>>IOU.
>You speak to the Double Dean, you know -- of the College of Comparative Irrelevancy and the College of the Creative and Destructive Arts, the sole being tasked with the preservation of that terrible artifact of theological topology, J. Halvah's project. (Yes, and I was there when it was first switched on, making me a J. Halvah's Witness...) In other words, I was one of the original online players back in the 1980s -- you can find my name on a dorm on the campus map in the book. So I'm very familiar with this setting. And I'm surprised I never thought of it. There are Definite Possibilities there...
We bow in awe.
>>(A friend and I are sending Ranma there on a moopsball scholarship. He thinks he's going to get away from the weirdness in his life. Muaha.)
>Ranma's joining the Team? Oh. Dear. Gods.
(WARNING! MASSIVE BLATANT PLUG APPROACHING!)
With me in the studio today is my coauthor and partner in crime, Philip "Ran Nomine: Hell or Hot Water" DesJardins.
Having read Cohn's -Rules of Moopsball-, it seems to us that this is -not- a game to be dominated by the brainless slabs of muscle described in the sourcebook... sure, you need mucho endurance, but speed, brains, and adaptability are the keys to victory.
So: for the last few years, other colleges (and high schools--the Intereverywhere Moopsball League is heavy on open-door policy) have been dominating, and IOU's sports revenues have gone through the floor.
The ArchDean is Not Happy. ...He's the one true -Unseen- Dean, back after twenty years in a cave with some suggestions for reforming The Team around a certain young martial artist of his acquaintance.
Of course, where Ranma goes, everyone else follows... so better to have them all at IOU -officially-.
This is sort of a cross between a "standard" Ranma-continuation, generic weird-college life, and generic sports manga. Ranma winds up really -liking- moopsball (part of that may have to do with the fact that Anything Goes was originally a style inspired BY Moopsball, so it doesn't take long for Ranma to see applications in one for the other, and vice-versa), and comes into conflict with the Team's captain--a certain werewolf, now senior and embittered over the demise of his playing style. Can Ranma become a star player -and- a leader worthy of becoming the new captain? Can he lead the Team (for this fic's purposes the IOU Fnord) to victory over such rivals as the Nekomi Vikings, the Toudai Turtles/Meteors (their team's name changes depending on whether the Hinata or Tomobiki faction is dominant this week), the Saito High Poltergeists, the CLAMP School Bishounen, the Floristica Demongods, and the Ohtori Academy Phoenix? (BIG story planned for that last one...just who is East of the Sun/West of the Moon, and why does Akio fear it? And what has it done to the Dueling Arena?)
Of course, most of the other cast members have been... coerced... into joining the Team as well. But they've got other majors...
-Akane learns to appreciate her unique skills in Weird Science and Culinary Studies. ("As God is my witness, I will find a way to ruin curry!")
-Konatsu is taking Advanced Ninja Studies under Space Ninja Professor Baltan. And engaging in a feud with...
-Tsubasa, studying Mecha Theory (A nod to RpM for a truly wonderful idea). This of course leads to headaches for...
-Ukyou, who after a long soul-searching period trying to find a proper major has settled on Food Magic (Before that it was Housemaking, which didn't last long; before that Applied Theology, which resulted in a cult being started in her name (As close to self-insertion as this series will get); before that was a misunderstanding as to precisely what WSaCS WAS). And discovers that she is the world's only cooking Archmage (In GURPS terms, single-college (food) magery at level 5. Don't Ask.)
-Ryouga, who's actually been attending for a year or so now. What? The man has a life.
-Shampoo, who is studying political science. "Shampoo want become great warlord. Lead mighty Amazon armies into the plains and conquer stupid chinese. Bring enlightenment to mainland Asia."
-Cologne resumes her duties as Dean of Ancient Chinese Secrets (and Misanthropology).
-Gosunkugi figuring out that he's just not cut out for magic, leading him to studies in Theoretical Thaumatology. And some of the largest cost-overrun experiments that the University has ever seen.
-Kasumi in C.T.H.U.L.H.U., studying Temporal Housekeeping. When she's through with the course of history, the Tendou dojo will never have NEEDED repairs.
-Nabiki... we're not sure what she's taking. No one is. Fear.
-Kodachi, almost alone amongst the Fiancee Brigade in that she's still got her eye on Ranma, and plans to use Botany to get him. ("Go, my army of Dryads!")
All of which will, after four years of increasing insanity, culminate in the only way it could end...
Absolute. Wedding. Apocalypse.
(Blatant Plug ends. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Walk discussion.)
Phillip DesJardins, Monkeys With Typewriters Fanfiction Productions ("More bananas! Stat!")
Sam Ashley, Evil Midnight Lurker (Bad is good baby! Down with Crystal Tokyo!)
