Well first; ***YES!!!!!!***  It ***WORKED!!!!!!*** <much maniacal
laughter>  After not being able to post for *months* to the FFML due to
downstream outgoing-header trouble it looks like I can *finally* circumvent
the problem.
	Ok; I assume I'm posting rather than re-posting this as I assume the
original never reached the FFML.  Again if you've seen this before just ignore
it. ^_^  I used to be able to post quite happily until (I assume it to be the
problem) my downstream site changed from Sendmail to Qmail which is making a
total ruin of outgoing headers.  So far as I can tell *no* magister address is
getting to the FFML and I've more or less given up for the moment with posting
directly from here.  This is a last-ditch attempt using Sendmail on another
site to post pre-formatted outgoing mail and it seems to be working (for the
moment anyway).
	If anyone wants to do something with these feel more than free -- I'd
like to try but I've enough with DC without taking on anything else. ^_^

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1)	[R1/2] -- dark - character centred (before Nodoka learns of the
curse).

	This one was inspired by the fright I got early this year when I found
out I had a very mild heart-valve leak (nothing even slightly dangerous but it
gave me a bit of a start ^_^ ) and is the one I'd be least inclined to bother
writing.  Still:
	Over the past few weeks Ranma hasn't felt quite himself; nothing too
serious, just a little tired, run-down, the occasional tightness in the left
elbow, shoulder, neck, jaw etc.  - nothing to worry about; and only in male
form.  Then one evening during practice alone in the dojo, the feeling gets
suddenly far worse before abruptly he loses his balance and remembers nothing
more until he wakes sprawled on the floor with the pain still more intense.
He says nothing about it to anyone and dismisses comments over the following
days regarding his lack of appetite and his looking unusually pale and wan.
The problem however doesn't go away -- whenever he exerts himself the pain
gets worse and he feels nauseous until at last during a fight with Ryoga he
collapses again.  He looks terrible but convincing himself that he got in a
lucky shot despite feeling very uneasy Ryoga gives Ranma the cold-water-wakeup
and Ranma-chan is immediately fine and finishes the fight with no trouble.
That night P-chan is lying awake in Akane's room worrying despite himself when
he hears Ranma leave his room and make his way to the bathroom.  The door
closes, then there's a faint crash.  Finding his way for once, Ryoga reaches
the bathroom to find Ranma-kun passed out on the floor and a horrible grey
colour.  Panicking, Ryoga manages to change back and rouse the family.  Dr.
Tofu is called and after a quick check snaps urgently at someone to call an
ambulance.  Ranma stirs, clutching at his left shoulder and asking for water.
Trying to give it to him, Akane spills it on him and Ranma-chan is immediately
fine again.  Tofu checks him and looks confused, then Kasumi arrives with tea
for him and the lot ends up on Ranma.  Immediately Ranma gasps and goes
horribly grey again.  Tofu manages to fight off his Kasumi fixation and
examine him again just as the ambulance arrives.
	Ranma is rushed to hospital despite still trying to claim that he's
alright.  The family with Ryoga make their own way there as quickly as they
can to be told to their shock that Ranma has had a mild heart-attack and worse
that the degeneration is congenital, increasing and irreversible.  Eventually
he will need a transplant if he's going to live.  Remembering how the change
seemed to help, Tofu does tests on Ranma's female form and confirms that in
that form there is no problem.  Tofu further finds that, as he suspected,
Ranma's every cell is infused with the curse -- the transplanted heart will
not change when he changes forms.  The rest of the story would deal with the
consequences for everyone, what Ranma would tell his mother; whether he would
choose to live as a girl or face either death or debilitation (so far as I
know he certainly couldn't continue with the intensive martial-arts training
he's used to after a heart-transplant no matter how successful); what his
future would be with Akane (I'd assume in this case that although they realise
they love one another and admit it in the light of what's happening Akane is
only physically attracted to his true form).
	I've no ideas as to how things would be resolved; what he'd choose;
whether he could be cured by becoming completely female then diving in the
Nanichuan to take on the drowned-man form; whether Cologne could do
something...

