Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-27303410-20180910043729/@comment-36855838-20180924033141

I just remembered one of those BAD fics that I had read, I stopped what I assume is less than halfway through because I just couldn't take it anymore.

I would NEVER blame ANYONE for not reading this, but I feel that it needs to at least be voiced.

The fic began fairly normally for an mge fic, some paladins and fighters and a mage going to slay a big bad monster that was obviously not.

But then they get to the lair, you see, their prey is an echidna, and the great shift of mamono to a succubus base hasn't happened yet.

A fairly epic battle ensues following a cavein of the lair, and then, midway through the battle, the shift happens, the echidna just sits there, staring at herself, the humans go to strike, and then lose miserably once she retaliates.

There is a lenghthy time from her point of view, as she details an inventory of her daughters, making a point of how she was certain she had sons.

Plenty of time is also devoted to the humiliation, torture, and *ahem* use of one of the males from the adventurer party.

Eventually, the echidna decides to take revenge a fairly nearby town that gave rise to the adventurers who murdered her mate.

We smash-cut awkwardly to the village mid attack, focusing on a few fighters trying to drive off the foes, and eventually a single swordsman who duels a lizardman or something in that family. (it might have said "salamander"?)

The fight is described well, it does a good job of setting up tension, the story does a good job at being a story, but what it's about is clearly revenge.

Anyway, swordman loses, town is taken.

The echidna then leads a mass execution of anybody too old or too female to be of use to her.

This is where I had to stop, I could not read any more after the description of the old men and women and children being lined up in front of a town square full of mamono, mind you, and being slaughtered without a word of protest.

This echidna is not funny, she is not cartoonishly evil, she is really, viscerally, maliciously evil.

The town had made their living based on the slaying of monsters, they had made fountains and slides out of their bones, armor out of their hides.

This was all before the change, and it's pretty clear that not everybody was a monster hunter.

The Echidna, and her daughters, they killed children, who could never have been involved.

Senseless revenge.

I hate when a nice setting is twisted so cruelly, but the worst part is, there was nothing that could be done about it, she was too powerful.

An insane beast who kills children like that is an insult to the canon echidnas, specifically legendary for their motherly traits.

Echidna link:   []

Lizardman link: []

Salamander link: []

I found it:

Chapter 01 []

Resource used to find it (a mixed bag of awesome, scary, and sad fics more or less in the mge setting):

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