>You speak to the Double Dean, you know -- of the College of Comparative Irrelevancy and the College of the Creative and Destructive Arts, the sole being tasked with the preservation of that terrible artifact of theological topology, J. Halvah's project. (Yes, and I was there when it was first switched on, making me a J. Halvah's Witness...) In other words, I was one of the original online players back in the 1980s -- you can find my name on a dorm on the campus map in the book. So I'm very familiar with this setting. And I'm surprised I never thought of it. There are Definite Possibilities there...
We bow in awe.
>>(A friend and I are sending Ranma there on a moopsball scholarship. He thinks he's going to get away from the weirdness in his life. Muaha.)
>Ranma's joining the Team? Oh. Dear. Gods.
(WARNING! MASSIVE BLATANT PLUG APPROACHING!)
With me in the studio today is my coauthor and partner in crime, Philip "Ran Nomine: Hell or Hot Water" DesJardins.
Having read Cohn's -Rules of Moopsball-, it seems to us that this is -not- a game to be dominated by the brainless slabs of muscle described in the sourcebook... sure, you need mucho endurance, but speed, brains, and adaptability are the keys to victory.
So: for the last few years, other colleges (and high schools--the Intereverywhere Moopsball League is heavy on open-door policy) have been dominating, and IOU's sports revenues have gone through the floor.
The ArchDean is Not Happy. ...He's the one true -Unseen- Dean, back after twenty years in a cave with some suggestions for reforming The Team around a certain young martial artist of his acquaintance.
Of course, where Ranma goes, everyone else follows... so better to have them all at IOU -officially-.
This is sort of a cross between a "standard" Ranma-continuation, generic weird-college life, and generic sports manga. Ranma winds up really -liking- moopsball (part of that may have to do with the fact that Anything Goes was originally a style inspired BY Moopsball, so it doesn't take long for Ranma to see applications in one for the other, and vice-versa), and comes into conflict with the Team's captain--a certain werewolf, now senior and embittered over the demise of his playing style. Can Ranma become a star player -and- a leader worthy of becoming the new captain? Can he lead the Team (for this fic's purposes the IOU Fnord) to victory over such rivals as the Nekomi Vikings, the Toudai Turtles/Meteors (their team's name changes depending on whether the Hinata or Tomobiki faction is dominant this week), the Saito High Poltergeists, the CLAMP School Bishounen, the Floristica Demongods, and the Ohtori Academy Phoenix? (BIG story planned for that last one...just who is East of the Sun/West of the Moon, and why does Akio fear it? And what has it done to the Dueling Arena?)
Of course, most of the other cast members have been... coerced... into joining the Team as well. But they've got other majors...
-Akane learns to appreciate her unique skills in Weird Science and Culinary Studies. ("As God is my witness, I will find a way to ruin curry!")
-Konatsu is taking Advanced Ninja Studies under Space Ninja Professor Baltan. And engaging in a feud with...
-Tsubasa, studying Mecha Theory (A nod to RpM for a truly wonderful idea). This of course leads to headaches for...
-Ukyou, who after a long soul-searching period trying to find a proper major has settled on Food Magic (Before that it was Housemaking, which didn't last long; before that Applied Theology, which resulted in a cult being started in her name (As close to self-insertion as this series will get); before that was a misunderstanding as to precisely what WSaCS WAS). And discovers that she is the world's only cooking Archmage (In GURPS terms, single-college (food) magery at level 5. Don't Ask.)
-Ryouga, who's actually been attending for a year or so now. What? The man has a life.
-Shampoo, who is studying political science. "Shampoo want become great warlord. Lead mighty Amazon armies into the plains and conquer stupid chinese. Bring enlightenment to mainland Asia."
-Cologne resumes her duties as Dean of Ancient Chinese Secrets (and Misanthropology).
-Gosunkugi figuring out that he's just not cut out for magic, leading him to studies in Theoretical Thaumatology. And some of the largest cost-overrun experiments that the University has ever seen.
-Kasumi in C.T.H.U.L.H.U., studying Temporal Housekeeping. When she's through with the course of history, the Tendou dojo will never have NEEDED repairs.
-Nabiki... we're not sure what she's taking. No one is. Fear.
-Kodachi, almost alone amongst the Fiancee Brigade in that she's still got her eye on Ranma, and plans to use Botany to get him. ("Go, my army of Dryads!")
All of which will, after four years of increasing insanity, culminate in the only way it could end...
Absolute. Wedding. Apocalypse.
(Blatant Plug ends. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Walk discussion.)
Phillip DesJardins, Monkeys With Typewriters Fanfiction Productions ("More bananas! Stat!")
Sam Ashley, Evil Midnight Lurker (Bad is good baby! Down with Crystal Tokyo!)