2)	[SM/R1/2] -- dark - which reality is the definitive (set immediately
after the Neherenia arc of SS before Chibi-Usa leaves and close to the final
volume of R1/2)?

	Wouldn't mind having a crack at this but I'll probably never get
around to it with writing DC so feel free to use it.
	It's the middle of the night (about 1 in the morning) when Usagi is
shocked violently from an unusually uneasy sleep by Luna clawing at her.  The
cat has surged awake, thrashing and hissing after a terrible nightmare (in
which she is only an observer) of the Silver Millennium on the night of
Beryl's attack.  In the dream a darkness beyond anything Metallia could have
conceived appears, first swallowing the demon queen, Beryl and her forces as
though they had never existed, then sweeping to engulf the Millennium forces,
the Senshi and the palace.  Alone and utterly horrified, Serenity raises the
Ginzuishou, but the force reaches her and the crystal simply dissolves into
nothingness in her hand before she fades into oblivion while faraway Luna
hears Pluto scream and scream while a voice seems to chant: `Very tragic story
of Silver Millennium that never exist.  Very tragic story!!!'.
	Luna has barely told Usagi when her door opens and a crying Chibi-Usa
stumbles in saying that she's had a nightmare she can't remember and can she
stay with Usagi for the rest of the night?  At almost the same moment Usagi's
communicator signals and she opens it to reveal a white-faced Rei who
*demands* that she get to the temple as quickly as she possibly can and not to
leave Chibi-Usa behind for *any* reason.  Hot on the heels of that come calls
from the other inner Senshi, all of whom have awakened from very uneasy dreams
they can't remember (except for Minako who was awakened by Artemis in the way
Luna woke Usagi).
	Usagi (late of course and complaining all the way) reaches the temple
to find the others waiting and that both Artemis and Rei have had the same
dream as Luna but that Rei's also included a desperate fear that something
terrifying was quickly approaching and the certainty that the others had to
get to the shrine as quickly as they could.  She has barely finished when
Ami's computer starts to scream and at almost the same moment there is a roar
and the piercing scream of tyres outside.  In the next instant Haruka,
Michiru, Hotaru and Setsuna explode into the room (through anything in their
way), screaming and screaming at everyone to transform.  Moments later and in
their Senshi forms the ten race outside (perhaps just in time to see the four
asteroid Senshi arrive as well - it would be interesting to include them in
something?) and freeze in utter horror.  The sky is turning a horrific blood-
red and as they watch the stars seem to be exploding and dissipating before
their eyes.  Then even as Mamoru (already transformed) comes leaping into the
temple grounds to join them a blinding flash to the west where the sun has set
fills the sky and Tokyo begins to burn while about them the earth groans and
the air seems thick and cloying.  Ghost-white, Pluto screams at the others to
gather around her and link hands while she focuses for a sailor-teleport.
Then a roiling, red-tinged darkness explodes into the sky, swallowing the
city, the leaping fires and (as Ami tells them numbly as she watches through
her visor) reality itself as it surges towards the shrine.  For one horrible
moment everyone stands helpless while the power builds, then Pluto triggers
the teleport even as the copper-edged darkness reaches to engulf them and
everything vanishes in fire and pain.
	The others come to to find themselves already racing through what
appears to be dimly-lit stone passages and at their questions Pluto explains
that they escaped only just in time, that they are now outside time and that
what they see is a construct of her's to help them exist in an environment in
which they could otherwise not survive.  Reaching the tunnel's end at last
they halt before the ornate gate of time and there Pluto tells them the
enormity of the horrible truth, that as things stand their entire history is
an aberration, the Silver Millennium never existed and that only by removing
them from reality has she salvaged any chance for what was now only a
potential timeline that never came to pass.  Stunned, the others watch as she
raises her staff to indicate the fractured ruin of the gate, a gate now
suddenly devoid of any reference either to Pluto or the Millennium in its
design.  Moments later it staggers open and they pass through, tumbling out
into an alley-way a block or so from Usagi's home an hour or so before dawn,
the gate disintegrating completely even as they escape and so ensuring that
they can't go back as things stand.
