On Sun, 31 Mar 1996 17:25:50 -0500 Harvey Torrance Griffin said:

	Well done story NightElf, but I do have a few plot related
questions though....
	I don't know why nobody brought this up when they read the earlier
draft, but from the sound of it Ranma had everybody left in Herb's palace
after the initial assault put to the sword (more than a little harsh at
the very least, especially in light of what happened to Herb).
	Herb's treatment is harder to judge; on one hand they _did_ strip
him of everything he remotely valued, but some would regard a new identity
to be a mild punishment for 4 counts of manslaughter (at least).  On top
of that, what are they gonna do with the kids (they cannot risk keeping
them near Shampoo 2.0 or they _might_ revive unpleasant memories).
	Stupid question: What's going on in Nerima (Soun's just
effectively lost two of his daughters, and I doubt the Kunos are too happy
about Ranma's dissapearance and Akane's death)?

HTG

Thank you.

As for the harsh treatment of the Musk warriors, there are two reasons
for it.  One: Think about the Niichieju code.  Two: Think about what Herb
did to Ranma.

Ranma wanted to see the Musk Dynasty warriors wiped off the face of the
earth.  Usually a warrior of the Musk's calibre will not surrender
unless faced with hopeless odds.  If they were willing to surrender, sure,
they'd be spared (sorta), but would they?     As for Herb, Ranma wanted to
see him _broken_. Not dead, but broken - stripped of all that was
important to him (as Ranma had been so deprived years ago).

As for the people still in Nerima, wait until the fall.  I have an idea
for a side story to this one, where our three heroines go back after an
absence of five years, to find...

1. Kuno calmer, knowing about Ranma, and married (but to who...)
2. Kasumi and Tofu-sensei
3. The dojo in the hands of...

I won't be writing it until the summer, and won't post it until I get
back to school in the fall.

Nightelf
nwl9354@tamvm1.tamu.edu