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From: 	Doug Murphy[SMTP:Draxon-X@msn.com]
Sent: 	Friday, August 23, 1996 12:34 AM
To: 	Fanfiction Mailing List
Subject: 	[FFML] Quick info needed

Here are a bunch of miscellaneous questions I have been saving up for a while, 
I intend to use the data I gather for future fanfics, lets begin...

1. All about Chi. I've heard that being able to focus chi into a projectile 
type attack depends on heavy martial arts training. Just what is Chi? How can 
someone gain the ability to use it? And what types of attacks (or defenses) 
can be created with it?

	Of course,  you can't really train enough to throw a blast.. but that's how it is in the fictional world.  Anyway, Chi is the mysterious life force that is inside you.  It is human energy.  Chi can be used for strenght and for healing.  Acupunture is based on your mederians of chi.  Chi is stored somewhere sligtly below your navel.  Now, to channel that chi you do certian excersies.  Chi si mysterious, and I don't know many things about it.

2. Ki. I know little about Chi but Ki  know nothing of. I have seen it in a 
few fanfics.  Same basic questions arising. What is ki and how can characters 
gain the power to use it.

	Ki, is the same thing as Chi.  Chi is the Chinese word for it, and ki is the Japanese and the Korean word for it.

3. Special attacks in Ranma. I know enough about the characters in Ranma to 
try at a fic. I shouldn't have any problems with that, but I know a (drum roll 
please) total of 3 attacks from the Ranma-verse. Shadow Fog, Shishi Hakoadon, 
and Happo Fireburst (Yes I know I spelled them wrong.) Some Ranma crazed fan 
please update me. I need the name of some attacks, who uses it, and a short 
description of what it does.

	Moko Takabisa(sp?)  it's Ranma's ki blast using confidence.
	Breaking point attack used by Ryouga to shatter inanimate objects striking a certain point on that object.
	Ultimate Shishihokodan:  A pillar of chi is balsted upwards from Ryouga, and it comes back down, on Ryouga, sourrounding him a certian radius.
	Taka Zume Ken:  Mousse's attack.  Mousse jumps in the air, then flys down to his opponent with eagle claws sticking out of his shoe.
	Hiryu Shoten Ha:  Ranma's dragon uppercut that brings a tornado from the punch.
	Tenshin Amaguri Ken:  Rapid punches by Ranma.  So fast you can't see them. Sometimes, it appears as one punch, which it's actually hundreds.
	Happo 5 yen Satsu:  Hinako Ninomiya's chi sucking tech.  It sucks your fighting energy away. and leave you almost life less.
	Happo 50 yen Satsu:  Same thing as the 5 yen, but it can suck even when your standing still.
	Happo 5 yen return:  The energy Hinako absorbed is realsed into a blast.

4. Crossover magical abilities. Say a hardened black belt in some form of the 
martial arts from our universe gets somehow sent somewhere where magic 
exists... Does this person suddenly gain great power because he is a skilled 
martial artist, or is he doomed to never have the joy of throwing fireballs?

with magic, you can increase chi level and tech level so great, yeah, you can throw fire balls.

Thanks for reading this. I'll be starting a Ranma fic in a few weeks (enough 
time for me to see a few more episodes and read fics) and if I have tons of 
cool stuff in it it's because a cool person replied and told me everything I 
need to know ;)

Later

Can't wait.

Draxon-X@msn.com