	Immensely relieved that things seem to be alright again, Usagi goes
tearing off towards her house while the others try to stop her.  They reach
her at last to find her staring in horror, tears in her eyes.  Her home has
ceased to exist and an apartment block has taken its place.  Numb, the Senshi
wander the streets, sticking close together while Pluto walks silently at the
rear, seeming lost in thought until a scream from Minako rouses her.  She has
halted and is staring through the window of a book-store.  In the illumination
cast by a street-light they join her to see a Manga prominently displayed;
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon.
	I haven't considered what will happen after that but basically they
find that the Ranma reality has replaced their own (a world that was Manga
when their's existed) and that they're nothing but fiction in the Ranmaverse.
Just what destroyed their history I'm not sure but there are aberrations in
the Ranmaverse as a result of its creation, Jusenkyo being the most prominent
result of the reality-warping caused by the ripping of the past Ginzuishou
from the fabric of existence.  I'd also have the Nanban mirror somehow
responsible for what happened, thus creating a paradox -- the Senshi reality
was destroyed by something someone did with the Nanban but the Nanban
shouldn't have existed until the Senshi reality was replaced by the Ranmaverse
but somehow did, the only possibility being therefore that it was used by the
Senshi at some future time in the Ranmaverse to restore their world and passed
into it (so the paradox is created).  At present the Senshi have no past or
future and only exist because they were outside reality when their's vanished.
Which is the *real* history and what will each group do once they meet and
learn that for their world to survive the other must be sacrificed?

3)	[SM] _Virgin Blood_ -- *very* dark (set after SS)

	I'd *really* like to have a crack at this, but again I'm determined to
finish DC before starting on something else so if anyone wants it ...
	This would begin in the year 1999 (unless  a canonical year for the
beginning of the great darkness exists; in which case it would be that).  It
is the end of the pre-Crystal-Tokyo Era and the beginning of the great
darkness that is to last for two-hundred years.
	As the world slowly freezes and technology fails to provide any hope
of reprieve, religious despotism and savage rites and ritual of innumerable
variation appear throughout the world; everything from the rabid Christian
fundamentalism of the Dying U.S., to the fanatical demands for Islamic Jehad
in a middle-east ravaged by war, to the Hindu massacres of an Indian Muslim
population trying desperately to flee to a Pakistan and Bangladesh hopelessly
unable to cope with the influx and the escalating border-war with their larger
neighbour, to a China and Vietnam locked in a death-struggle whilst a
desperate Tibet begins one final attempt to throw off the shackles of the
hated overlord, to an Africa that has become a hell of human suffering of
hitherto almost unimaginable proportions as foreign aid ceases to exist.  In
the south, a dying Australia and New Zealand have closed themselves to the
flood of refugees while Indonesia and Malaysia are torn apart from within
while in Britain the hitherto-welcomed minorities of the old empire perish in
the growing climate of fanatical racial purification, an attitude reflected in
a Europe clinging desperately to the last vestages of relative stability.  In
short the giant that is our civilisation is collapsing horribly into chaos and
anarchy and nothing and no one can stop the inevitable slide into death and
oblivion.  Only in one country shines a beacon of hope for the future.
	Sickened at what is happening world-wide and helpless to prevent what
they know must come to pass for the future they've seen to exist, the nine
primary Senshi (and perhaps also the other four might be in this too - they
don't get much exposure), Mamoru and the cats begin their final preparations
and after much soul-searching, decide to reveal themselves and their hope to a
Japan falling slowly into despair in the hope that the best of the culture
they love and records and artifacts that could prove irreplaceable can be
saved before it is too late.  Realising the enormity of the risk, the others
keep Usagi in check for as long as possible, knowing that she'll become a
target for fanatics either eager to seize the crystal or use her to save their
own nation(s) the moment her power is revealed.  Finally as the year
approaches its end they relent and hold one final meeting at one of Pluto's
safe-houses (they have fled Tokyo months earlier - the city is now a very
dangerous place).  At the conclusion of Usagi's confirmation of the decree
Pluto rises without a word and preparing to depart, turns one last time to the
future neo-queen.
