On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 MetroAnime@aol.com wrote:

Ranma 1/2: Ragnarock (DARK) (possibilities for lime)
	Hel nodded. She chose to remain silent.

Hard to talk with half your face dead.  Trust me, I have had an 
approximation.
 > 

	"These are aliens centuries in advance of the
humans in terms of technology, capable of psionic combat.
They have forceshields and powerbeams, antigravity, and
mile long spaceships. Their mothership is damn near the size
of Earth's moon. And they're just completely and totally lame..."

And the universe's worst computer security.

detected by any number of telescopes. The theory is
that something Big disturbed one of the clumps of 

About the size of Earth's moon.

	They call it the Ragnarock. It's a chunk of
rock and ice and some "exotic materials" about the size

Triffids.

December 26, 1991:
	Asteroid:1, Us:0.

oops.

	"Loki" hit. I'm writing this from the raft
we threw together. There's no sign of Akane, and
with her swimming abilities she might not have made
it out of the house when the tsunami hit.

ouch...

	The details I record for posterity. "Loki"
was one of the small chunks, about the size and shape
of a skyscraper. When it hit, the nickel-iron meteor 
slammed into the arctic at nearly Mach Five. It went
boom. Millions of tons of ice vaporized. More melted.
It didn't hit straight on, but almost tunnelled through
the arctic ocean and came out the other side. Almost.

glurble.

	Then the roaring noise. Then the water. It
seemed that when "Loki" approached, it broke apart.
One chunk slammed into the Arctic as described above.
Another chunk managed to hit the water Southeast of
Japan. On a major faultline.

Ouch.

	I wouldn't sell my soul, but my gratitude is
quite sincere. The rescue was yesterday evening so
we really only spent three days on the raft, watching
parts of it sink, with a layer of salt on everything, and

shouldn't that be ash?

	Some girl named Atsuko and a kid
named Ryunnosuke were found during the 

hmm...

	The crew called everyone in to hear this.
Turns out, lots of places like the American Midwest

yay!

	Atsuko (weird girl), Ryunnosuke (elementary 
school kid), some JHS student named Nanami Rokugo, 

?

moon real soon. They've renamed Ragnarock to "Fenris"
now.

hmm...oh, actually, it's one of Fenris' get that's supposed to devour the 
moon...
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Talcum and Rogain are males of an amazon tribe somewhere in China.

boo.

Lufa and Kissu are women of the same tribe (no they're not mates) who

Almost as bad...

washed out as warriors for one reason or the other. The owner's a guy
named Nate Brazil who's a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Ritsuko Fujii

Nate!  Passage to Well World, please...

is the Captain. Tolkein is a short guy who seems to do the impossible
on a regular basis. I get the impression that "Tolkein" is a nickname,
but I'm not sure from what.

Also know as the Mariner...

	When I woke up, I found out that Tolkein had seen me
and had belted me a good one. My jaw is sore but working. If 
what Kissu tells me of my likely fate had I walked out onto the
deck is true, I owe Tolkein BIG time. I also understand why 
Lufa looks ill whenever you mention "Madame Lao" or the name
of her ship.

boo hiss...

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storyline.
	i've been getting a LOT of negative
e-mail about the "Man Among Men" concept,
with Plague of the Four Horsemen introducing
a change in a prevailing wind. It occurred to me
after people were done throwing stones in my
direction after "Enslaved" that I'd at least managed
to get the beehive moving.

hee.

	The aliens don't even need to make
an appearance, they could be REALLY alien and
have an inscrutable motive.

	"Well, we've got it narrowed down to either a move in a 6th 
dimensional 'chess' game, or a surprise Queelar present for their 
Emperor-Duck."

	Ranma in China, finds an injured amazon
girl. Together, they try to overcome the language barrier
and survive as the area is devastated by earthquakes
and new volcanoes forming along the faultlines.

Hmm...

	Akane spends time trapped on a raft with
Kuno. She can't swim.

You really hate her, don't you?

	Senshi being heroic outside of Japan.

Hmm...might contribute a chapter there...what season are they in in 1991?

	The crew of the "Myou no Maru" appears in
Featherbrite's Tale, and is mentioned as the "Chacha Maru"
in Happi Days. Madame Lao appears courtesy of Jim Bader.
She's a survivor, after all.

thought so.

SKJAM!