to Spastic after he was rurned down by AiM, Disco and Dark  Now about 4 days ago while chatting with Shr00m now of TekLordz( an ex Devotion Member ) I found out that rumours are spreading of Soul Survivors new art group. If this is true or not is still unclear but I think everyone should know what happen. The last statement on why Devotion died came form S_soul himself and was : [s_surv:s_surv@ix.netcom.com] cuz people put on a bot 24hrs/7days and just got  sick of it..alot of the members went to spastic...i'm gonna be ss so don't  matter...just got tired of it.and my gf is gonna have a baby so don't have  time anymore..  [x] We are not trying to insult of (as MistaWho so nicely put for us)  "SLAM" Soul Survivor, Devotion or any ex Devotion Members,  but due to Devotion our relations with motion have been fucked up,  alot of our members are ticked of and we will most likely never talk  talk to anyone about mergers ever again. Also the fact remains that in  order to cover up the fuckup with the merge alot of people are blaming  it on the fact that AiM wasnt willing to "Bend" and make sacrifices  This is true, because we like AiM the way it is and didnt give a flying  fuck, it would have been cool to get the members, but thats about it.. [x] NEWS FLASH!!  Once again we thank our undercover reporter (and slightly stoned friend) Shroom for this latebreaking news! The rumours about Soul Survivors Group is true, the name is Warner Studios.. Oh well, good luck to ss on WS, but we hope that this time there won't be any mergers :D  Have a nice fucking day - Jim Below is extracted file : DEVONEWS.ZIP - enjoy! 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Another new group hits the scene? God, I'm getting so sick of all these little groups! Well were nothing but, small and that's why people hate us. Please read and listen to what i have to say is all i ask. That's probably what your thinking about but, that's when i come in. Devotion got thought up late friday night on the 29th of July. Because of my ideas and thing's i talk about with known artist from iCE,UNiON, Motion,CiA, and RoC they decided to help me out. Your'e probably saying what is so different about us from the other  groups and why should i join? I'll give you the whole story. Friday morning i logged on IRC and was just hanging around like a  normal day and watching everyone start dissing eachother and channel takeovers. Thought to myself this is pretty bad that people have to dis eachother like  this and i've done it myself but not no more! So i just picked up and said I quit (to motion). Later in the day i talked to Smooth from Legend/TekLordZ and told me some ideas on what i could do with the scene and suggested me running my own group and i stopped and thought how cool and fun that would be so i said  that's a pretty good idea smooth. There was only one small problem, name. Name, now what could i call it? RoPE..naaa..Secondary..naa...Devotion! That sounds good, has good meaning like Legend has. So then it was getting  the members. That was the easy part. In 7 days i had 36 members and now as of August 11, 1995 i cut it down to 20 of the best ranging from Visigoth - Stain  and including the hottest and most upcoming artist i created, Shroom. If your intersted in joining Devotion please contact me on Internet and usually go by "S_SURV" and hang out at "#DEVOTION" or "#ICE" is where i am usually found. Or you can email me at "S_SURV@IX.NETCOM.COM" and will get back to you shortly. Or contact any member of Devotion and they will help you out. Another support is reaching Devotion WHQ Ground Zero at 309-798-5315 is probably the best way but may take awhile cause board is very busy. If your calling just to apply to Devotion logon as: USER: DEVOTION PW: DEVOTION95 SYS PW: LAMERZ WANTED. You may also apply for access but will only slow down  the process. Well, thanks alot for reading down this far, it's around 4 in the  morning here and i really don't have no idea what i'm typing. Just looking for that can of beer, now where did i put it? Anyways, don't be shy to stop in "#DEVOTION" on IRC and say hello or if you have any questions please fill free to ask anyone of us. Thanks alot, Soul Survivor.Devotion Founder SAUCE00Merge Info AiM Staff .oAiMo. 19950904ö2PÀ