SKJAM in "Twilight Existence" has discovered an orthangonal vector in
Ranko Space!

For example, let's multiply "Twilight Existence" by Bast's "Ranko 1/2"
to get "Ranko's Twilight Struggle".

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The first time I met Ranma was when his father brought him to the Dojo
and my sisters conspired that I would be the one engaged to him.

It seemed that Ranma had fallen into a cursed spring in China that had
erased all of his memories prior to that point and that he had some sort
of condition that would produce a "fatal shock" if he was ever exposed
to hot water.

It almost was fatal, to Genma, when Ranko found out the truth.

Ranko: "Let me go Akane."

Akane: "That's enough Ranko, you've hurt him enough."

Ranko: "Don't you understand?  He tried to kill me, his only daughter!
    If he had his way, I'd've fallen asleep in that spring and never
    woken up."

Akane: "I know, but I can't let you turn the girl who's my best friend
    and the boy I love into a murderer."

Ranko: "Get it though your head.  I may have been raised as if I was a
    boy, but I was born a girl.  You promised you'd help find a cure for
    the curse, and when we have it Ranma will be no more."

Akane: "Yes, I will."

I still don't know which promise I must keep.

As long as no cure or permanent locking in of the curse is found, I
don't have to choose.

I just wish Ranko and Ranma would get along together instead of pursing
their long twilight struggle of annihilation.  Each claims that in the
end, only one will remain.  I don't think so.  I don't think either will
survive this internal struggle.

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb