% introduction and like stuff (ack)

welcome to  demonic  productionz' second pack! 03/97! anyways, here
almost  on time, (ok, so  we missed a month  and a few weeks, who's
counting?) anyways, we're  here, not at  all dead, maybe  the group
felt more like a group latly.. eheh, i dunno.. but, for the sake of
things, we decided to just release every other month (hey, everyone
else is doing, and besides, it justify's our month late pack fairly
well) ok ok, anyways, here it is.. enjoy!

ok ok, why we  were so late.. the pack was scheduled to be released
friday the 14th. so,  thursday the  8th, i see  dark entity  and he
tells me he  has his mods  are done, and he  can't send  them to me
he's like  snowed in somewheres, or something  like that.  anyways,
when  the next day i've got the  pack ready, except  for his stuff,
and  he doesn't  show up, hmm.. who  cares, i'll  wait  for him. so
on saturday i make contact with a friend of his who i  gather tells
de to get  his mods in, and i spend  another day waiting for him on
hmm..  so..  sunday, or  maybe  monday, not  quite sure, thelemtish
being  the  good  friend  he is, manages  to track  down de's voice
with his ereet  skills, and gives him a call telling him to get his
work in, blah blah, we spend another day or two waiting on him, and
wendsday i give him another call and end up waiting.. again, oh, we
caught  him on  irc a few times but he seemed strangly logoff right
after we  message him,  hmm.. i dunno,  pathetic story eh? anyways,
we're releasing with out him, only 6 days late... ;)

i'll make  this part  nice and  short, the orgin of demonic.  being
genuinly fed up with modding after the deaths of just  about all my
old  affils  (tric, fsw, px, ts, sin, ta) i  decided to take up  my
own group (well, it was a nifty idea at the time) so i  decided  to
draft  some of my friends from  previous groups, i  mean, people  i
knew farily well and liked the work of.  at first i didn't get much
support,  but  eventually  (ie  after the  death of  most of  their
groups  and having nothing  better to do) we all got  together, the
final  step in my  grand scheme was  to actually set a release date
and then pester  the hell  out of them for their  work (this worked
fairly well in  most cases) a few odd  members joined (i don't know
where they came from but i'm not complaining) and here we are.

that wasn't short damnit...

% member info and other equally unimportant news

senior  members!  senior members  have (almost) been  asigned, they
were picked totally randomly  from a hat (ok, this is a  total lie)
i picked them by  skill, their  attitude, and most  importantly how
much work the have cramed out.. you'll find them in the memberlist.
these  names may, or may not changed as i find more suitable people
for the jobs.

producing members?! wow, alot  of our modders and coders  from last
month's pack have started producing, notably kargus,  natedogg, and
others, natedogg and ring master were both grounded for a good part
of the pack (damn kids) and still managed to release. i'm impressed
oh yeah, before i forget, hysteric is now known as brandx.

new  members.. ok,  new  modders  and stuff, some  of this may seem
slighty  jumbled,  since i added  some of  the new  members to last
month's member list, hmm.. what was i thinking? ok.. menelaus joins
us from illness renegade, defcon IV joines us  from way back in the
days, with pwa, cia and acid moddings (ouch) hysteric join us as an
illusion  modder, well  that's  just nifty.. ring  master  from tms
joins as a rg/iniq and other stuff modder, at the very  end of last
month, black candel, signed up as a ppe (pcb) coder.. nifty

leaving members.. oh, i didn't  really want to have to do this, all
fucking well i guess. my  good buddy of mine  thelemtish quits this
due to lack of time, and other reasons, he might be back later, who
knows?  talisman  of our  coding  department  is  taking a slightly
extended vacation, lack of  time, etc.. i havn't  been able to talk
to black candel or claywar for amazingly long  times... but for now
they're not in danger of being dropped, that is all.

guests and stuff.. special thanks to max headroom (tric) for hangin
with us, running the bots, etc and his enlightening chit chat, also
grymmjack for the nice diz.. aswell as the usual demonic fans!

joining.  to  apply  simply fill out the  enclosed dem-app.exe  and
send  us  yourinitials-app.txt  and  some work.  we  ARE  currently
excepting  applications  for  distros  and  couriers. (though  i am
starting to lose track of them) if you would like  to guest with us
simply contact me on irc.

% random shit (aka my little bitching/whining essay for this month)

excepting applications for distros and couriers.  if you would like

last month's whine update.. the mod  group tric (which  i belive is
now the oldest mod group on the scene)  has taken enough initiative
to do almost exactly what i talked about last pack, setup a modding
archive, for whatever reason, it's only  modpacks (not individuals)
but  who's  complaining? (well,  except  for the groups  that don't
release in packs)  i spent a large  part of my day about a week ago
uploading  all of my 98  mod packs to tric's  server. the server is
not yet complete, but what i've seen of it, it should rock. it will
be demonic's offical ftp site when it is completed. mod  packs will
be aranged by groups. all groups with less then 2 packs (ie, crappy
old ones) will  be in a  misc directory, also the  site will be www
browsable.  when  complete, i  believe  the  site  is  going  up at
ftp.tric.org, but for now, you can look at it by ftping to www.tric
.org, keep checking tric's packs for updates or join #tric on irc.

mods fucking art  mods fucking art.. damnit, i hate  going to leech
the newest  mod packs and  waiting an hour  to get them. and  then,
when i  go to  un-arch it, i  find  myself  having to whade my  way
through a ton of vgas, music, bbs  ads, and/or other  crap before i
actually see any sign of the mods them selves. now get this people,
vgas have abso-fucking-lutly nothing to do with bbs modding, if you
want us to see your pretty jpgs go put them on your web pages. damn
(no offense to vga artists of course) mods? can you hear a mod over
an ansi bbs?! NO. and then there's these crummyly coded bbs ads for
lame  wwiv boards  like "the horrible death" and  "the bloody pool"
(all typed in high ascii, oh but  of course) and if they don't have
the skills to code  alittle demo, or even save  it as a com file in
thedraw, they throw in these  completly suck dick  ansis and asciis
what  the hell? who wants to look at this crap?! ack. like anyone's
actually  going to  call  your  bbses... ok, ok, sorry  that seemed
like alittle less enlightening then the  last pack's editorial, but
most people do tend to  argee with me about  this stuff... the size
of your packs don't matter, just what's inside of them.

% how to contact us (me)

jack phlash's email address.................(jp@washington.xtn.net)
offical demonic ftp site....... .......(the rg info crew's archive)
offical demonic irc channel..................(#demonic on us efnet)
offical demonic whq board..............(distortion, currently down)
offical demonic home page......(www.washington.xtn.net/~jp/demonic)

% misc greets and stuff

a special thanks to all the mod groups i've hung  wish the past few
months, especially tric  and woe for  and even lor  for putting  up
with our angst asses..

also greets to all muh boys in #bbswarez and #cia

oh yeah, and check out ick!mag.exe for other bbs scene news..

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