On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, David Johnston wrote:

"What did they get?!" Urd asked, worried about what sort of
thing could hack into the system... and what it could do with the
information it could find in Yggdrasil.

        The eldest goddess checked. "Just the wish protocols."

        Urd blinked. "Well, it's no big deal, then..."

       "How is it 'no big deal?!'" Sklud called up from the floor.

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Urd is the eldest goddess.  "Skuld"

Ah! I was not aware of that.

I had gotten the idea that Belldandy was the eldest...

And... Oh, sorry. When I read "Skuld," it just registered as "Sklud" in my
mind...

You are aware, of course that a 500K chapter is in fact 250 to 280 page 
novel?

550k, actually. ^_^

And, I'd have split it up into smaller chapters and posted those, but I
had absolutely no desire to use a cop-out 'cliffhanger' 'To Be
Continued...' sort of thing.

Those, IMHO, should be reserved for dramatic usage only. If I paint myself
into a corner, and not be able to come up with anything for a while, I
might just decide to change what the initial stopping point was.

Besides, I was pretty sure that all the plotlines in this piece would only
work as a more or less single unit.

So, the timestream transported Genma back in time to get him to engage 
Ranma to Pluto?  

Perhaps...

But sometimes, things... just kinda... happen.

Murphy isn't a law here.

It's a commandment. ^_^

>From Chapter 2

"Juraian" sounds better to me.  

Yes... It does sound somewhat better than 'Jurian.'

Maybe I should change that... ^_^

>From Chapter 3

Give him credit.  It may be a spoof, but he still manages to give an 
accurate and vivid description of Senshi attacks, including the ones 
which were never shown in the DIC series...

Well, the reason why this story isn't tagged as a [parody] or [spoof] is
that it may or may not be comical to some or many different readers... and
if I tried too hard to make it funny, it may just end up as 'trying to'
and not actually 'making' it funny...

This was very good.  Plot and comedy have both strengthened over
time in this series and he's cribbing a bit less from Monty Python,
now, or perhaps I should say putting more non-Monty Python material
in.

Thanks! I spent an _awful_ lot of time on it.

I discussed the plot with my prereaders to help strengthen it and decide
where I actually wanted to take this thing. The plot is infinitely more
planned out for this part than, say, chapter eight.

And... Yes, a bit less Monty Python, proportionally... though I'm still
trying see where I can fit in a few more references for the next part. ^_^

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-Benjamin A Oliver
boliver@U.Arizona.EDU

	 "We are Bored. You will entertain us.
	  We will add your stand-up and slapstick comedy to our own.
	  Your humor will adapt to make us laugh.
	  Resistance is futile."