At 18.20 17.10.1997 -0400, you wrote:

Jussi Nikander wrote:

And about Ranma's hightened abilities that everybody's discussing about:
what if the girl who drowned in the nyannichuan wasn't a normal human and
Ranma got her abilities when she fell in?

If that's true, how do we explain Ryouga's? Was the pig
extraordinarily powerful too? ^_^

Why not? It's not like P-chan's a normal piglet. 

So, there's no reason why some super-powered alien
girl/demigod/demon-god/living weapon/
etcetcetc couldn't have drowned there. ^_^

"Oh, you fall in spring of drowned super-powered alien
girl/demigod/demon-god/living weapon/etcetcetc!!!"

"AHHHHHH!!!"

Followed by a <KABOOM> followed by the destruction of the valley of
Jusenkyou. ^_^
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