From:	Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Maxim, again?!
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:17:47 -0700

>Why is it that Maxim always gets the nasty stuff? First they had Dante (OK,
>they where just taking advantage of what he was doing, but still), then they
>had the nukes (which that witch Velli tricked Irish into helping them steal),
>and now they got "Randal Flagg"!

The details of this are such that they really don't have "Randall Flagg" as
such, so it isn't and won't be a problem. I'm not going to reveal any
specifics, so please trust me on this one.

>I know that Maxim is Brian's baby, but can we please, please, blast them back
>to the stone-age?

Nope. Sorry. I'm trying very hard to keep them low key these days, mostly
because I don't want them blasted back into the stone age. RL is taking
too much time to do a decent Maxim plot justice anyway.

> It was bad enough with just Aztechnology. At least with
>the Azzies, you didn't _know_ what they had. It made it alot easier to go
>through life without knowing that some power-hungry, consciousless, murderous
>corp with a grudge against several members of the shadow comunity had gotten
>their hands on a super weapon.

I personally think that every megacorp is power-hungry, consciousless and
murderous and has has grudges against several members of the shadow
community. I would love to see the champions of the people like Ares or
Fuchi brought down a notch or three, since I'm of the opinion that they're
no better really than Aztechnology, just a little less obvious about it.

I think it comes down to this: Maxim gets most of the toys because it's a
megacorp in the hands of a player rather than in the hands of FASA. Maxim
won't change the world according to FASA in really significant ways, but
putting something like Flagg in the hands of Aztechnology or Yamatetsu or
Fuchi has a far greater chance of screwing the world in major ways,
something that can't really be done fairly.

Brian