Dragon Ranma Omake:

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Demonology, Alignment, and You!

Our scene opens to find a female figure standing at a podium wearing the typical graduat's cap and robes. Only hers are open in the front, and whatever it is she has on underneath is barely managing to keep her "talent" in check. She has long, pointed ears, long amethyst hair, and is wearing glasses. To her right is a large chalkboard with several diagrams, charts, and random doodles scribed upon it.

"Greetings, Class. I am Professor Rilone, and today we will be discussing alignment, demonology, and how they interact."

"Our first lesson is on alignment."

"Alignment," she began, "is a quick way of describing your behavios and moral comapss. It's a good way of letting someone know, vaugely, how you'll act or react in any given situation."

"Imagine, if you will, a really large circle. Now, split it into quarters. Okay, at the top you have 'Good', opposite it is 'Evil' and to the left and right you have 'Law' and 'Chaos' respectively."

The female adjusted her glasses and continued.

"On a brief side-note, 'Law' and 'Order' are the same, but 'Law' will often refer to a code of some sort, not necessarily the law of the land."

"Anyway," she continued," everyone starts firmly in the middle, in what is referred to as 'True Neutral'. 'True Neutral' refers more to ones decisions than any sort of good/evil actions or intent. The man who chooses not to get involved is 'true neutral', so is the woman who helps one side and then the other to keep them both in balance."

"As one commits 'lawful', 'chaotic', 'good' or 'evil' acts, one's alignment changes ever so slightly. So, one could be born 'true neutral' and progress to 'lawful evil' through a criminal organization or 'chaotic good' by becoming a vigilante."

She took a sip of water and cleared her throat before continuing.

"Now, demonology is the study of demons; not only that, it is the practice of summoning them to the mortal plane."

Here the female got a goofy smile on her face and twitched for a moment, and then shook herself before continuing.

"Now, it's not terribly hard to summon a demon, if one knows how, but every time you do that, it counts as if you had just committed an evil action. So -ooooh, right there- so, you could be the nicest guy in the world, but the cosmos would still see you as evil for summoning all those demons. "

Her glasses were now completely fogged up, her face was flushed, and she was sagging backwards a little.

"N-now this relates to a p-paladin –Oh, GODDESS, YEAH!- in that a paladin's aura of g-g-good will instantly alert h-h-him or-r-r-r h-her to a –MmMmMmM!- demonologist in the area, and p-p-p-retty m-much guarantees that t-there w-w-w-will be s-s-some close observation going on."

The woman was now pretty much leaning on the podium just to stay upright and gasping for breath.

"I-I h-hope th-that c-c-c-clears some –MORE! MORE!- things up for you. T-thank you a-and good –GOOD GODDESS! DO THAT AGAIN!"

At this point, the woman had pretty much given up on propriety and was hanging on to the podium for dear life.

With a final, shuddering scream of bliss, she sagged down a touch and gasped for breath, a contented smile on her face.

Soun Tendo popped his head up from under the podium and looked at her with confusion.

"I'm sorry, Rilone-koi, I licked and lapped all aound under there but I couldn't find any elf-honey."

Rilone smiled and said "Don't worry about it, I'm sure you'll find it next time."

End Omake.