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Annotations for Act 5

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" There was something familiar about those tears, something
  more painful than the fires that delivered him to this
  world.  "Bell-chan?"  he whispered. "

Not quite the Bell-chan he's thinking of.  This is
Belladonna Ono, of Ranma 2096 continuity.

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"The nighttime sky in Tokyo was fairly nondescript..."

Ryo Muhoshin has returned to the continuity of Stefan
"Twoflower" Gagne's "Ministry of Confusion".

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" An explosion rocked the temple.  Keiichi looked up from
  his textbook.  "Urd?" he asked. "

"Ah My Goddess!" by Kosuke Fujishima.

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"I thought you looked like Ranma!" Urd declared, slapping
the table with her free hand.  "So, did you inherit his... 
magnetic charm?" 

In addition to this being an "Ah My Goddess!" section, Ross
McKenzie, on a whim, also decided to tie it into "The
(sur)Real World" by Rod M.

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" "You," he growled.  "INCONCEIVABLE!" "

A tip of the hat by Rod M. to the story "The Princess
Bride", in which a villain in the cast often says
"INCONCEIVABLE!"

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" Ed Ryouga Marlowe..."

Tip of the hat to Philip Marlowe, a detective made famous as
portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in several movies. 

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" Flames snapped and hissed around him.  He felt himself
 tumbling downwards in this endless azure flame, then
 suddenly slammed into earth.  He would've screamed in pain,
 except that he was too surprised. "

This scene is the start of the crossover with Mike Loader's
"Smoke and Mirrors".

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"Kaeri," she said. "My name's Kaeri."

Kaeri ni = on the way home.

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" Apparently some sort of alien invasion was occurring, with
 the paper rather hysterically insisting that something
 called the RDF was capable of handling the threat. "

RDF = Robotech Defense Force.  Yes, we went there.

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" San Wei was in an interesting position. "

San Wei & his reality are entirely creations of Mike Loader,
made explicitly for this story.

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