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Converging Series:  a guide to the series
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fanfics and series crossed over in ACT II
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1) What is Converging Series?

   A little less than a year ago, the question was put out:  why not have
a fanfic that crossed over with not just other series, but other fanfics?
And so, a few authors got together and did a little plotting....

2) What shows/stories has Converging Series crossed into?

*SPOILERS*

-Ranma 1/2
-Sailor Moon
-Bubblegum Crisis
-Guyver
-Akira
-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
-Gilligan's Island

3) What fanfics are crossed into in ACT I?

   As of ACT II

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE: by Rod M.
   The unexpected happens abruptly and suddenly: Akane and Ranma make
   their engagement official, and have apparently become an official
   couple.  The usual fury is raised at first, then things settle down.
   ... and then odd things start happening to Ryouga, like getting engaged
   to Shampoo, having Kodachi after him, confronting a bitter rival from
   his past, and now Ukyou's getting a little too violent with that
   spatula of hers... it seems Ryouga's situation is getting somewhat
   familiar with a certain someone else's...
WHERE TO FIND IT
   e-mail: rpm39788@bayou.uh.edu
   Website: (coming soon)
   ftp: (coming soon)

GUYVERRYOUGA: by Mark Latus
   Ryouga's life is changed forever when he stumbles upon a small disk
   of some sort, turning him into a bio-armored fighting machine known
   as 'Guyver'.  Unfortunately, the Chronos organization will do anything
   to get the armor from him.  Anything.
WHERE TO FIND IT
   e-mail:
   website: ?
   ftp: 

   And from ACT I

MINISTRY OF CONFUSION: by Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne
  In a futuristic world where Japan is run by a massive system of
  bureaucracies, Ranma Saotome find himself part of conspiracies
  affecting himself, his family, his friends, and the government.  The
  mail order clone his father bought isn't helping much either (calling
  herself Akane Tendo, and being overly violent for a clone...)
WHERE TO FIND IT
  e-mail:
  website: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~twoflowr/ministry.htm
  ftp: ftp.cs.ubc.ca under pub/archive/anime-fan-works/
                           Ranma/ranma.ministry.confusion.gz
  
  
DESCENTS AND INVERSIONS: by Ross McKenzie (rmckenzi@euclid.ucsd.edu)
  A story of the many children of Ranma, from multiple realities.  In a
  way, Converging Series is a sequel to it, since it follows the
  adventures of one of the main heroes.
WHERE TO FIND IT
  e-mail: descents@ranma.net
  website:
  ftp: 

RANMA NIBUNNOICHI: by Caroline Ann Seawright
(kunoichi@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au)
  About how Ranma and Akane finally become a couple, and several other
  Nerimites that fall for each other as well.  Lemon flavored series.
WHERE TO FIND IT
  e-mail: wedding@ranma.net, univ@ranma.net, and fmn@ranma.net (three
          seperate parts).
  website: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~kunoichi
  ftp:

RANMA 2096: by Christopher Wilmore (4cw6@qlink.queensu.ca)
  100 years after Ranma dies an unexpected and early death, his spirit
  is re-awakened.  He encounters ghosts of his past, the descendents
  of old friends and enemies, and how they've dramatically changed Japan
  in the years since his passing.
WHERE TO FIND IT
   e-mail:
   website: http://qlink.queensu.ca/~4cw6/
   ftp:

THE WAY THINGS ARE (beta version, title pending): by Kevin Eav
   A wandering amnesiac is sent by the Chinese Amazons to Nerima, to ask
   Cologne for aid against a mysterious group hunting after him, and
   his own, 'programmed' fighting abilities that seem to take over him
   sometimes.
WHERE TO FIND IT
   e-mail: twta@ranma.net
   website: http://holly.colostate.edu/~geist/twta.txt
   ftp:

And of course, more to come in act 2.  We can't say now.  That'be telling
:p

4) Who are these people?

Ryo Muhoshin: deranged disciple of the Unorthodox Weaponry School of
Martial Arts.  He's decievingly strong, fast, weilds a bladed umbrella,
and just happens to look alot like Gosunkugi.  He's also got an extreme
grudge against Ryouga Hibiki.  From The More Things Change.

Ryo Saotome:  son of Ukyou Kuonji and Ranma Saotome, from Descents and
Inversions.  He's been put through one time crisis already, and handled it
well.  Now, another one....

Miyabi Saotome:  daughter of Ranma and Akane.  Sometimes short-tempered, a
little violent, and trained in martial arts by her father.  From Ranma
Nibunnoichi

Childra Jansen:  college student and historian from 2096.  A friend to
the ghosts of Ranma and Akane, as well as several members of the family
Gosunkugi and Hibiki.  From Ranma 2096.

Reiraku "Ratiko" Hibiki:  college student, frequent traveler.  The
great-grandson of Ryouga Hibiki, and has the distinct Hibiki ability to
travel randomly, whether he likes it or not.  From Ranma 2096

Ishido Takashima:  an amnesiac on the run from a mysterious and unknown
organization.  Ends up in Nerima, where he was told to find Cologne and
ask for her help by the amazons that he met in China.  His story is yet to
be told... in some ways runs parallel to Converging Series, and will be a
sequel to it as well.


4) Is there a Converging Series Homepage?

er... a crappy one.  Gimmie two weeks and it'll be fixed propper.

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