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

Louis-Philippe Giroux wrote:

Differing Powers - OR - The Teaser I Should Never Have Written

A short Ranma 1/2 - Wheel Of Time exercise in futility

Facts, Stupid Satements and Questions With No Answers in Randland...

- Could Ryoga ever finish a game of Maiden's Kiss without bleeding himself
out (whether from the nose or from the neck)?

Nope, but just cause of the nose.  If he can take that rock shrapnel

>from the breaking point, a spear would probably snap on his neck.

   My theory is that Ryoga's skin is immune to high-velocity impacts from
the shards.  If he gets brushed by a spearpoint, I say it could draw blood.

- 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!

- 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?

- 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...

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!

- 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!

- 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>

- Would angreals and sa'angreals work with chi?

Not at all.

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

- How long until Ranma calls Min "Ucchan" by mistake?

Bring the real thing along and he won't have to.

   As I said in another post, I was referring to their clothing habits.

- 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...

- Would Lanfear leave Rand and end up as another of Ranma's fiancees?

Yes.

- 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!

- 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...

- 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...

- 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...

- Will the Aes Sedai ever get Ranma in a Novice dress?

Will Ranma give the Aes Sedai nervous breakdowns?

   Wouldn't be fun otherwise...

- 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!

- 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!

- How long 'till a Green Sister tries to bond Ranma or Ryoga without their
consent?

Ranma will just view her as another fiancee and treat her like dirt.

   Harsh...  (probably true, mind you, but still harsh)

- Will the White Tower break Akane's temper or will Akane's temper break
the Tower?

Will Ryoga blow up the tower if he thinks Akane's being held against her
will?

- Why aren't I writing more Lines Of Destiny instead of this crap?

Reminds me.  When you finally get around to writing the part where Ranma
has to accept the fact he was a girl in his previous incarnation <yuck>
you have to include a scene where he gets on his knees and begs Luna to
tell him he was a lesbian. :)

   Assuming he *can* speak to Luna without freaking out by then...  ;)

Side Note:  I don't much like the Ranma/Akane destined love angle in
Lines of Destiny.  It kind of turns me off an otherwise excellent
series.  I hates destined love (except for Usagi and Mamoru).

  <Mega-Blink>  Who said they were deep in love back in the days of the
Silver Millenium?  You haven't seen the dream sequences yet!

- I could make a very serious story out of all this junk...

- I could make a very silly story out of all this junk...

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...

Alternate questions:

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

   Very interesting question...

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

   No, he likes Doritos better

Will Ranma take inspiration from Rand, be a man, and marry them all!?

   ROTL!!!

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...

Is the Dark One not evil, just misunderstood?

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

Could the Breaking Point shatter power-forged metal?

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

Come on.  Write this puppy!

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


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