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ÛÜ Ü °Ü °  THE PREVI OUS WRI TERS WIS H TO INF ORM YOU THAT TH EY HAVE BEEN CANN ED. WE W ILL    NOW C ONTINUE THIS IN FO FILE IN AN EN TIRELY DIFFEREN T MANNE R. ( 2^) your mind is being hacked..  . by belial & edicius. in case you haven't noticed, mindcrime is nuts. HE'S A FL AMING IDI0T. w e are sorry, and he will no longer be with us.  group news? quite a few little things to mention. first of all, we we re rated #1 in ansi groups by "the 'net" magazine. yay!  if you haven't noticed, blade is having a little persona lity change -  we're getting one. we've come to the realizati on that blade is not a business and we were not having fun. every month, peopl e would join blade, upload their work, and we would never hear from t hem again. i've been in the group for quite a while now and i can't even  say that i've talked to half of the members. i'm here to have fun, if i  wasn't, i'd be  dumb.  communication would be great.  wait, you may be wondering why the hell i'm writing this.  well, edicius and belial (that's me. teehee.) were recently promoted to senior staff.  woo, woo! lets form a sharing circle! here are the email addresses of the blade division heads and senior shafters - err, staffers. (yo u said "staff". huh-huh.) - lord high exalted supreme ruler and god, mindcrime: - mike@exit109.com / mc@acid.org - senior staff type guy, errant angel: -we're dumb, we don't know. - another senior shaft (woops, did it again.) - staff type guy, edicius: - edi@cybercomm.net - another most excellent blade senior staff member, sh ivan bastard: - shivan@acid.org - and yet another senior staff type guy, belial: - belial@groovie.prism.net - hey, look. it's the ansi division head, pushead: - kevinf@jax.gulfnet.com - and here we have, as the lit division head, tron pow erhouse: - tronepic@tir.com  - and the coding division head, dark knight: - we're stupid, don't know. - hey, look. it's that guy again, the ascii division head, belial: - belial@groovie.prism.net -our wonderful high resolution guru, torgo: -uhm.. dunno.. damnit.. these people need to contac t mindcrime. wow, wasn't that fun. here's the deal. talk to these  people if you have  a problem with ANYTHING. have any ques tions? ask someone! it's all very   simple; speak up. if we don't know there is a problem, we can't fix it!   here, edicius has some stuff to say.. . "hey skipper, wanna play with my testicles?" ok, ok, edicius didn't really say that, i did. edicius wa nted me to omit  ° his part. damn lamer, he gets a pro motion and he thinks he can sit on hi s± ass and watch everyone else do the w ork! =) ²   wait a minute, who am i to talk? uhh, nevermind. ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 3!) i'm telling you man,  acid and ice are like two big fucking black holes.  they suck up all the best artists in the scene an d you _never_ hear from them again. it's like they disappear. anyway, we have lost rai to this strange phenomenon. we wish rai the best of luc k in ice and if he ever  escapes back out, he's always welcome back he re in blade.  °   ± don't tell me we've lost more! ² ick, we didn't need them anyway. hah, hah, hah! ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 5@) just as members go, members come. and quite a few of them came to us this month. yay, joy!  starting with the ansi department, we have rusty  and the hooded one joining us. moving on, we have mister e, pre sident of revival lit, joining our most triumphant lit division. also adding t o our lit divisio n is flood. oh, the list keeps going and going.. . joining us with his ascii talents, is dragon. a lso joining us is aninimal  with his vga skills. adding to the music d ivision, we now have paladin.  form blazing sword!  our new shafter - err, staffer is shadowhawk.   with that, i'd like to mention our new service erectors - err, directors, hack, flare, and shellman. also joining blade are somms, lord jazz , rad man, and chromatik, wh o is making his return to the scene.  we warmly welcome you all to blade! more? maybe, but... sorry if i forgot anyone, i'm just so me dumb dude wh o has like... 5 minutes to finish this file. ( 6#) this section has been left blank in support of  first amendment rights!  ° ± ²  ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 7*) stop the world, shiv an bastard has something to say! here it is, i can't  wait! ° ± "fuck this shit, i'm goin' to rob a liquor store." ²   oh, god, not that movie again! ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 8&) guess what i heard? rumors are DUMB! shut up, blade is not dead! want to know what i think?  