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Traveling salesman that sired Ranma, Ryouga, & Tarou?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:07 am
by slickrcbd
I recall a long-abandoned fic on a website that I'm pretty sure is now defunct that had a plot element half-way through the story in which Ranma, Ryouga, and eventually Pantyhose Tarou find out that they are half-brothers. Their father is a traveling salesman with Ryouga's curse and the ability to charm his way into lonely housewives beds. He has a "girl in every port" that are usually housewives.
I think he might have sired some other minor characters such as Hiroshi and Daisuke, but I'm less sure of that.

I can't recall what the story was called or what the main plot was, but I do recall that some of the characters were actually starting to work together and settle their differences. I'm also almost positive it was written by a husband and wife team or something like that that shared a web page. I might be wrong, but it's like it's on the tip of my memory but I just can't recall it.

I'm pretty sure I saved a copy, but without more to go on I can't figure out what to search for. Does any of this ring a bell? I know it wasn't on Fanfiction.net and also that the story MORE than four years old, probably closer to 10.

Re: Traveling salesman that sired Ranma, Ryouga, & Tarou?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:18 am
by Makoto
You're probably thinking of the "Tales of Ranma and Ranko" series (a set of stories), by Jack Staik and Lady Tesser. Their homepage was http://home.earthlink.net/~jstaik1043/otaku.htm. (I don't know if it's still active... I'll check. Edit: Nope.)

I don't know if it's archived anywhere else outside the FFML archives, and maybe the Internet Archive-type sites (haven't checked, really). I know I have some of it (can't remember if I have it all) in my archives, somewhere.

Re: Traveling salesman that sired Ranma, Ryouga, & Tarou?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:15 pm
by Spokavriel
I think it might be safer to look for that story using Archive.org I remember a lemon with similarities and a similar title that had Ranko intimate with Ryouga.

Re: Traveling salesman that sired Ranma, Ryouga, & Tarou?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:19 pm
by Mr L

Re: Traveling salesman that sired Ranma, Ryouga, & Tarou?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:47 am
by TerraEpon
Incidently, in that story his father DIDN'T have the getting lost curse, the point that he was a traveling salesman -- and thus his other children don't have it. I think Ryoga had inherited it from his mother, then.

Re: Traveling salesman that sired Ranma, Ryouga, & Tarou?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:56 am
by slickrcbd
I found the first three text files in my fanfic collection now that I know what to look for. I looked at the RAAC archive at ftp.gweep.ca and found that the third "chapter" is missing from the archive.

Any suggestions on what i can do? My time is somewhat limited so e-mailing it to people who want it would be right out, and I know it is against all the rules to upload it to some website even if I don't alter the file at all.

Re: Traveling salesman that sired Ranma, Ryouga, & Tarou?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:04 am
by Makoto
Which storyline (sub-title) was that? I've been searching my archives, but the problem with that is that I saved them using the sub-titles, so I don't entirely remember which names to search for. :oops:

I did find parts one through seventeen of "Our Wedding Day," though. I should have most, if not all of the stories, though finding them is the difficult part. :D

Have you tried using the archive/cache sites to 'resurrect' their site (and their archive of their stories)? Or the FFML archive, though that might be a little more difficult to search, I'm not sure. Haven't really done that, all that much.