Talk:Raging Mushroom/@comment-213.119.32.191-20150109201909

Kinda greatly dissapointed by this.

It started out very interesting: "it causes the mana naturally released from a man's body to have the quality of severely weakening a monster's physical strength. Because of this, even a frail, scrawny, sickly, whelp of a man can appear to boast freakish strength and defeat dragons and minotaurs in a contest of strength."

The idea that this mushroom could turn the tables and make mamono feel like the helpless prey for once was something very intriguing. It would break the monotone nature of the setting: mamono are predators and humans are prey, period. Yet the fact that the man is consumed by lust so the mamono isn't in mortal danger would not contradic the core of the setting at all.

But then it ruined it with this: "unless a monster intentionally accepts it, it won't be effective". Then what's the point? Mamono don't care if their prey intentionally accepts their advances, they'll attack anyway. So why does this mushroom not, for once, give a man the same privelige? Attack a Mamono that doesn't want to be attacked. Besides, mamono don't differ between raping and being raped, so it's not like "attacking" your "attacker" is going to change much in the end. And it's not like mamono respect a male's marriage to a human woman, or anything that's not already married to another mamono,  so why does this mushroom have to respect a Mamono's marriage to an Incubus?

"This mushroom has the shocking power to reverse the status quo" My ass, I call this false advertising. If I bought these, ate these and discover it does not work, I'd demand my money back.

And of course: "Additionally, if a monster eats this mushroom, her ferocity will remarkably increase, and she'll become a sex crazed beast and attack a man." Isn't that what a majority of mamono do anyway? And if that effect's always cancelled out by the previous one, then there's hardly any point in this.

Still, at least being able to show your superiority to an attacking mamono, to the point that they become submissive masochists is kinda cool. Wonder if a Minotaur or Hellhound could actually be tamed this way... And at least you never have to worry about being raped. Whenever a mamono (iether wife or wild) tries to, they'll end up being raped. The sex is inevitable, so why not allow yourself to always be dominant?

I still really like this thing, but not as much as I'd hoped.