	"So let it be Majesty."  She says softly, and on her face is a look of
such sudden infinite pain, weariness and uncharacteristic sympathy that all
present shiver and Rei experiences a sudden terrible foreboding that has her
sleepless for nights to come.
	The results of the revelation seem far better than expected and given
at least some hope the tattered remnants of the nation pull together and
prepare for what is to come.  As the final weeks approach, the Senshi, housed
now in the imperial palace and closely guarded are kept very busy as special
executive power is given them in the growing fight to save what they can.
Usagi finds herself already queen in all but name and a growing beacon of hope
world-wide as the tale of what is happening in Japan leaks out despite all
attempts to prevent it.  There are many attempts to take or kill her for the
power she wields but her Senshi guard never leave her side and after some
initial hesitation to kill to protect her by the inners (the others have no
such reservations) death becomes *very* certain for anyone who tries.
	Finally the night of December 31st is upon them.  As midnight (the
moment at which it has been decided that Usagi will use the Ginzuishou to
purify the world and place the people of her future capital in stasis until
the darkness ends (she can't save more people than that)) approaches, a last
desperate mood of celebration envelops the city while Usagi, Mamoru and the
others watch from the protection of the palace, knowing that in the moment of
purification they will change forever and become their far greater future-
selves, their old lives set behind them.  In their civilian guise for the last
time (I reason that, although they'll still be able to detransform from their
Sailor Fukus after the purification they won't be actually able to revert to
their non-Senshi forms) they gather for their own final bash, waiting until
the last possible moment.  Then it is time and the imperial guard dismissed,
the Senshi are alone at last.  They transform and draw close about their queen
and king, there for Usagi in this final moment of truth.  Clutching Luna in
one arm while Mamoru and the others hold her for reassurance (Minako has
Artemis about her neck for her own reassurance) they hear the tolling of the
bells that herald the end of the world as it has been.  Pluto lifts her staff
and Usagi concentrates, the crystal leaving her brooch to hover above her at
the exact centre of the group.  Usagi hesitates for one final moment, then at
Pluto's signal she stirs, the power of the Ginzuishou fills the world and the
world changes.
	As they knew would happen, the majority of humanity perish painlessly
in the purification, their cleansed spirits too exhausted to remain in their
current bodies, the Ginzuishou's power sending them far into the future to a
kinder reincarnation.  For those who survive beyond Tokyo the changes are
subtle but will ensure that they will fight together rather than against one
another to preserve what can be preserved.  Within Tokyo the people who have
survived the cleansing freeze, caught in the reality-warping power of the
Ginzuishou while protective crystal manifests to encase them.  The city itself
however (apart from a few places such as the Hikawa Ginja in which archives
and artifacts have been preserved) is not protected (the power isn't infinite
after all) and will be ruins by the time the people wake.  The only other
manifestation of the purification is a momentary image of Usagi and the others
in the minds of every survivor and the opening of magick once more to the
world.  So ends our era.
