On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Mousse Lee wrote:

        The conotation in the story is that heroin and lsd are in soft
stuff while alchohol and tobacco are considered some of the hard stuff.  I
don't do any drugs myself, I just used to read about then alot.

  I can't disagree with the connotations. If Kodachi is familiar with
addictive substances, it is perfectly in character for her to regard alchohol
and tobacco as harder drugs. If we start arguing if they ARE harder drugs,
we'll start a spam that'll never end, and never convince anyone, so lets not.
But having Kodachi believe they are harder drugs is perfectly in character.
Personally I believe tobacco is the worst, heroin second, alchohol third, and
lsd fourth, and I don't use any of them. Theobromine in chocolate is my
preferred psychodelic, and Triptophan in turkey and hot milk my favored
depressant. 

  The story itself was great in my opinion, with two faults

1) it looked like a standalone story, but it really required _Why_ to make it
understandable. I don't think it should be made a standalone story, But I
think it should be called chapter 2 of one story

2) While the exchange of dialogue, and the entrance of the characters Ranma
and Ukyou were followable; Following who said what required enough
concentration from the reader that it interfered with the flow of the story.