chatmandude, i totally agree with you that one of those possibilities are highly likely to happen, though i also noticed that none of your possibilities says thet we have a chance ( atleat a little) for a successful democracy, arnn't you being a little too much pessimistic , atleast there should be one up their saying some positive outcome, like say The Kings gives in, agrees to hold an election for constitutent assembly , maoist agree to join the election , we hold election with UN monitoring, the constutuent assembly unanimously declares nepal as a Republic and then we have a normal Nepal after that with new leaders.( that's ahope atleast , arn't we all fighting in our own way to achieve that).