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That to me was probably the best review I read thus far On AO and MO. Very nice!

Anyway, it probably was a secret to an extent in the fact that all of the Muds were in the dark on the matter. I mean sure there was the sign saying "Comming soon something new and tasty!",
but I am pretty sure none of the Muds realized that New and tasty was going to be them. I mean they knew something new was going to be made but they didn't know that it was going to be them until Abe found out. So to an extent I am saying, the meeting was secretive in the way it was takeing place during late night hours.

It had to have been, otherwise there wouldn't have been a good story to start off with. Its always cool when you have at the beginning of a great story, the "Bad Guys" putting together their evil, sadistic plans and the "would be hero" finds out. Thats a classic plot device used quite frequently in Oddworld.