	It is now 2199 and the darkness has retreated before the coming
awakening.  Fourteen-year-old Naoko is the fifth of eleven children of a
simple but happy peasant farming couple living in a small but comfortable
house close to the village of Tsukino/Serenity/(if someone can think of a good
name, fine -- it would have to be something that indicated its religious
significance) the closest settlement to the holy sanctuary of the ruins of
Tokyo.  Naoko is special.  Just what powers she's manifested so far I'm not
certain but I imagine her as having the potential to become the greatest
magick-user since the fall of the Silver Millenium (not counting the Senshi
and Endymion) although so far she's realised only a tiny fraction of that
potential.  I'd spend a chapter or two becoming familiar with her, her family
(6 girls, 5 boys) and her world, a world driven by religious ferver as the
coming of the supreme moon-Goddess and her divine consorts grows near.  Just
how horrificly the tale of Usagi's and the others' history and their future
status as absolute rulers has been corrupted over the centuries I'm not sure
but suffice it to say the rites to them would be *far* from pretty and would
include much sacrifice, both animal and human(criminal) and their history
would have become a fanatical religious creed.  In their honour, the nation of
Nihon has become a matriarchy and is ruled by a High Moon Priestess in
Serenity's name, chosen (as are all the priestesses of the Supreme Moon
Goddess and her eight(or twelve if the Amazon senshi are in this) consorts and
the priests of the God Endymion) from those with the highest potential for
magickal manipulation.  The religious structure would be extremely rigid and
would consist of the high-Moon priestess (ruler), her court of High Priestess
(one for each Senshi) consort-advisers and her only male consort (the High
Priest of Endymion, god of Earth).  I've absolutely no stomach for describing
the inner workings of each temple but suffice it to say that I use the word
`consorts' deliberately and promiscuity amongst the clergy would be common
(but please don't make this a lemon - the purpose in having things turn out
like this is to horrify the Senshi's sensibilities, *not* to titilate), this
part of the culture caused by the most innocent of actions, that being the
fact that the others were holding fiercely to Usagi and one another for mutual
comfort, support and the need to manifest maximum power for the purification
at the moment they were frozen in clear crystal.  The `Great Temples' (one for
each Senshi and Endymion) are the only post-20th-century  structures permitted
within the holy confines themselves (these being defined as everything
encompassing the ruins of Tokyo) and it is death for anyone but clergy to
enter the confines -- smaller vilage temples exist to serve the people.
	The time of awakening approaches and it is decreed that for the first
time a very special sacrifice will be made to the supreme Moon Goddess and her
court on the night of their awakening, this being the most powerful fourteen-
year-old virgin female potential mage in the realm (that age chosen because of
the age at which the Moon Goddess first realised her powers and destroyed the
arch-demon Metallia and the demon-queen Beryl), the clergy believing that at
the moment of death the girl will be sent to the afterworld of Silver
Millenium (where all good people go after death of course and where the
Goddess and her court go whenever they wish) to become the highest non-senshi
servant yet to the Moon Goddess and her senshi, in perpetuity.  Of course
Naoko is found and chosen and accepts her fate gladly.
	The night comes and, now initiated into the ranks of the clergy, Naoko
accompanies the high council and the chosen guard to the holiest of holies,
the very chamber in which the Goddess, her Senshi and the God sleep.  The
translucent crystal surrounding them begins to glow and prepared, Naoko moves
forwards and as the crystal shatters and she gazes into the stirring face of
the Moon Goddess she bares the ceremonial tanto and commits sepuku.  It is to
this sight that the young Neo-Queen Serenity opens her eyes.  Her reaction is
pure instinct as, still barely aware, she lashes out desperately with the
power of the Ginzuishou and heals Naoko of her wounds, thus confirming the
miracle of her power and condemning herself and the others to waking to a
maniacally fanatical clergy and a people told how Naoko has been chosen and is
the new high-Priestess of the restored Moon Goddess.
	This is as far as I've considered.  I've no idea just how on earth
Neo-Queen Serenity, her court and the restored citizens of 20th-century Tokyo
would cope with such a terrible corruption of their hopes, a corruption Pluto
new they would have to deal with in the moment it was decided to reveal the
Senshi's plans for the future *before* the darkness.  Worst of all however is
the fact that despite the fanatical, perverse travesty of a culture to which
they have awakened, the people are *not* evil and truly believe that what they
have done is right (no derivation of `Moon Healing Escalation' will work
here).  There is no easy solution and the Senshi have to deal with the
terrible reality of a culture that is IMO not just possible but very likely
given the dreadful hardships of surviving during the darkness and the post-
20th- century-civilisation people's proximity to the single ray of hope for a
future beyond its end.

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	Well, there you are.  As I said, I haven't the time to do these and
probably won't in the near future so feel free to use or abuse ^_^ in any way
you see fit.  At the least they might have given someone some ideas.

		Craig(going back to writing DC now)