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Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to announce "A Second Bet." Read on to
find out what I mean.
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Great Fox, the Native American god of Chance approached Mimir's well
slowly, looking for a certain God that had a tendancy to frequent it. He was
a large red fox at the current time, about a foot and a half from nose to
tail, and had piercing gray eyes. Finally seeing the God he was looking for,
he approached the well more confidently.
"Toltiir," he called to the black cat, who was currently sunning himself
on the far wall of the well. The feline God of Mischief looked up, homing in
on the voice of an old friend.
"Foxie Loxie!" he exclaimed, rising. Somehow, the fox managed to wince
at the nickname. "Haven't seen you in a while."
"Please don't call me that," Great Fox replied in exasperation. "And
I've been in pretty high demand lately. Most overworked 3,3 God in the
multiverse," he grumbled.
"We just can't get by without you," Toltiir teased, causing Great Fox to
roll his eyes. "You missed my Bet. I was sure that you would at least
enter," he continued, looking sadly at his friend.
"I never got enough time to think of a decent entry," Great Fox replied,
shaking his head. Sighing, he climbed onto the wall of Mimir's well, on the
opposite side of Toltiir. "Have you noticed how much more common planar
crossings and fusions have gotten in the past few years?"
"No, why? You getting a lot of work?" Toltiir asked, watching as his
longtime friend lay down heavily on the well's outer rim.
"Yeah," Great Fox confirmed. "I wouldn't mind it so much if it weren't
for the fact that everything's turning out the same."
"What do you mean?" Toltiir asked.
"Everyone's asking for the same crossings, the same fusions. Of course,
they want accidents out of the picture, so they pull me into things, being
the only God of Chance this side of Olympus," Great Fox explained. "For
example, just in the past few weeks I've had to fuse the Sailor Senshi
baseline with a Ranma divergant five times, all with the exact same result!
Ranma running around in a sailor fuku, Akane leading the negaverse, and
everyone else going nuts."
"Things're getting boring, huh?" Toltiir consoled the fox.
"Worse. Planar diversity is evaporating. With all these parallel
universes and fusions, I have to keep overseeing diversions, just to keep the
older ones in existance," Great Fox complained. "Plus, some outer lines are
being ignored, lines with great potential. If something doesn't happen soon,
there's going to be a real problem. The Yggdrasil is already having trouble
keeping track of the tiny differences in all the parallels."
"Sounds to me like you've been thinking about this for a while," Toltiir
mused.
"Ever since Titania won the Bet," Great Fox admitted.
"And you've got an idea...?" Toltiir prompted. Once again, Great Fox
winced, having been caught.
"I do, but I need your help. I want to run a second Bet," Great Fox told
him.
"Explain," Toltiir said, interested.
"I need to get things different again, but I don't have very much power
of my own. With Mimir's well, I could streach what I have a lot further,"
Great Fox continued.
"Then get permission," Toltiir replied flatly.
"I have it," Great Fox admitted, "conditional upon your assistance. My
plan is too much for me to act upon, even with Mimir's well. I need an Elder
God's assistance, if for nothing more than a power outlet for the less
powerful entries." This caused Toltiir co cock an eyebrow (as much as a cat
can).
"Why in the cosmos would you need me? With the well, even the least
powerful God could make a fusion or a cross," Toltiir asked.
"Umm...," Great Fox started, aware that this was the hardest part of his
plan to sell. "I want to include greater spirits too." At Toltiir's look of
surprise and disapproval, he continued, "Wait a minute! Just think of the
talent pool. We need diversity, right? Well, the best chance we have at
getting it is by allowing more participants in the Bet. Besides, if a God
gets beaten by a greater spirit, how much would that inspire them to do
better?" A long minute of silence followed this proposal.
"And the winner's timeline would be made permanent?" Toltiir asked.
"Yes. One winner for planar fusions, and one for planar crossings,"
Great Fox explained.
"Is that it?" Toltiir asked.
"Pretty much," Great fox answered.
"I'll do it," Toltiir said, "On one condition."
"What?" Great Fox asked.
"I get to call you 'Foxie' until the thing's over," he said, a grin
splitting his feline face. Great Fox, now officially 'Foxie,' sighed. It
was going to be a looong Bet.
