Re: what is it about angels?

"Will in New Haven" posts, in part:

  Fritz' defiance of the angel reminds me more than
  a little of Huck Finn when he was sure he would
  go to Hell if he helped Nigger Jim, but he helped
  nonetheless. If an angel out of a cloud had told
  him not to, Huck would still had done the right
  thing. The most heroic moment in American
  literature, in my opinion.

I don't remember Jim selling orphans into slavery.

I agree with you that part of what Mary is seeing here is a clash
between a style which allows the characters to figure out their own
ethics and morals and a system with predefined alignments.  That said,
given that the system has predefined alignments, I think the angel is
fulfilling itself perfectly:  it is forcefully reminding the player
characters of what those alignments are, in a way the player
characters can't ignore.

Warren J. Dew