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Entry 35: Acid Nymphs

The rushing rivers of acid went about, absolutely destroying any stone or metal or even eating away at magma below.

"Yeah." Said Sonata. "I'm no engineer but that's definitely a dam break."

Vince for some stupid reason was holding an umbrella. Even after Tania repeatedly told him it wasn't a good idea.

"...You're builders, right?" A dark lime Nymph with her feet soaking up a nice acid puddle below her said. "Could you help us before this spills to the other regions?"

Sonata sighed. "Yeah, builders and we clean up nature, this is our job. Tania, how-"

Tania tapped her staff on the ground twice and the rushing river was blocked off by especially powerful plants rising through the cave's stone, right before it reached the band of four. Waving the staff around, she pushed the rushing liquid back, with only minimal damage to her vines and a few drops that leaked.

All four of them went on forth and followed her, the Acid Nymph even abandoning her soak.

"And again." Said the Acid Nymph. "Sorry to call you on really short notice..."

"It's no problem." Vince said with a shrug.

"As long as we're getting our pay..." Sonata started rubbing her index finger and thumb against the Acid Nymph's face.

"Sonata!" Said Vince.

"Yeah, he's right, don't even joke about getting payed for fixing the environment."

"I mean..." Tania began. But stopped.

Okay, so, they walked over to the massive lake that was broken, just a little bit of its acidstone chipped off compared to the overall huge pool that stretched to the horizon. Tania waved around her staff a few more times, which made the vines lock in place.

"Okay." Said Sonata. "So what do we do?"

"Help us place the acidstone in place." Tania replied.

"Oh, no need!" The Acid Nymph looked over as the specific acid splash on her began to glow. "I have this:"

She made some of that lime liquid carefully spill out over the top of Tania's little 'vine taping' part, made some hand motions, and - almost spitting in the face of the laws of physics - it turned in to solid rock. Not freezing, it outright changed to something different.

"...Neat." Said Vince.

"So again, what are we even here for?" Asked Sonata. "Vince and I didn't get to do anything."

"If you want a job that bad, remember, you're our Naked Empire manager. Just ask her if she wants to join."

"Oh, yippee!"

"And for me?" Asked Vince.

Tania shrugged. "Well, if any bats show up, you can-"

A Caustic Bat swooped over all four of them, making them duck, and making Vince take out his Cobalt Repeater. Sonata even cried out "SHIT!"

"SHOOT THEM!" Tania pretty much finished her sentence. "VINCE-"

"ON IT!"

Well he did that pretty well at least.

Acid Nymphs.

Just like the acids they bathe in, these Nymphs are capable of eating through almost anything, and they prefer people.

Preferred Environment: Acid Lakes.

Environment Threat Level: Severe.

Environment Stats: Moist. Average-Cool Temperature. Fantastic. Rare.

Other Names: Caustic Nymphs, Dissolving Nymphs, Low pH Nymphs.

Affinity: Water.

Color: Dark Lime.

Traditional Costume Weapon: A single (traditionally, some may have more than one) "snaking" pattern of acid that appears to be like a moving, liquid tattoo, yet is actually just a splotch held in place by magic and easily removable. Typically goes up from around the foot, snaking around the leg, then up the side and ending by going around an arm, but some form them in other shapes and following other trails. Allows them to make liquids (or even some solids) more acidic in an instant, or to a weak degree control existing acids. Sufficiently powerful Acid Nymphs can even manipulate a body's internal acids.

Vince's Comment: Drain cleaner. Always bring that when venturing near the Acid Lakes. Just, always. Please. For safety.

Sonata's Comment: I'd love to talk about how sour they taste in graphic detail, but apparently Tania actually does have standards even though back in the Love Nymph entry (yeah that was still a thing, a reminder because that was cringeworthy so you readers might have repressed that memory) she pretty much told the world how she was gonna jill off to them. So, I'll instead say this: It's fun throwing anything in to their lakes and watching them dissolve. When we killed the Eater of Worlds, the first thing I did was throw its remains in that bath, and WOAH! Why bother using our "purification" when this acid just melts Cthulhu a new asshole?!

Tania's Comment: Acid Nymphs.
Nymphae Acidum.
Nymphs, in general, test the definitions of a lot of Human words. "Acids" is one such word from this variant. Before I took to speaking with scientists, "acids" to me were simply "liquids that could eat anything; Gaia's stomach so to speak." With knowledge regarding hydrogen ion concentration at the forefront, I am worried. Ada, Sophia, and Ragz claim that even some of the milder acids of the Acid Nymphs' native habitat are about on par with (Human) stomach acid, and some of the stronger ones have overwhelmingly negative pH values that I did not think were possible. I have never been so unsettled by a number before. Predictably, what little plant-based food that grows here has juices so acidic that they will eat humans more than humans can eat them.

Closing AN:

I don't know if I said this already or not, but this will have no content straight from other mods - there might be some inspiration here and there. So um, basically, this right here might be the closest to the Sulphurous Sea? I don't know, I don't know my Calamity.