From:	Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject:	Decipher + FASA
Date:	Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:40:43 EDT

In a message dated 7/24/1999 10:45:21 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
Schizi@***.com writes:

> well, the extent of the "buyout" is not known right now. Perhaps the
FASACorp
>
> is purchased by Decipher, and the cost includes stock (assuming stock
> available, or % etc. ) in Decipher for the FASA heads?
> As I said on an AOL board, it seems strange to me that FASA would take
the
>
> time and money to get Ral Partha and go through with the MS deal, then
sell
> to Decipher unless;
> 1) They were seriously in the hole money-wise and had to

Not likely...I'm being serious here...

> 2) The new parent corp opened up more opportunities for FASA as a whole.

Very likely IMO ... Decipher is powerful force in its' own right.

> 3) The owners of FASA got offered such an excessive amount of money, they
> had
> to take it and run.


Very Possible, but that would depend on whether or not my gut instincts were
correct or not.

-K