User blog:Gremoria/A Rant: A New Threat

This is going to be more of a rant than a response of sorts…

I’m going to level with you all, I originally wasn’t going to dignify this with a response as I have concluded yesterday that the person who wrote this is just looking for attention and that engaging with them is not advised. I login today to possibly write up a WWYD response (even though I already did two, thus reaching my goal for the month) only to find that said individual had posted a WWYD scenario. Now I don’t do responses to every one that is posted because if I did nothing in my personal life would get done, then I read it… all 1661 words of it. GOOD. FUCKING. GOD.

When I said that this person posted things to garner attention and congratulations, they got a return on their investment. Rather than engage them directly however, I took the time to copy/paste this scenario into a word document to better grasp just what the fuck they were trying to get across. So what do I think of it?

Spelling and grammatical errors aside, this is the edgiest Goddamn thing I have ever read on this site. Like, I can’t even imagine how the author did not cut themselves on this much edge. I had to read over this thing multiple times to fully grasp just what the author was trying to get an answer for, only to find that he started his own scenario and was on the verge of answering it with the bit at the end, thus rendering this WWYD scenario pointless. That in it of itself is an accomplishment, good on them!

The scenario revolves on what I will refer to from this point on as: “The Perfect Order”. It is apparently an offshoot of the canonical Order of the MGE lore that somehow dwarfs the capital of Lescatie. Interesting concept and with a bit of polish, I could find this believable.

So how did the author fuck this up?

Let me count the ways:

1)     This Perfect Order apparently possesses an alien form of technology not even understood by Gremlins who are good with this type of thing. Not that this matters as it is somehow immune to Gremlin tinkering… okay? So what was the point of stealing it if it’s useless to anyone other that The Perfect Order. Unless of course you break the spells and enchantments over them, because even magic reinforced technology has its weaknesses.

2)     The Perfect Order knows everything about Monster Girls, nevermind the fact that mutations can arise within Monster Girl species as has been shown in the past, so this is completely bunk. They supposedly know every spell, technique and weapon used by mamono, nevermind any of the aforemention being altered in some way by the Demon Lord. They can somehow induce a heat in monster girls, which means they utilize some form of demonic or spiritual energy to achieve this effect, nevermind the fact that those using this technique don’t undergo some form of corruption, which would be a natural occurrence for such a thing. Magic has a price, no matter what it is.

3)     “The new nation's army doesnt simply charge into battle without a plan like other order nations. They actually use tacticts designed to be used against sentient beings.”

That wasn’t me, that was an excerpt taken just as it was written.

I think this would be a given, what kind of authoritarian theocracy would go in without a plan? The rest I’m not even going to dignify because anyone with a modicum of common sense could figure this shit out.

4)     This goes into the core of what makes up the majority of military personnel, which are apparently vaguely humanoid, zealously obedient drones, mannequins or whatever with enhanced physical and mental abilities able to disappate any demonic energy that touches them, can output greater amounts of mana as they can take in and are basically capable of taking out higher tier Mamono on their own.

Judging from the rest of this particular article, these are just the fodder while those involved in the upper echelons of the Perfect Order itself are Humans able to control them with some undefined mind control spell.

Wanna make the drones ineffectual? Take out the ones casting the spell and BAM! Entire army goes dormant! And since the higher ups are still human, should be easy to do, or corrupt them full of demonic energy and this entire system falls apart.

5)     I don’t even need to go into this, I figured this was a given. Good to know that the Perfect Order isn’t above nuking an entire populace just to cleanse the world of the Demon Lord’s influence, which… seems par for the course, given it’s The Order, but damn that’s edgy!

6)     Okay, I’m sure Order cities are huge and I’m sure they’d also have the infrastructure for maintenance bays and such, which is fine and all, but I also think that the leaders of the Order outside of this Perfect Order would be ousted not just for gross incompetence at just how easily it is to take it all down even with proper defense but would be labelled heretics for even considering the use of such methods.

7)     This one renders the first topic completely fucking pointless as it shows that this technology isn’t alien at all but instead brought from another world where mamono and magic didn’t even exist. Now if this technology is supposedly used to be anti-mamono, that means that The Perfect Order would have to adopt methods outside of the Order i.e. tap a source high in demonic energy to make them resilient to such methods, which is heresy!

Now, I don’t know about you, but I think that Henry Pilvarx (the guy who sold them this crap in the first place) is a pretty goddamn incompetent boob. Not only would he have to rely on what little knowledge the Perfect Order may or may not have on mamono, but they would have to kidnap scholars from all over the world in order to have a complete encyclopedic knowledge of mamono. That means bringing incubi into their pure cities and thus allowing for demonic corruption to spread.

If this is what the Perfect Order considers to be a hero, then I don’t think the Demon Lord has anything to worry about, he’s just another human to be corrupted.

Going onto the scenario itself, Henry Pilvarx knows he’s fucking incompetent because he easily dispatches on of the things he brought to the world, proving how utterly useless the Perfect Order is.

And that’s it, I’m done, this is probably gonna garner me a lot of hate and I’m fine with that.

That being said, the idea is not a bad idea in it of itself, with polish it could be pretty fucking solid, sans the violence against mamono. It is however, very poorly executed with its already assumed conclusion, there isn’t even a point into responding to the scenario, because it only has a few possible outcomes.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go write something a bit more productive to get away from this edge.

If you're morbidly curious, you can find the original scenario here... enjoy.

~Keep on rockin'

Grem