Nymphlopedia

Entry 45: Spiral Nymphs

Madeline sighed as she finished bandaging Vince. Then she walked to Sonata with the bandages in hand-

"NOPE!" Sonata said. "Rule #1! Just healing syringes and stuff for me, please."

Madeline sighed, just throwing three healing-based syringes at her. They still worked just as well - in fact, once one was thrown over at Vince, he no longer needed his own bandages all around his limbs. And when the same was done to Tania, she could finally (after a few agonizing minutes) take off that Gaiaawful 'bra' of bandages around her breasts and go around topless again.

"Why." The Nurse asked all three of them.

"They had a cool weapon." Sonata, Vince, and Tania all said at once. Tania seemed to have caught herself using the word 'cool' and made a slight hic sound, as if she was trying to eat that word.

"Well. I don't mind the pay, but don't die, it would doom the world." She said.

"Got it." Said Sonata.

"I was talking to Tania! Not you! You're the most replaceable resident we have! Tania, why don't you just lock yourself out of danger and keep yourself in heavy containment?"

"I need to be free to have my hold keeping this world from being consumed by the undead at its strongest."

"I mean, you would be free, but- nevermind. Just please, be more careful around the Spiral Zones. I mean, it looks like a big 'don't go in here' zone."

...

They were a little more careful, but still not by that much.

So, all three of them flew over to those peculiar dark blue floating islands, with the swirling patterns and the like around their dark blue clouds. They looked nice and mystic. Especially the glowing runes all around the stone.

"OKAY!" Shouted Sonata. "Take two! We got this!"

They made it to the boundary, better than last time, but again those fuckers dive-bombed them. Vince got hit first, a navy blue-blur slammed in to him, which he guarded against with his hands. A dark blue Nymph, feathers on her wrists, with her eyes glowing white at the moment.

Vince's feet slid across the ground, while the Spiral Nymph kept pushing on to him... until they both skid to a stop, with her still in her dive-bombing pose. At a weird angle.

"LEAVE US ALONE!" Vince shouted. "WE'RE JUST LOOKING!"

"Haha, no!" She said. "Lindsey, the Slimes... we're getting sick of raids! We're beefing our security! You might not be as bad as either of those two nutcases, but we still don't want any friends of the Last Dryad up here!"

Another fast blur got Tania, which she guarded with her staff. "GAIA YOU HURT...!" She swore at her own personal Spiral Nymph.

Sonata kept fluttering in place. She side-stepped another blur. "HA!" She shouted. "You missed me-"

Apparently she didn't think that her own Spiral Nymph targetting her could just turn around and dive-bomb again. Because that's what happened. And she had to use her True Excalibur to block that. (They used their weapons but not Vince because Vince did not want to risk losing his precious, precious Chlorophyte Shotbow.)

Both Tania and Vince pushed their assaulting Spiral Nymphs off of them at once.

"Tania?" Vince asked.

"Yes?"

"We gotta kick their asses. Not just for ourselves, but so that Madeline won't snark."

"I agree." Tania replied.

Spiral Nymphs.

Strong flying energy radiates from the swirling dark blue fields of the Spiral Zones. It's almost tranquil... until their patron Nymphs come diving at you at high speeds!

Preferred Environment: Spiral Zones.

Environment Threat Level: Calm.

Environment Stats: Average rainfall/wetness. Cool. Fantastic. Rare. Portions in the sky (or in caves, if moved there) with swirling, navy blue air and a few scattered "islands" floating among a void. Tends to block out sunlight, but its own Spiralstone creates its own light.

Other Names: Dark Air Nymphs, "Void Nymphs."

Affinity: Wind.

Color: Dark Blue.

Traditional Costume Weapon: A single feather on each wrist. Enables flight and cutting through the air.

Vince's Comment: They intimidate me. A lot. Iralpsi could train a fucking Wyvern. That's... yeah, that's a good sign to not even try to piss them off.

Sonata's Comment: You know what's not surprising? I'm not a day person. Well, sunlight person, but also not a day person. Anyway, yeah, these are nice places to go to if you wanna shut out sunlight but don't want the... weirdness of Mushroom zones or other "sun-eating" biomes. Very romantic, like looking at the night sky. And romantic makes me horny. So yeah, I banged a lot of Nymphs here on principle that the surroundings of their houses look pretty. If you want a chance with me, just put your house somewhere that looks like it's in the night, it'll make it easier. Oh, if you want a chance with Spiral Nymphs? Yeah, sorry, no idea.

Tania's Comment: Spiral Nymph.
Nymphae Spiralis.
In ancient history they had gone by the name "Vortex Nymphs" until Vortex became associated with the horrors that is one of Cthulhu's prisons.
Naming aside, these Nymphs are essentially humanoid spaceships. They could reach the upper space layers if they please, it's just that... they have no real reason to.

Closing AN:

Day 15! Halfway there when it comes to day count, although less than halfway there when it comes to chapter count! Just five more days of a mediocre three chapters a day, and then we'll be on to four! But even before that, in two more days Part 2 will end, we'll finally get to Post-Plantera adventures (sadly there will be no new permanent main character like there was for Tania), and the settings will on average get more surreal. That's vaguely what I had planned for these.

Also if memory serves, the other NPCs haven't shown up in a while, so I'm trying to fix that for at least the last few tales of Part 2.

I once again stayed slow on writing the roughs, I just have them done up to 90 and while I started on 91 I realized that, twice, I was writing an environment/Nymph type I pretty much already did. But, I have all of the final biomes jotted down this time, no more having to at least come up with the ideas! So hopefully once I figure out what color is what I'll be easily able to plop them down in a "stable-enough" way for the first draft of this bigass story.

By the way, another shout out to BionicBandit_ since his series just ended and he even gave me a shout. Um, yeah. He's gonna do a mini Inktober thing, obviously on October, and meanwhile I'm just gonna keep this going for the rest of the month. (If I miss one fucking day of updating Nymphlopedia, I will cry. If I miss the anniversary of "Soos and the Real Girl" on September 22nd for updating Run: .GIFocalypse I will cry harder.)