In a message dated 97-02-11 00:44:17 EST, you write:

This would tend to imply that the diluted (and therefore, weaker) water
 merely affects you in a more general way (which could also explain why
 merely being splashed, instead of immersed, does not replace your curse,
 but alter it (e.g. Tarou's octopus tentacles)), while the pure, undiluted
 water literally changes you to be an exact match of whatever drowned
 there.

Ah.  Now there's an answer that i would like to get when i need to be
corrected.  If only the rest of the FFML members who responded were as nice.

Changing the subject slightly, has anyone thought about how the springs of 
Jyusenkyo were created?  In a defunct Indiana Jones piece of fanfiction I was 
writing, I had Jyusenkyo as a lost colony of Atlantis (the end of the Fate of 
Atlantis was changed to trap Indy inside with his only hope - a broken colony 
transporter that is marked "Colony Transport - Jyusenkyo").  The springs were 
actually a failed attempt to preserve life; the colony itself was experimenting 
on ways to preserve life.  In the end, the Atlanteans died out, but not after 
several failed experiments with a liquid that could store soul essences and 
transmit them to others, thereby granting immortality for the person who 
drowned there.

The liquid may not have worked properly, but over the years, it escaped its 
containers and seeped to the surface, and into the springs of Jyusenkyo.  As 
people started to drown there, the pools began to retain the soul of those 
drowned, ready to impart them onto the next unlucky victim.



And that was the basic premise I had for that version of Ranma 1/2 history.  
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has a story for the creation of 
Jyusenkyo for the original Ranma 1/2, or any alternate universes they've 
created.

Thanks, and...
   ...ciao!
                               Terence Fergusson
                            -- Stranded in an Anime-free College

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