> >had to contact . . . "Who?  Ayami-san is dead, and the 'Boss' can't be in
 > >good shape."

 ... I don't rememebr that... I'd better go back and reread previous

chapters, looks like.

Hiroko Ayami?  Nabiki's reaction to her death?

D'oh! I always read her name as someone else - either 'Horaki' or 
'Ayanami' depending on which you use. Of course *that* makes sense.

 > >      She discovered she was running now.  She'd never been so scared in
her

 >life . . . just from that . . . thing . . . looking at her.

"Kensuke-san!

 >He's the military expert, he'll know what to do, he's in Tokyo!"
 >      She ran for the post office and the long-distance line there, to

make

 >the call to Tokyo.

 (singing) Who ya gonna call? (ala Ghostbusters)

Who ya gonna call Ken-su-ke!  That actually works, frightening isn't it.
Would Nabiki have seen the film, would Asuka or Jeff?  Would Ranma have seen
it?

Remember... He's ready to believe you!

 > >. or even Ritsuko.  No, I'm some kind of monster, for thinking ill of the

 >dead, for missing them so desperately, after all, I'll supposedly meet

them

 >again, after I die.  But I guess I'm the only one silly enough to think
 >like that.  Right?"
 >      Nabiki smiled, laid her head on his shoulder, putting her arms

around

 >him.  He didn't seem to mind she was soaking his shirt.  "Thank you."

 Arr, nice save, there!

"It took you long enough!" Nabiki shouted, "I've been sitting here getting
all pruny!"
"That isn't pruny, that's the Innsmouth Look."
"What?!"

Ba dum ching!

 > Wow, now I know this is set in 1947! He knows what a 78 is! He'd probably
even recognise a gramophone, and know what to do with it if he couldn't find
an electric plug.

Pull out a book, what else.  Now if you could convince him not to stick your
floppies to the refrigerator with magnets.

BZZZT! I'm sorry, the correct answer is "If your gramophone does not 
have an electric cord, look for the handle to wind it's clockwork." 
Thanks for playing!

 > >while ago, all he remembered was the grave, and how cold his father had

 >been.  That he didn't care that mother was dead.  Now that he'd seen

Nabiki

 >draw into herself, try to wall off the rest of the world, he understood.
 >His father had done the same thing.  Only he didn't have Rei outside with

a

 >battering ram, Shinji thought, Until now.

 Ew, bad mental image here, not that it's any of your fault. I haven't even

been reading any lemons lately, where'd that come from? For just a tiny
sample,,, Extreme close-up of Rei's face, wearing a patent leather domino
mask but otherwise typically impassive as she softly intones, "You may only
call me 'Queen.'"

Yes, Your Majesty, I'll get the ice cream and the emu feathers.
You write it, I'll probably read it.  Don't worry, Rei isn't quite as
oblivious as it would seem.

Not me, I detest the canon too much to go trough it for reference 
material. Of course, there's not that much background research needed 
for a PWP, but I'm allergic to things that just happen without a 
character-based reason.

 > >      They began searching for and stacking pieces of the Doctor that the

 >attack had scattered around the abandoned office.  The savagery of the
 >attack had stunned Ritsuko, she knew she could eventually recover from

it,

 >but being dismembered this way brought back too many terrible memories.
 >Memories she had hoped to never revisit.

 I agree, the Crash Test Dummies show really *was* that bad.

Wait for Chapter 31.

What, are you going to bring in Skysurfer Strike Force references, or 
something? That's about the only thing I can think of worse still 
than CTD, without verging into Bannas in Pajamas/Teletubbies/Barney 
territory, or blowing through the far side of awful to 'so bad it's 
funny' like _Plan Nine From Outer Space_ or _The 10,000 Fingers of 
Dr. Treblidarius_

 > >      She followed him into the locker room.

 >      "By the way, Doc.  Krazny - zamok, Dr. Aka - gi, did you have to be
 >_that_ obvious.  I thought my puns were bad."

 I'm not up enough on my Mythos (well, on Cthulhu's Mysthos, I'm well

informed about the Drogn Mythos) to recognise this. Could you clarify?

Akagi (Japanese)- Red Castle   Krazny (Russian) - red  zamok (Russian) -
castle  See note on your sisters at the top.

Maybe if I go back and reread ch20...

 > >      Shinji ran.  Gendo wasn't far behind him.  It was very like the
last

 >time they had visited his wife's grave, except this time it was something
 >else that had driven them away.  Gendo quietly hoped the parallels
 >continued, and he hoped Rei was in Unit 00 when she found them.
 >      Neither expected this moment of togetherness.  Gendo was finally

able

 That's right, the family that flees together, be's together! Or something.

Umm... 'runs together, comes together?' No, that could give the wrong
impression.

It certainly would . . . no, that gives the wrong impression too.

The family that am-scrays together, can stay together?

 > >immaterial.  He'd lost the bet, that worried him, but he had put it aside

 >and was starting to enjoy himself.

 Sufficient unto the kissing is the evil thereof?

He tries to kiss Asuka, he's going to find out about all the places he can
get hit that were never targetted in the original series.

Somehow, I see Ranma reactint with all the "ick" to the notion of 
kissing Asuka as he does to the notion of kissing a guy. But their 
bet was that if he lost, he'd kiss Jeff as Ranko, right? So if he' 
not worrying about losing the bet right now, that means he's not 
thinking about the kissing thing until it becomes a more immediate 
issue. Then again, given the cat-nip Ranko gives him elsewhere this 
chapter, maybe that wouldn't be such a  problem after all. A cat 
doing that is basically saying 'Hey, wanna do the nasty?' so whether 
he admits it even to himself or not, there's obviously something 
there - for all Ranma likes to think of them as seperate from 
*him*self it's not really true.

 > Hasn't he got a Magical Mystery Gun like the others, anyway? I thought
those came when called, like a good magic weapon should do.

He hasn't asked for the swords back, they're still locked up.  Besides, he
can't hit a barn from the inside with a gun.

Ah, that's right. Well, maybe this'll larn 'im one.

 > >      "Do you suggest we make a deal?" Fuyutsuki asked, smiling, after
the

 >door was closed.
 >      "Yes, he either leaves us alone, or we'll send a recording of the
 >pilots' interviews to R'lyeh, Carcosa, and Kadath."  Gendo sat behind his
 >desk, steepling his fingers to hide his smile.

 So I guess Gendo isn't shooting bitchin' curl on the side, then. Oh well.

Unlikely, not in this reality.  Or it's all a ploy to delude Fuyutsuki.

Awww. But can't you just see it? Gendo wearing a pair of swim trunks 
and his gloves, toes curling tightly to the sides of his 
banana-yellow 'board, sunlight glinting ominously from the lenses of 
his (darkly tinted) glasses as he hangs ten down a gnarly tube?

snarky remarks were inserted as I thought of them, which was the point,
after all. With that in mind, I'll leave you with a song and dance routine.

 Oh, it's, springtime, for Gendo, and Fuyutsuki! Winter, for SEELE, and

Keele!

 ... what?

I didn't say anything, it's the BIG guy with the tentacles who wants to talk
to you.

Cthulie? Hey, good to see ya, Great Old Buddy! We haven't hung out 
since right after the divorce, dude. Bitch's still trying to get the 
other half of your cultists, I heard. I know this great place we can 
go and catch up, they have 100-year Infusion of Dragonroot that'll 
curl your ancillary tentacles.

- CD

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