On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, The Major wrote:

On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Ranma al'Thor <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:

Maybe.  What I'm thinking of is telling the story of the Grail Quest with 
Sailor Mercury drawn into the quest, as she hopes it will have the power 
to help her get home...along the way she'll realize what is going to 
happen...and try to figure out what she can do to avert the tragedy she 
knows may be coming...

Hmmm.... as I recall my Arthurian legends, the Grail quest was launched 
when Camelot was at it's height and was one of the main things that 
weakened it before Lancelot was blinded by love and tore it apart.

Yes.  Roughly one can divide the Arthurian saga into 
Phase 1:  Prologue--Arthur's Birth to the Drawing of the Sword from the 
Stone

Phase 2:  Consolidation--Arthur fights a series of wars to consolidate 
his realm, marries Guenevere and the seeds of future tragedies are laid:  
Birth of Mordred, The Murder of the Innocents, Blood feud between the 
Lothians(Gawaine's Family) and Norgales (Pellinore's family), etc.  This 
phase roughly ends when Arthur conquers Rome and becomes Emperor (for 
what that's worth :))

Phase 3:  Glory--The period of high adventure.  Lancelot, Tristam, 
Lamorak, Palomides, Sagramor, Dodinas, the Lothians, and all the other 
knights have their greatest adventures.  This phase ends with the 
Beginning of the Grail Quest.

Phase 4:  Decline and Fall--After the Grail Quest, many of the best 
knights are dead or gone.  Lancelot and Guenevere get sloppy in their 
love affair, they are discovered, and everything goes to hell in a 
handbasket.  Finally ends with Arthur's death at Camlann.

This story will be set around the Grail Quest, which is the transition 
from Phase 3 to 4.
  

To avert the tragedy would probably require Sailor Mercury to hang around 
and influence things after the quest, either that or for her to find a 
way back afterwards.  Would depend a lot on how close you stuck to the 
legends, and on how much Sailor Mercury can remember about them.

Yeps.  We shall see what we shall see...

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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