On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Martin wrote:

I must assume that
Mike had already taken this into consideration and based his plans for
several chapters on what would happen in the 1st chapter. Pressuring him to
change the last part would really disrupt his plans and divert dramatically
from what he originally intended to write in the future chapters. Guys, you
must take the whole and wider view on why he needed to have Ranma raped -
it might just be the deciding factor in determining whether his story
really worked as a whole.

	Well - it is true that I've got this thing pretty much planned 
out for the next 3-4 chapters, in varying degrees of detail.  Then again, 
as always, outlines are to be ignored.  Heck, chapter one grew _way_ 
beyond my original concept.  A suggestion by Krista Perry caused me to 
make some fairly major, if somewhat tentative, changes to the next chapter...
	
	-Mike