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It's just us, the merry crew of Mistigris, coming off of the high score from last month's epic video games-themed artpack, and back into our most transformative milieu -- Hallowe'en, celebrated during the month of our establishment, back in 1994. After reviving we would release artpacks annually in October in honour of our birthday, but bit by bit they kept being infiltrated by scary stuff, undermining our birthday message. Fine, we give up -- let October have the terror, we will have our party in November. But this wasn't just the time of year when we were founded and, like Frankenstein's monster, revived, but it's also the time of year when three years ago, we assaulted our historical dream and took on a monthly artpack release schedule -- which we have maintained uninterrupted ever since. I know, I know, this isn't particularly scary stuff, except in the sense that here's a guy who takes his hobby way too seriously. But whatevs, the point of the infofile is to inform, not to frighten. So what can I tell you about what makes this collection interesting and unique, and what kinds of interesting things are going on in our wild and weird corner of the computer art underground? We've got new contributors. I know, we almost always have new contributors -- perhaps more noteworthy is that most of last month's new crop have returned for more! Their momentum is gratifying, but you can read about them in the infofile to last month's artpack. The new participants this time around include: Andy Herbert slumming with some computer art weirdos, finding new markets for his new ANSI art editor, Moebius, among unanticipated cohorts of new ANSI artists! Also there's Docpop, aka Doctor Popular, a peak performance nerd of sorts who followed up his mastery of game design, chiptune compostion and yo-yo tricks with a sideline in ASCII art. Well, looks-like-ASCII Unicode art. ab_codes logs a guest appearance, channeled through Cthulu, who manually transcribed a bitmap of some ASCII art for your enjoyment atop this month's memberlist. We feature pieces from accomplished glitchmeister 192.168.10.13's skully side project as The Pixelmancer and a one-off textmode piece by Scart_Issue. All that plus a guest appearance by CoaXCable, who just had to sit in for a little incoherent strangeness. Ia, ia, shub-niggurath! Ah, but I digress. Our regular membership and extended community are always up to new and exciting happenings and side projects. Horsenburger, who has recently relocated his online storefront to Ko-fi, recently illustrated not just one but two text adventure games made using the Adventuron programming language. One has a vintage video arcade theme, while the other is a spooky Hallowe'en story -- and its starting location has been adapted from teletext to ANSI art by Cthulu and mounted atop this very infofile. Go out and give it a try -- its screens are exquisite compositions. It's called Spooky Adventure. Polyducks also recently released a text adventure in Adventuron, entitled Mushroom Hunt. Not only designed and implemented but also illustrated by him, it is well worth investigating. OK, that's the text adventure division report -- which might someday, hopefully, become a regular part of our updates. Xennial has a formidable spree underway at the moment, releasing a new seasonal song every day all month long as part of their 31 Nights of Hallowe'en marathon. You can hear a slice of it in their Lone Wolf track included in this artpack. And for computer music fans, Cranksy continues his Sample Central retrospective podcast apace on ArakNet radio, recently releasing episode #11, an hour-long exploration of the soundtrack to Future Crew's Second Reality. On one further musical note, our colleagues in the Vancouver Chipmusic Society continue, serving up another Overflow concert -- their seventh -- at the Fox Cabaret on October 22nd, featuring live performances by game composers Lena Raine, Danny Baranowsky, Danimal Cannon, and Matt Creamer, with live visuals by Partlyhuman and Freaky DNA. We continue exploring new avenues of reaching our community, externally and internally also. Wow, that could go a lot of places, but it's just me trying to find a way to segue into inviting you to join us at our new Mistfunk Discord server at discord.gg/jY3jg4j Thanks to everyone for responding to our call for submissions for this month's spooky artpack and last month's video games one; next month we'll be celebrating our fabulous 25th anniversary, and we're just hoping for cool submissions from all kinds of unexpected places and forgotten faces, with a focus on hunting down alumni from our Mist Classic period. But if we've never crossed paths before, your involvement is still welcome! November is an incredibly complicated month for us, including a different 20-year anniversary project, the production of an accordion festival (and he has the gall to joke about yo-yos!), and yet another vintage video gaming party... so we'll be releasing late in the month, with submissions due the weekend of Nov 23rd. Get your submissions and guest pieces in to info@mistigris.org before then and help us ring in our first quarter-century! (Thanks to Alpha King for the guest glow-in-dark vampire teeth FILE_ID.DIZ!) 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