Hokay, first of all, I'll correct my own mistake. Mousse's name in
Wade-Giles romanization is Mu Ssu. I was looking in the wrong column on
the conversion chart. My fault; hope this doesn't confuse your readers
terribly much. :)
Please refer to punctuation notes in comments for part 1.
Allyn Yonge <ayonge@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Hmmmm . . .?" Mu Sz responded dreamily,
shaking himself out of his favorite fantasy. Well,
second favorite. His favorite involved olive oil,
spandex and the Chinese National Ballet.
It does? Why isn't he constantly bugging *them* to date with him, then?
(Sorry, just my way of saying that I'm tired of seeing people put in
stuff like this just for a cheap laugh. ^_^)
"Oda? Why
do you----" He stopped himself. It was better not to
ask. After all, he couldn't be blamed for something he
knew nothing about.
Ranma, on the other hand, can be and usually is. :)
"He is unmistakable," Mu Sz replied. "Just
look for the fighter with the strongest battle aura."
He hadn't actually lied thought Mu Sz as Ranma
vanished into the night. Oda most certainly would
have strong c'hi. And Saotome _might_ just find Oda
In Wade-Giles, I think that's ch'ih.
"Your loyalty is commendable." Oda
smoothed a wrinkle from his dressing gown. "We
have friends in high places do we not? Friends who
own me favors . . .?"
Well, maybe now, but 'e's working on buyin' 'em 'imself... (own -> owe)
As soon as Juzo had departed Oda settled
himself comfortably in his chair. Steepling his fingers
Oda contemplated the city lights, the bedlam from his
night-club reduced to a faint vibration by several
"Nightclub" is generally one word.
millions of yen worth of sound proofing.
soundproofing.
The old man and the bitch had cheated him.
He'd been counting on the doujou to pay his debts all
those years ago. It was a nice piece of property and
during the huge Japanese real-estate boom had been
worth hundreds of millions. And the two youngest
daughters would have brought a nice piece of change
in Tailand. He'd had a buyer all lined up when . . .a
Thailand. (As if we needed any more reason to dislike this guy... ^_^)
Ranma slid into the steaming water,
shuddering slightly as he always did at the slithering,
twisty feeling of _The Change_; like standing naked
in a barrel of excited eels while someone pushed ice
water through your bones. It didn't hurt . . .exactly.
"Please hurry Ranma, you don't have time for
a soak."
Who said this? Nodoka?
"Heh," Ukyou unsheathed her giant pole-arm.
"Ranma is my fianc?e. You don't think I'm going
fiance (please get rid of non-ascii characters)
Shan P'u frowned at the small electric stove
used to heat the water. Twisting the heat control
back and forth her brow cleared suddenly. "Aaaaa.
Stupid American stove is _ Fahrenheit_" Muttering
under her breath she twisted the dial all the way to
the right. "Next time Shan P'u remember convert
centigrade."
Heh.
"What do you think this is? A costume
party?" Sneering Voice tried to push contemptuously
past Kasumi."
Extra "
Ukyou shuddered as she had a brief vision of
K'e Lwun in a Sailor Fuku.
Urp. Lunch... coming... up....
Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics.html