At 03:47 PM 29/10/97 -0600, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Matthew Campbell wrote: 

Well, the youma-killer seemed to think it was their only option.  He 
must have had some reason to think they couldn't bargain or negotiate 
with her.  It might not be a good reason, but he knew how powerful she 
was.  It seems logical that if he believed anything but an all-out 
attack would work, he would have tried it.

I'm curious as to how, in a month, they determined that she was not
amenable to negotiation.  As far as I can tell from the two stories, they
simply assumed she was not.  There's not a hint that they ever tried and
failed.

True, but I'm very much using a swiss-cheese and spak-filla type story 
telling style(Hmm... spak-filla and swiss-cheese. Tasty. Mmmmm....), almost
every new journal entry in IHtH opens five new plot holes, some of which are
then filled in by other journals, and so on... The same goes for these little
sidestories.

I will get round to the question of the two sides actually trying to talk to
each other first, eventually, in one person's view or another. 

He might think about what he is doing, and stop, she hopes.

What he's writing is pretty heavily slanted towards his side.  I don't 
see why rereading it would make him any less fervent about his cause.

Well, we're not desperate, either.  I think that's what she hoped, though.

I shall clarify her hoping that he sees himself for what he 'truly' is through
his own journals,  when I go and fix it up, before I send it to my webpage 
and the Sailor Romance site. 

But if you're still here, that means he didn't succeed.  There's no
if-then in time travel.

Assuming only one time stream and instantaneous changing of the time
stream.  Time Travel involves a lot of confusing metaphysics :)

You'll scream when I finish my Legion of Super Heroes/SM crossover, 'A
Tale of Two 30th Centuries', which has enough time travel and dimension
hopping to explode anyone's head :)  

I'll pop two aspirin in anticipation(time travel can really give a headache...)
^_^

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