Subject: [FFML] SV: [fanfic][Ranma/GL] Bedlam Fire chapter 1
From: "Hans Holm" <hansholm@bredband.net>
Date: 11/22/2000, 6:00 AM
To: <ffml@fanfic.com>, "Allyn Yonge" <ayonge@yahoo.com>

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Just a few nitpicks to spoil everbody's fun.

I liked this, but I can't show my appreciation

any other way.



Hans Holm



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From: Allyn Yonge <ayonge@yahoo.com>

To: <ffml@fanfic.com>

Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 3:38 AM

Subject: [FFML] [fanfic][Ranma/GL] Bedlam Fire chapter 1





The  characters  of the Ranma 1/2 universe  are  the

creation   and   possession  of  the  brilliant   Rumiko

Takahashi.  They  belong  to Rumiko  Takahashi  and  her

licensees   (Shogakukan   Inc.,   Kitty-Fuji   TV,   Viz

Communications   Inc.)  No  copyright  infringement   is

intended.  =20

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"The Green Lantern", copyright ALL-AMERICAN COMICS

 # 16 (July 1940)  =20

I thought DC comics was/is the actual copyright holder. But then

again, the legal (or any other) aspects of Green Lantern is not my

area of expertise.

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(Note: Green Lantern #16  provided the inspiration for this

story. However only the colour green remains.)

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     Zhang, the necromancer, turned the stone in his hands.=20

It wasn't really stone, but then Zhang wasn't really his name.

Not the one he'd been born with decades earlier, thousands of

miles away in the black forests of Germanica.  Before the

My books say Germania (as well as Britannia, Gallia, Hispania etc.).

I don't speak Latin, but I think Germanica is the wrong inflection.

(cp. Encyclopedia Britannica)



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     Satisfied that her flanks were secured, Adalwolfa

raised her fist high and pumped it twice to signal her war-hand=20

before beginning her advance.  Today she was going to finish

the job her warrior-monk great-grandfather=20

Who obviously didn't really care about his vows.

Which leads us to ask why he became a monk.=20

The travels? The uniform? The Glamour?

Free bed and board at monasterys all over Europe?



     Crawling slowly through grass close cropped by herds

of goats she listened to the whirr of insects and smelled the

rich soil that she bruised in passing. The sun seemed warmer,

the sky bluer and she wondered if this would be her last day

alive. Death rested lightly on her soul. The thought of failure

turned her bowls=20

bowels?



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     Seven days it had taken her. Seven days without food,

drink or sleep. Yet she felt as if she'd just begun. She'd been

terrified that any inattention to her task would be taken as a

lack of faith by Kwannon and her son would die. As she had

told the monk, she had no skills as an artesian

artisan? But I assume she wouldn't be a very skilled well either.



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     "I didn't sleep well." Came the mumbled reply. Maybe

if she snuck up on the sucker? Tofu was tricky.

Heh.



     "Interfere Amazon and husband mean death." Shan Pu

asserted, producing a matched pair of Goloks. The heavy

Malaysian knives were a gift from her father and she hadn't

had a chance to try them out yet.

So that's were he went!



Ranjit: (m) Strong, intense      [Sikh]

As I recall there's no language called Sikh, I think they

usually speak Panjabi.



Notes on "The Amazon Nation":

I'm assuming the Chinese Amazons are the remnants of a

group of the original Amazons that, according to legend,

were captured in battle and carried of into slavery. On

One could, however, bring up several arguments that the

Chinese Amazons originate from one of the all-female units

of the Tai-Ping rebellion in the mid-19th century.

But unless someone demands it, I won't.

board ship they killed their captors. Unfortunately the

Amazons weren't sailors and couldn't find their way

home. I've changed the legend slightly by assuming that,

for various reasons, they or their descendants

eventually ended up in China. I've used

But how did they end up in Qinghai? It's pretty hard to get

there by boat.

several existing or past  mountain cultures as a

template to build the present day Chinese Amazons. I'm

Most sources I have seen places the original Amazons in Scythia

(north of the Black Sea), making them more likely to be

"horse nomads" than mountain people. Of course, they would

have to adapt when moving to their current location.

also assuming that the Chinese Amazons have a great deal

of adoption from outside the tribe to keep the gene pool

diverse. Further I'm assuming that names are not=20

necessarily reflective of racial characteristics. For

instance, Aziza had an Arabic name, due to familial

relationships, but was more nordic in type. ^_^

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King Pyrrhus: Hey! What's with all these non-Japanese

reference's. It's not likely that Nabiki would know

about an obscure fight between the Greeks and Romans.=20

It's not that obscure.

Possibly true. And you _could_ have used something

like Hideyoshi's Korean campaign that destroyed Korea

as a nation, left China ripe for=20

conquest my the Manchu and dealt Hideyoshi's government

a mortal blow economically and politically. However,

since my readers are mostly English speaking I thought

this a more easily understandable reference.=20

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founding-buster-cluck:: a situation that's _really_

messed up. (I understand the armed services use a _very_

rude expression that sounds similar  ^_^)

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End Author Notes

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"The next time someone hands you an exploding ham, I'm

going to pass the mustard."

Jack Deth, Trancers II

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(Now if I can just figure out how to use this line in a

fanfic.)

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