acidic soap

ust unzippeda DARK Collection, and now

you're wonde
ring what it is you've gotten yourself into.

First, let us assure y
ou this archive won't do anything nasty to
your hard drive.  In f
act, consider the sectors holding these
thousands of bytes of
information blessed.  That's right, BLESSED!

BEHOLD, THE DARK OF T
HE COVENANT!

(Ok Indiana, you can open yo
ur eyes now.)

Bad puns aside (the *other*
side, sherlock), this mass of artwork
you have before you represen
ts the concentrated efforts of a
gifted group of individuals.
(Oxymoron alert!  Stand by to
oxycute'em!  Zit on it and p
ercolate, mickeyfrickey!)

Cut!  This Introduction is a
ll wrong!  Scrap it, start over!

-[thisisatraditionalcutlineb
eingoverrunbypointlessexplanationkay]-

From the ominous corners of
the Congo, to the depths of the ocean
floor, the alleyways of the
inner city and the heavens above, we
bring you:

TOILET DUCK!  <narrator is b
eaten to death with the script>

"What he *really* meant to s
ay was..."

DARK ILLUSTRATED, MAR
CH 1997 COLLECTION, THE UNDISPUTED TAI-PACK!

Read on...

A hectic month for DARK Illustrat
ed!  First of all, Senior Staff
position
s have been re-arranged.  Prison Breaker moves
up from
VGA Departme
nt Head to fill in the sacrosanct third Pimp-Daddy
title.  (se
e the memberlist for details)

Filling in as VGA Head
is Burnout.  Though it took an unsettling
quantity of mind-alter
ing substances to get him to agree, we
feel the exertion he d
emonstrated in fighting the promotion will
only be surpassed by his eff
orts to flee... err... lead the VGA
Department to greater glorie
s.

Purple Dye have opted to focus on web design, and the
last we heard from them coul
dn't be repeated to a young audience.
However, we've been as
sured the official web page *will* by
available to the public shor
tly.

Taking over the ANSI D
epartment is none other than Corinthian!
He's sworn to The Unholy Lor
ds of DARK he hasn't go a clue as to
what he's doing, and if the
early reports of his progress are
correct, he's making g
ood with that promise!

Our Thug Enforcer Division (
aka: "Coordinators") has been given a
boost!  Cyber X
is accompanied by Acidic Soap and
Armageddon
Donut, and they'l
l be strong-arming the "weaker" elements among
you into paying tribute to t
he DARK cause.  (Pay the squeeze or
Acidic Soap will smoke a cub
an in your appartment.  Maybe two.)

Straying into the sombre sha
dows of this menacing little art
group is Fluor, m
aster of Sheep Sacrifice.  Have a stray bundle'
o'wool wandering your Window
s environment?  Fluor's the man to
rid you of the scourge!  Cash in adv
ance.

Support Sites

The Lethal Aspect
World HeadquartersXypher Matryx

he RegencyInternet Headquarters
Halaster
Mad Cows?!?
DARK Member BoardNight Stalker
Savage Exil
eDARK Member BoardAcidic Soap
Sight & SoundDARK
Member BoardDrone-Fly
Special SauceDARK
Member BoardSamurai
Abraxas/DiabolicD
ARK US Support SiteMegga Hertz
ABCD CafeDARK Sup
port Site          Kyo

Via the Internet, DARK packs
can be obtained from The Regency's
FTP site, at
tregency.res.cmu.edu, or from the ACiD Artpack
s
Archive at ftp.cdrom.
com (/pub/artpacks/incoming/artpacks/)

Most DARK members can be con
tacted through e-mail (addresses
available in the memberlist)
, and some may be found lurking on the
IRC, in channel #dark
.  (EFnet)

On the World Wide Web
, you'll find plenty of links on TLA Online
at www.interlog.com/~
xmtrx, and the latest pack can be downloaded
via a link at www.dar
killustrated.org.

For more detailed informatio
n on DARK Illustrated, DARK's own
F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Que
stions) text file is included in this
archive.  Filename: DARK-FAQ.184

Filenames work like this:
XXXXX-##.*

is a five-letter abbreviation of the artist's a
lias.
(Should the
alias fall within five characters or less, the entire
alias will be used.)

resents the current number of pieces the artist has produc
ed
for the year of 1997.

* can be any
valid extension for images, executables, data files,
or musical compositions.  Th
e most common are DRK for ANSI images,

/BMP/etc... for high-resolution graphic im
ages, and MOD/
S3M/XM/etc...
for music data files.

This concludes the March Collecti
on Newsletter.  We hope you've

the pack, and we encourage you to leave whatever group(s)
you're in, a
nd join DARK Illustrated.  In fact, our Emperor
, the
venerable M
ao Tse PING, demands it!  The PING Dynasty lives on!

We'd like to thank
Acidic Soap for the spiffy graphics he drew
for the Memberlist and
Newsletter, and Corinthian for all his
efforts over the past
month.

Reminder!  We're DARK
Illustrated, and you're not. (Juvenile
maybe, but it's the truth, b
y god!)  PING!