On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Neil Reynolds wrote:

  An odd splash from the carp pond caught everyone's attention. Odd because
no-one usually entered the carp pond unless they were both Jusenkyo cursed and
the recipient of violent transportation. Since Akane and Ranma were sitting
relatively quietly, everyone wondered why Shampoo might want Mouse to land at
the Tendo's (Shampoo always had had enough control to choose her destinations
pretty well).

	This is contradicted by the later indications that Ryouga hasn't 
shown up yet.

  Neil: We're near the beginning. Akane hitting Ranma will remain constant.
Kuno will remain constant. More violent people will arrive shortly. My life
expectancy has dropped very low, and I'm trapped in one of the worst cliches
in fan-fiction.

	Heh.

foe at a given moment. Any disagreement will polarize all parties briefly.
Alliances change in a moment. Only you, Kasumi, and Dr. Tofu are exempt. Soon
we'll be up to our arms with people who can't say `I love you', but have no
trouble with `Prepare to die!'. This is one of the reasons I'm so desperate to
achieve exempt status.

	I'll bet.

  Neil: An old classmate of Ranma's named Hibiki Ryouga. You'll have about a
weeks warning before you have to deal with him. He'll drop by, leave for a
week, and then you'll meet him. Describing him would take a while, and I'd
have to think about what I should and shouldn't say first.

	Indeed.  Neil tends to be a bit long-winded.  See if you can 
break it up a bit more, with Nabiki taking a slightly more active 
questioning role.

SKJAM!
(who has decided to hold off on his "SKJAM! visits the Ranmaverse" story 
for a loong while...)