From:        Mike W. Loader, mloader@scs.unr.edu

Ryoga's Voice: (from a distance) Chaos Butterfly Weather Point!

(The sky, previously clear, suddenly fills with dark storm clouds. 
A huge funnel cloud forms over the bar, and bolts of lightning 
blast down upon the hapless structure.)

It looks like Ryoga's been practicing.  Maybe it's just some attack I've
never heard of before, though.  I hope we get to see how he learns this if
it's the former.

Ryoga, in true R 1/2 tradition, has picked up yet another ridiculously
powerful technique to beat Ranma with. And yes, a later flashback will
explain all.

Borrowed from popular conceptions of chaos theory, right? You know, the 
bit that says a butterfly's flapping its wings *here* can cause storms 
*there*, thousands of miles away? :)

Terry Pratchett also does a nice riff on this in _Interesting Times_, a 
recent Discworld book. 

Phone: (hesitantly) Hi...you probably don't remember, but you held 
me prisoner and threatened me with torture unless I became your 
concubine a few weeks back...anyway, what are you doing next 
Saturday?

Coool...

Most people have been up in arms over that bit. I think I've earned my
place on the Kuonji Jihad hit list. :)

I dunno... right now, they're probably all exhausted from the latest 
character-discussion-that-got-out-of-hand. About the only positive thing 
I can say about it. :(



Travis Butler
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