Louis-Philippe Giroux wrote:

At 14:56 -0500 12/11/97, Matthew Campbell wrote:

Louis-Philippe Giroux wrote:

- Would Mat try to put the moves on Onna-Ranma?

- Would Mat's luck protect him from her wrath?

Yes and his luck wouldn't protect him.  No power can protect you from an
enraged anime female.

   But Mat doesn't know that!

People tend to keep a lot of things from Mat, all to his disdain.
 

- Can Mat's fox medallion counter chi?

Sure, but then Ranma would just punch him.

   Can the medallion counter chi?  Depends on how the author is feeling, ne?

With the way the author keeps going on about that, I'd
have to say it's a really high possibility.
 

- Where could Ryoga's anti-directional sense possibly lead him?
Tel'aran'rihod?  Shayol Ghul?  An Aiel sweat tent?  Rhuidean?  The Court of
the Nine Moons in Seanchan (okay, so I'd have to wing that one...)?  The
Tower of Ravens?  The Amyrlin's private quarters?  Endless possibilities!

Everybody thinks he's using undetectable gates.

   He's gonna give the Aes Sedai and the Asha'man headaches...

"He's inverting his weaves, I tell you!"

Y'know, if you start earlier in the book, those cool guys in
black won't be around.
 

An army.  Only about 7-10 could encircle him at once and for all their
training, they still only have human speed and strength.  Considering
the kind of damage he regularly shrugs off, glancing blows aren't going
to cut it.

   Ah, but if they have swords, it might change!

So true.
 

- What happens if you mix Ranma, cats, Aes Sedai, Asha'man, cannon
fod<AHEM> people and *no* Akane?  Dumai's Well revisited!

I bet the Neko-Ken could actually shred the One Power.

   Creative license immunity again!  Love that concept!

Gotta love it!
 

- What happens if you hit a Portal stone with a stray Hiryuu Kourin Dan?
(Assuming there *is* such a thing as a stray Hiryuu Kourin Dan in the first
place...)

You open up a permanent portal to Nerima, allowing still more
super-martial artists to go through.

   <Evil Grin>

Cool idea!
 

- Would angreals and sa'angreals work with chi?

Not at all.

   It doesn't need to be *fully* compatible...

Tends to filter that bad Dark One taint...
 

- How does a macho *male* martial artist survive in the White Tower?

He offends a lot of Aes Sedei.  (What exactly could they do to him if he
absolutely refused to cooperate?)

   I can think of a few things...

...without breaking the vows?

"How'd you hit him?"
"Eh?"
"You broke the... EVERYONE! HEY! BLACK SISTER!"
 
 >> - How much would Rand pay for that to happen?

Lots, until he realizes he got Kodachi in exchange.

  HA HA!  A true stroke of genius!

ROTFL! That's a good one!
 

- Will Ranma ever find out why people ran away screaming 'Aiel' the first
time he killed a Trolloc with some martial arts moves?

Will the real Aiel beg Ranma to teach them his moves?  Will onna-Ranma
join the Maidens of the Spear?  Will Shampoo join the Maidens?

   I wasn't planning on bringing Shamps at the beginning...

Ya don't need her any...err (looks at all the Shams fans)
you can bring her along, if you want.
 

- How long 'till the Aes Sedai figure out the difference between chi and
the One Power?

Can chi disrupt the One Power?  Will a jealous Ryoga develop a bunch of
new chi tricks to compensate for Ranma being able to channel.  Will
Ranma learn them?  Is this going to turn into Dragonball Z and Randland
gets blown up?

   Dragonball Z?  Mmmhhh...  Super Hiryuu Kourin Dan... Genki-dama...
lemme see here...

DBZ can wait. It's hard enough discussing the Ranma/WoT x-over
without bringing in Super Saiyajins.
 

- Big Damage Concept:   A One Power-ed version of the Hiryuu Kourin Dan
with the super sa'angreal statue from Cairhien.  (Breaking, Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, eat your heart out...)

That's a blow up the planet move.

   Genki-dama revised...  I was thinking on the scale of the Namek
Genki-dama at least...

And the're worried about breaking the world.

"Ranma! You're a reincarnation of one of the hundred companions!"
"Don't yell it out, Akane."
"You and your friends broke the world!"
"Great, it's always my fault. Really. We save the world from
the Dark One, and this is how we get repaid. 'You broke the
world. It's Ranma's fault'. Great. I'm gonna go back and talk
to Demandred now. I hear that Mr. Great Lord is more thankful
of his friends."
 

- How long would Happosai survive if he groped an Aes Sedai?

- How long would Happosai survive if he groped an Aiel Wise One?

- How long would Happosai survive if he groped the Amyrlin?

A long time.  The old pervert's indestructible.

   Not even perverts can stand up to balefire!

If none of them know the weave, though...
 

- A small, black piglet that can channel is a Very Cute, Yet Very
Dangerous Thing.

In all seriousness (little late for that) I don't think Ryoga needs to
be able to channel.  In fact, I'm not sure you should have more than one
Ranma cast member able to channel.  Let's face it, they're powerful
enough as is.

   <whine>  But it's so... plot-device-like!

<whine> Yeah!

It has to be a silly story.  Everyone trys to do a Wheel of Time
crossover seriously and they all abandon their fics.  Why?  Because you
can't compete with Jordan when it comes to seriousness.  You've got to
get silly.  Come on, there's so much in WoT just begging to be made fun
of.

   Some said silly, some said serious...

Hey, YOU could be the one to do a serious WoT story. Yes, you!
(To all the denizens of the FFML!)

Try it out, I dare ya!
 

Will ranma willingly allow his male half to be gentled (if he can
channel)?  Will this affect his female half?

   Very interesting question...

...one that shouldn't be answered by us, lest we meet Ranma's wrath.
 

Will the Dark One send his minions out on a quest for Hostess Twinkie
Cakes?

   No, he likes Doritos better

I eat Tostitos with dip. ^_^
 

Will the notion of another dimension outside their Wheel of Time totally
blow the minds of the Randland inhabitants and cause them to lose faith
in their cosmological view?

   It could...

What about those alternate worlds from the portal stones?
 

Is the Dark One not evil, just misunderstood?

   If so, it's the biggest, freakin' misunderstanding in the history of the
universe...

"Kasumi! YOU'RE the Dark One! My own sister!"
---
"Ranma! YOU'RE the Dark One! My Dad engaged me to the Dark One?!"
"Hey, it's a misunderstanding. It's not my fault, really."
 

Could the Breaking Point shatter power-forged metal?

   Not in my opinion.  The Bakusai Tenketsu shatters rock, not metal.

Well, if he got bored enough to look for their breaking points,
he could make a new technique (though Ryouga tends to learn
techniques from others).
 

Come on.  Write this puppy!

   <whimpers>  I'm gonna get killed my my LoD pre-readers...

And then you won't be able to write either story! Wait, evil
idea forming! You were a girl in you're previous life, only
to die, live again, learn you were a sailor senshi, die, be
a guy, etc, etc... And it all turns out it was Ranma's fault, 
and it was only a revengefic.

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