Benjamin Goldberg wrote:

Kyhdin@aol.com wrote:

Ever since that damned Jusenkyoin had smacked him with that damn
virus, Saotome had spent half his life as a woman and as he did now
whenever he thought about them, took a moment to curse the entire
genomancers guild.

Given that it's a geno*mancer*'s guild, which sounds like it means
genetic magic, why is his gender-changing caused by a virus, rather than
a spell?  Not to mention, a mere virus can't add and remove body weight;
that would have to be done by magic.

Genomancer as in technomancer, perhaps: it's technically all science,
but the technology is, as the sayiing goes, sufficiently advanced.  At
least from enough peoples' views to let the term catch on as slang.  As
to plus or minus body weight, get/lose the mass from water vapor and
other things in the air nearby.

Very interesting, fun fic, which I'd like to see continued.

Ditto, so long as it isn't a mere retelling of The Three Musketeers.

Some silly questions...

Why you don't set it in a culture where real horses would be used? 
After all, there is magic (I think), which *usually* implies a medival
level of technology.

Again, technomancers.  A high-tech version allows the Church to be a
latter day Big Brother (among other possible touches: the all seeing eye
on its holy symbols are usually wireless cameras hooked into an AI
housed at the local church, the sole duty of which is to watch through
all the eyes and alert the higher-ups of significant events) or similar
nasty, with perhaps the real government fighting for the people it
represents.

Ranma's "Horse" vehicle isn't described, except to say that it makes a
roaring sound when moving at high speeds, and kicks up leaves.  What
kind of machine is it?  It could be something as boring as a motorcycle,
or as cool as a Star Wars speeder bike.

One gets the impression that, to residents of the Star Wars universe,
speeder bikes are as boring as motorcycles are to us, though a
motorcycle would be as exotic (if antique) to them as a speeder bike is
exotic to us.

Where's Ryo-oki?  Are they not partners in this fic?  As cool a person
as Ryoko is, it would be much more plausible for Ranma to get into a
formal duel with <...>; Ryoko would want to fight then and there, and
not put it off for a specific scheduled time.  (I was going to suggest
Ayeka, but she *is* after all a princess, and doesn't get into duels...
maybe Nagi?)

Ayeka would get into duels if she thought she could win.  Other Juraian
nobility certainly had no problem with duels.  And certainly she was not
afraid to duel Ryoko, over and over and over again.  That said, time
with Tenchi did seem to teach Ryoko some things about honor.  As to
Ryo-ohki, well, who says Ryoko's horse didn't have a name?


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