On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, H. Torrance Griffin wrote:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  You are an evil, Evil, EVIL, _EVIL_
person.  You should continue this at least a little farther its
hilarious.

I'm not evil, just a really SICK puppy.
I just might continue this a little bit further.

	You genuinely frighten me.

Unforunately, I missed this fic, but I assume that it means that Ranma
defeated Cologne? Hmm...

Yep, right after Cologne convinced Shampoo to give up her rights to Ranma.

	Major Nit: Last time I checked that particular law applied only to
Joketsuzoku _maidens_.  Even if you ignore the strictest sense of the word
(few matriarchies are _that_ hung up on pre-marital 'purity'), she
probably married some nice boy and had a few kids decades ago at least
which should make her immune from any penalty for loss to outlanders aside
from embarrassment. 

Ok. That's what I thought. >;)
 

	OTOH, aside from well... asthetic consideration, why is Cologne
_such_ a bad catch as a bride?  I would not be suprised if she knew of
some Youth Formula to restore her former beauty with little cost aside
from the respect granted to a venerable elder.

Wouldn't she -already- have done that if she had been able to, though? >;)


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