Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! God, it's amazing what happens when unemployed musicians and computer geeks with way too much time on their hands get together over a great concept like MiddleMax and let fly! Yee-Hah!

I'm not at all sure it will be possible or even advisable to cobble together a single story line that unites all these characters. Remember, it took a lot of different people to fight World War II, and they weren't all in the same platoon, that's for sure. But, there's bound to be some crossover here and there. Shatnir, naturally, pokes his big fat nose in everywhere, and I must say I love that description of Rick O'the Fielding's prestigious lodgings...bloody marvelous!

Carry on, ye mad fools, and beware Mauron's minions for they lurk where you least expect them.

- LH