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  The men,   the myth,                                                   
  the   legend.  After       It all started 2 or 3 short years ago
  an  almost  3   year    when a group of fun.loving-ansi.drawing-
  absence, NaC returns    519.dialing-roadkill.eating-school.going-yoots   
  to  the  ANSi  scene    decided they were going to start an ANSi group.
  with  a   vengeance.    Little did they know the events which would
  A vengeance for what    unfold before them.               
  you   might   ask? A       NaC started out simple enough, a couple guys
  vengeance   to  take    sitting in their basements drawing blocky
  back their  rightful    pictures and calling themselves artists. Yet what
  spot in ANSi history    was different about these guys were that they
۲ܱܰܲ  possessed, what was at the time, a very distinct
                          and unique ability -- to make people ask themselves
two very important questions:                               
                                                      
 "What the hell is that?".. and .."Why the hell is it still on my screen?" 
                                                                    
It was this gift that swiftly brought them to 5i9 superstardom. Ok, well not
exactly superstardom, but at least people knew who they were. NaC slowly
began expanding its operation. A few more members joined, and soon NaC had
rightfully aquired the name "group". 
 Being one of the founding members of the group, I for one took pride in
knowing that some of our ansi's were the worst ever produced (except for
those guys who made TheDraw). It had become the NaC trademark;shitty fonts,
horrific colour schemes, a decent looking picture with an overly large or
extremely unattractive font. Everything about our ansis made you scream
"NaC!". Unfortunately some of the other group members had different ideas 
about where the group should be taken.                          
 I'm sure the people mentioned in this paragraph would rather have this part
of their ANSi pasts removed permanently from memory, but I'm afraid that's
not possible. It became pretty obvious that members of the group such as  ܲ
Wyvern and WarpuS (:)) were doing their best to draw well. I would have    
normally taken this as a deliberate act to sabotage the entire foundation on
which NaC was built, but instead took the oppurtunity to realize that their
was an obvious creative difference in the group, and therefore it was     
disbanded leaving the remaining members to go their seperate ways.       
 And so started my leave of absence from the ANSi world. Not that I was
really that disappointed anyway. ANSi as an artform really hadn't taken off,
and the majority of work was based on simple pictures and well drawn out
fonts (an art that some have obviously since forgotten). Yet I never truly 
detached myself from the ANSi "scene". Wyvern was (and is) a good friend of
mine and he always had the latest releases from the up and coming groups
along with some of my old favourites. It was during this time period that
ANSi truly began to "mutate". I use the word "mutate" not to say that it
wasn't growing, but rather to suggest that maybe it was growing in the wrong
ways.                                              
  I'm not going to deny that there were a lot of great worksreleased in this
time period, but when comparing it to some of the bad stuff you really get   
a hold of the amount of pure and utter CRAP people were releasing. Never     
before in my life had I sat down in front of an iCE or ACiD pack (just to   
mention a few..) and said to myself "uih, what the hell is that supposed to
be", or "my god, !I! could draw betterthan that!". But the big groups aren't
the only ones to blame for this reaction. It seemed that with every new day 
came a new ANSi group and soon our little "scene" had changed into a full
fledged market where having a name like iCE or ACiD beside your sig made you
god. I'd alsohave to say that it was  the little groups that produced some
of the biggest crap. I thought NaC was bad, boy is this stuff ever... hey,    
wait a minute. NaC WAS bad, some could go as far to say it was the worst, but
now it seems that everyone is out to capture NaC's coveted title!   
  Which brings us to the present, and the reason why NaC is back in business.
It's time to show all those bad-drawing wannabes what really BAD art is all  
about. Puddlez (the only former NaC member willing to take on the project)   
and myself have decided to release our first pack (not to mention our first  
ansis) in 3 years! But this time NaC isn't stopping at ANSi, they're going   
all the way to VGA! We're risking our names to show the world that we truly  
are the worst ANSi/VGA hobbyists (because we are in no way artists) ever     
known.                                                                
                                                  
 Now comes the part where YOU fit in. As of today, NaC has reached it's full
member list, Puddlez and myself. We aren't accepting new members, and we     
don't do board pics, BUT we do wan't some guest artists! So go into ye olde
archives and dig out your raunchiest-awfulest-horriblest-wiggliest ANSi's and
post 'em everywhere. All you have to do is put [NaC] beside your name and
show people what REAL crap looks like! Who knows, maybe some day all those   
big shit ANSi so-called-artists will look at how bad your stuff is, then look
at their stuff and realize that they look identical and say to themselves,   
"hey, why don't i get off my pickle and draw ANSi the way it's supposed to   
be drawn"!!! 


                                     The final word,
                                                -Psyche[NaC]    










