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1. Howdy everyone, this    ▄    ▒         ▌          ·    is  Lord Soth here,
delivering your monthly               ■     .       iCE Pack. We've worked
hard all month for this one...  I'll  let the art speak for itself though.
As a  quick note,  I would  like to  thank  all  the iCE Artists,  Coders,
Musicians, and Members for weathering  all the scene bullshit that erupted
this month, for they're the ones that make iCE what it is.

2. This month marked the loss of 5 great artists.  First was Deeply Disturbed,
who left after we made  our pack in time to release an ansi in last month's
ACiD Pack, which was released shortly after ours.  Second to split was #28,
who went  back  to  Union,  which has  recently  dissolved. . .   Third was
Terminator 2, who left with  Neurotic  for Somms and Deeply Disturbed's new
group called  Legend.  Lastly,  Hannibal Lecter  quit the join  some of his
closest friends over at Old Dirty Bastard's group, Disco.  Hannibal was our
residant jive-expert, as well as being the  ONLY iCE Member to be a  cousin
of the lead singer of  Blues Traveller.  Killean the Red  also retired from
the scene this month, babbeling about a lack of time as he rode away on his
flying red sleigh.   We'll miss all these  guys, and we wish then  luck and
happiness wherever they may go!

We also did some late  late Spring  housecleaning.   Removed this month for
inactivity  were Dr. Tongue,  Poskgubbe,  The Wizard, and  SleepWalker.  We
honestly hope they will be back in the near future...

3. Joining us this month is Kamikazee, who has been in Tribe, ACiD, Unchained,
Vintage,  and has  finally  stopped  rolling here :).   He's been worth his
weight in gold this month, helping with some last minute fonts and such :).
Welcome to iCE,  Kamikazee.   Also joining us is Maestro.   He ran the iCE-
hating Nation,  and now we all are welling up with tears to see him joining
us.   He too has  helped us  immeasurably  already.   Finally,  we offer an
energetic  Secret iCE Handshake(tm) to Icepick, a VERY talented coder whose
loader  this month proves he's right up there  with the rest of our coders.

3a.After getting a  job at the local  MARS candy factory  next to Friar  Tuck,
Aphex Twin has changed his handle to Aphid Twix.  Mr. Tuck was reported  as
saying "The service at Waffle House can't be beat!"  The iCE psychoanalysis
division couldn't detect any correlation between the two events. =)

4. Big news in promotions this month.  First off, we have to start this off on
a sad note.  Cheese Grater has stepped down from Senior Staff to go back to
his origional  position as VGA Artist.   In an completely  unrelated event,
Friar Tuck joins us as Senior Staffer.  His coding and ansi skills, coupled
with his knack  for coordination  and his  award-winning smile  add up to a
great  Senior  Staffer.   Also  this  month  Borian  was  promoted  to  VGA
Coordinator.  Bottoms up, guys.  Here's to an even brighter future.

5. The Pantheon, iCE US Headquarters, is now available on the net. We have not
as of yet secured a domain name, although the IP address is 129.174.28.181.
Just use that number string where you would normally put a domain name. The
Board is accessable via the Telnet, and depending on your Telnet client you
may or may not be able to send and recieve files as you normally would on a
BBS, or else you can FTP anonymously to that address.  We're currently only
on a 14.4k  connection, so we only allow 1  person on the board  at a time,
although hopefully  we will be  able  to improve this  is the near  future.
Please be  patient while we remodel :)   Since The Pantheon no longer has a
dial-up line, we have switched our US Headquarters to The PowerGrid, run by
our longest-ever active member, Syntax Error.

6. Falic asked me  to mention this in the NFO Files.  The Stockton, California
Police have  made their fellow  Officers  proud this  month.   After one of
Falic's (ex:)friends was caught  stealing a computer,  they asked him for a
list of name of his friends  who use computers.  Yup, you guessed it, Falic
got pulled into all of this.  A detective came and took Falic's computer to
check to see the newly-purchased computer was stolen.  When it was returned
to Falic just  days before the end  of this month,  they had  formatted the
Hard Drive, taking with it all his art for this month.  That wasn't just an
excuse, either, all you super-cynical readers :)   We'd also like to salute
Falic's friend Dave for  getting arrested for kicking a Police horse in the
ass.  What a country :)

7. Quick Note:  We're releasing 2  special ansis this month.   Friar Tuck, our
newest Senior  Staffer, did  an outstanding ansi,  as did St. Blazer.  Yes,
they were definately born to be coders, not artists :)

8. Jamie McCarter has the special release this month, with a rendered .FLI of
a space scene. Check it out, it's worth the 950k download.

9. Syntax Error gave Friar Tuck a boot in the tail this month to document some
little-known iCEView features. These are things that people asked for, he
coded in, and subsequently forgot. See ICEVIEW.NEW for the updates. :P

10. A Happy 19th to Magnetic M!! wooooo-hoooooo!!!! yeeeeee-haw! (from Syntax)
Gratz, dude. =)

'till Next Month,
- Lord Soth and Friar Tuck
slothy@netcom.com
friar@netcom.com

greets to some old farts in the scene: Xerobe, Der Schatten and Soul Rebel.

Aphid Twix  Friar Tuck  Lord Soth