On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Ken Arromdee wrote:

(Oh, if it seems not to be going anywhere, remember I still have to introduce
a _lot_ of characters, just like the real series.)

	Understood.

    Genma patted Ranma on the back.  "Well, your problem isn't so bad, then."

Should be Soun, I think.

He poured boiling water on Genma.  "Hot water returns you to your normal
form.  Only cold water makes you change to your other form."  He continued.
    Ranma continued.  "I'll marry one of them, but since it doesn't matter
which one, I don't have to tell you right now."  He walked away.  Soun
followed, or would have, except Nabiki just happened to be right in front of
him.  "Oops, sorry dad.  I think I dropped something and I didn't mean to get
in your way."  Kasumi said "Let me help you find it, Nabiki!", managing to
block Genma's path as she crossed the room towards her sister.

	Sensiblke enough....

promise as a supplemental income source, but little as a fiancee for her.

(Nabiki, tjat is, I cut too much...) You might want to have a little more 
Kasumi action in here somewhere...after all it's -2-/3rds :-)
 > 

    "The pig-tailed girl named Saotome Ranma does not wish to date men other
than me!"  Nabiki thought that that _was_ technically right, though incomplete.

	Umm-humm

    *Applause*
    "Therefore, I announce...  that all who wish to date her must defeat her in
combat first!  And even if you disagree, I, the Blue Thunder and rising star of
the Furinkan High Kendo Club, will insure that you follow that request!"
    The applause took longer than before, but finally came anwyay.

	Ranma going to start to hate boys as much as Akane did :-)

    In most towns, the people one could run into on the street included a lot
of salarymen, students, housewives, and others, but very few martial artists.
Certainly, a random search for one was as unlikely to work as a Sailor
Senshi's chance of finding the youma in walking distance.  This section of
Nerima was not, fortunately, most towns; still, the martial artist population
was only slowly beginning to rise, and the pickings were slim.

	Heh.

    Several hours and several miles after the start of his search, Ranma found
a fat man with a top hat and a peculiar beard walking along the street.  He
recognized the man at once, though it had been ten years.  "He's back in town?
Maybe it'll be months before he finds me...  but I can't take the chance.  And
Ucchan might be in danger."  Ranma launched a kick at the man.  A large die
fell on him.  "You lose."

	Whoops.  Ranma needs more training...

will date!"  Nabiki concluded that where Ranma was concerned, she would never
be able to play with Kunou's mind better than he could himself.

	Poor Kunou.  The man cannot catch a break in any world, can he?  
(One of these days, someone will have to do "what if Akane *liked* 
Kunou":-)

SKJAM!