In message <Pine.A32.3.91.951022213927.50892A-100000@core.bard.edu>, Roy Rim writes:

Her 'power' if you will, does not extend beyond her body, even trying a
swing with her hammer would be worthless unless she connected with the
hand holding the mallet. Besides, her mallet never appears in wliia, it is
more 'true life' and some purely anime stuff has been scrapped.

	oh, didn't know she had to catch it with her hands!!  But that 
doesn't make sense either.  What's the difference between your hands or 
your arm?

He said that it was easier to lock with her hands, though she didn't actually
have to be touching it at all.

It doesn't happen unless she wants it to, like when she is really mad.. and
even then she doesn't have to use it. The heating is admitedly the more
deadly of the two, because she could burn you just for a touch, but she
doesn't think of this very often.

	now wait, being mad is concentrating?

I think "focused" would be a better word for it.  :)

	Still can't accept but that's my own opinion.  Maybe u should at 
least considering taking out some of those powers?  I mean, I'm not the 
only one who suggested it, but go ahead, by all means, it probably works.

I don't think that the powers necessarily need to be removed, though I may not
have made that quite clear.  I just think that in the context of the other Ranma
characters that her powers seem a little strong/unrestricted, mostly due to a
lack of definition that I've seen.  Most of the points I've brought up were
addressed quite nicely, though some of the powers do still seem a little vague.
(The spirit wave motion still seems unclear to me, does it imbue the object with
more energy?)

Just some more questions about the locking power:  Does this take into account that
the earth itself is moving?  (ie If you lock an object relative to the universe
it would disappear as the earth moves/rotates at something like 1000 mph.)  And
does it take as much effort to *keep* something locked as it does in the first
place?

	-DaR
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