i think that that one group wants us dead because we're j ust so damn cool ! yeah, that's it! lamers, we'll never die! °we merged with cia this month. we took all their members, and kicked them  ±back out. just so we had the pleas ure of kicking sucky artists. we made ²napalm the gimp daddy, and he's chained to my bed right now. ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 2^) that new guy, hack, has something to say.. .  hey, blade followers.. . this is hack, the blade communications director . i'm here with some stuf f about blade's involvement with the internet - # blade's bot, jerik0 (named  for the j1 "movement" in blade.). neat little things you can do: 1 - you can introduce yourself by /msg jerik0 blade. 2 - you can set a password by doing a /msg jerik0 pass ( wh0rd) 3 - you can set a greetline by /msg jerik0 info (greetli ne) 4 - you can do much more in a dcc chat with jerik0, but you need to have introduced yourself and set a password for it to wor k.    our new "division".. .  blade introduces the communications divisio n. here are some of the thing s we will be offering:  1 - public mailing news - once created, this  will allow you, the blade   fan, to get all of the latest abo ut blade.  2 - blade member mailing list - pretty self- explanitory.  3 - blade VMB (voice mailbox) - you can lea ve a request or a message to    our senior shaft - err, staff.  (oops, i did it again, sorry!)  4 - and more wacky blade member "perks".  if you want to be a part of this new division,  mail me at:  hack@industry-dm.com  leave your voice phone number, i'll contact yo u. we especially want   telecomm. guys.  °  ±thank you for your time, maybe i'll listen t o you now.  ²... hack/(hk) hack@industry-dm.com  "don't kick the bot, dumbass!"  ÛÜ Ü °Ü ° ( 10!)did 'the edge' ever have this many sections before? anyway, its been a blast writing in 'the edge' again. too  bad a certain 3 people backed out on me with pieces the y were going to write! =)  well, i'm done. here is mindcrime to lighten up your spir its again! i love you and i want to have your baby, belial (11$)"hi, i'm mindcrime." man oh man, can you believe what a fucking great month thi s was? the scene kicks so much ass. blade is rocking out so much and i'm having the damned time of my life. wewp! i must congratulate all the blade members for such an amazing showing this month, they really came t ogether to make this two year anniversary a great one. we'll close out this info file with some amazing poetry from two of the world's best  poets, edicius longfellow and e. e. "cerkit" cu mmings... ( 12#)..the blade rap, by edicius..  y0.. my name'z mC/blade, and i'm hear to say,  Blade's be kickin' it in every way..  Doodling ansis like you've never seen,  .. and writing lits that sure are keen.  We laugh at Apathy and ACiD,  just like my dick, they be flaccid.  Blade's been around now for two years,  giving you mad shit like cold beers.  We will snatch the best aritsts from iCE,  and steal the guy who programmed LiCE.  We scoff at CiA, Odium will phear;  Lord Jazz leaving them, is what they will hear .  FiRE's no match, fuck the competition,  Our skills are unique, divine intuition.  Maybe one day, you'll be good enough for us,  .. or you'll find yourself on the loser bus!  FUCK ACiD. FUCK iCE. D0WN WiF DA BiG GR0UP M ENTALITY. BLADE IN '97!  - complete work by edicius, blade literary gur u and part time member of  run d.m.c ( 13.)"dicks for maytrix"  by cerkit  my name is maytwikz, i draw in blox  and in my free time, like to suck cocks.  don't me me wrong, some call me k-rad,  but they don't know about me & my dad  lots of sex, my childhood with, was filled inb etween  he fucked me good, and my asshole's now clean  through and through, my brain sure lags,  i'm just another of those mindless ansi fags.  i'd fuck your brother, if he was six  i'm an authority on little boy's dicks.  cock sucking, in thedraw, its what i phear  aciddraw, is for those of who are softcore que er.  maytwicks, maytrix, he's duh dude,  when it comes to homosexuality he's no prude.  warez, aren't the only things i pirate, someti mes its butt  or surfing the web to collect my smut.  just the ways how i serve my human need,  i'd pull my dick to make it bleed.  now, some might refer to me as dence,  because i wear a sign on my ass, that says "en trance"  but i'll always put that case to rest, like no  other pansi  and mass kick your ass off #ansi. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ -the edge features the writings and ramblings o f belial, mindcrime, hack , ediciu s------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- -* please note: this informational textfile is not ent irely true, but the last poem is. SAUCE00the edge! volume 3 / issue 1 staff blade productions 19960311TP