***Here We Go!***
Hey all! I, as you probably have noticed from reading the header on this
E-mail, am Flashfyre5. Yes, for those of you who are wondering, this is
another Bet, authorized by Gregg Sharpe. Instead of being for Alt fics, this
is for both Fusions and Crossovers. Great Fox, in that little bit above,
represents my opinions in regards to many recent crossovers and fusions that
have been floating around lately- unoriginal (no offense to the authors).
Now, I'm not asking you to go out and find the weirdest anime in existance,
nor am I completely outlawing the more common ones. I just want to see
diversity. A SM/Ranma crossover with Ranma fighting the Senshi for some
reason would, if developed, be fine. In any case, I hope to get some
interesting responses to this. The winners will be decided with a vote. Oh
well, I'm just gonna give you a list of the rules.
RULES: (In no particular order)
1.) The fic must be new- you cannot submit a fic started or finished before
this announcement.
2.) The fic must either be 'clean' or carry a warning if not. I was going to
outlaw all lemons, but after re-reading Mr. Demaine's "Ranma.05", I have
decided that lemons, if well written, can be among the best works out there.
However, no bondage, violence or especially rape will be tolerated. Any fics
with any of these written in *ahem* detail will immediately be disqualified.
3.) The base reality must be Ranma 1/2. Sorry to all you non Ranma readers
out there. This just gives everyone a constant to gauge things on.
4.) I'm setting a limit of 2 other anime that can be spliced into the fic. A
Ranma/Tenchi cross and a Ranma/Tenchi/DBZ cross would be fine, but not a
Ranma/Tenchi/DBZ/Gundam cross.
5.) The anime that you use must either be uncommonly used or, if commonly
used, must be done in an unusual way. Cookie cutter fics will not win this
one.
6.) Keep the characters in character! Please, it drives me nuts when Ryoga
suddenly becomes Ranma's best buddy, or Ranma and Akane suddenly admit their
undying love for one another.
7.) Entries will be accepted starting May 1, 2001 and will no longer be
accepted after February 28, 2002. That gives you all nine months people.
Use 'em.
8.) Entries MUST be sent to Flashfyre5@aol.com directly. If they are simply
posted to a ML, they WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED ACCEPTED. If you want to enter,
make sure that you send it to me. I'm sorry to be so harsh, but I have no
way of being on all the MLs, and I don't want someone complaining to me
because they posted to a ML that I do not subscribe to.
9.) Rewrites will be accepted, providing that at least 80% of the fic is
new/rewritten.
10.)You may enter as many times as you like. You must simply write a fic for
each entry. Base ideas will not be accepted.
11.) Please head all entries with [2ndBet][Fusion/Crossover]__________(name
of fic). This is just so that I can tell which category to list your fic
under.
12.) I will send you a reply confirming that I have recieved your fanfic. If
you do not recieve a reply, double-check with me to make sure that I did
actually get it.
VOTING:
1.) Within the first week of March, an e-mail with all the fanfics attached
in text format will be posted to all the fanfic MLs that I can.
2.) Once posted, any and all who read them will be permitted to vote for
their favorites. Each person may chose a total of four favorites, two of
them crossovers and two of them fusions. The favorite for each will be
awarded two points, and the second favorite one point.
3.) If you wrote a fic, you are not permitted to vote for it, and I will
double check.
4.) When voting, please base your vote roughly 50% on originality and 50% on
conventions, such as characterization, plot, action, and the other things
that make up a good fanfic.
5.) Voting will begin on the first (1st) of March and will end on the
thirty-first (31st) of March. I may give you a few days leeway, depending on
how close a count it is.
6.) As soon as all votes are tallied, the winners will be announced. There
will be one winner for crossovers, one for fusions, and one overall winner.
This overall winner may be either a cross or a fusion, but will not occupy
the winner's slot for the genre it came from.
7.) As with the fic entries, all votes must be sent to Flashfyre5@aol.com,
for the same reasons as were mentioned above.
I hope that this answered any questions that you all have. If not, ask
me at Flashfyre5@aol.com. Remember, all entries/votes must be sent directly
to me. In any case, this is just the beginning- forward this to anybody that
you think might be interested in participating. I'd like a big turnout, and
I think that everybody else would enjoy it too. Well, that's all I have to
say for now. To all of you, I issue a challenge! Can you write the best
Ranma 1/2 crossover or fusion? Find out!
Flashfyre5@aol.com
~Flash
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