Nymphlopedia

Entry 56: Blast Nymphs

Beginning AN:

And if you don't believe my Isaac Daily win streak, just search my user name in Isaacscores. It's the same as this user name.

I know I'm pretty much the only one who gives a shit about this, but I've been running in to this glitch(?) where the site's saying that the story hasn't updated when I updated it... for example, throughout all of yesterday it never once pushed over its "Date Updated" section so it basically said I never updated at all yesterday. So whatever.

Vince, Sonata, and Tania were all seated around a particular Nymph with 'sleeves' of stone that still had very fresh, glowing cracks on them. All four of them had their hands deep within the rather muddy earth.

"So, this will let me blow shit up?" Sonata asked.

The Blast Nymph, having heard that a hundred times, answered immediately: "No! It doesn't 'let you' just 'blow things up,' it taps in to the inherant instability of every object."

"Except the Perfectly Stable Cube." Tania said, holding a finger up.

"Yeah, Tania even let me play around with it to see if I could chip it." Sonata said. "I don't know if reverse psychology is involved, but..."

"Well it sort of is. I was using you like a lab rat."

"Cool."

Vince interrupted the two with a quick "Wait a minute." And he got out an ordinary arrow. One hand deep in the muck that looked like it was about to blow at any second, another on the wooden arrow, and...

It looked kind of like a Hellfire Arrow. It wasn't perfect, it looked like a bootleg version of that.

He placed it in his trusty, trusty Tsunami, and aimed it at the training target in the area. By just stringing it, the arrow multiplied to five as he pulled it back, and then it fired almost instantly.

All five arrows exploded. Vince jumped in place and pumped his fist.

"YES!" He cheered. "I don't think I'll ever have to talk to Tordak again now!"

Sonata just laughed. "People who hate each other are funny."

Fucking speaking of...

A redheaded man that all four present parties were more than familiar with dropped right behind Sonata three-point style. He looked like he could pass as Sophia's twin brother. Because he was actually her younger brother by two years.

"DAVE IS BACK IN THE BUILDING!" He shouted, holding a sword up. "SONATA! I'm here to-"

"Did you bring the tank?" Sonata asked.

"...No."

"Your own lil Nymph Army?"

"...No. What do you mean 'little,' it's larger than yours.

"BUT ANYWAY SONATA. Dave's challenging you to a one-on-one regular fist fight!"

"I'm happy you stopped bugging your sister but now I know why your sister disowned you. Get a fucking life."

"STOP FOLLOWING LINDSEY!" Tania screamed at him.

"Oh yeah, that too. Lindsey sucks."

"What's wrong?!" Dave asked. "You too chicken to fight Dave?!"

Sonata punched him on the side, making a small explosion that sent him flying away from there.

That might seem overly harsh but... just wait for Romancing the Last Dryad.

"Nice work!" Said the Blast Nymph. "You're getting the hand of Blast Magic!"

"Thanks!" Said Sonata. "But I just fucking hate Dave."

"Who doesn't?"

Blast Nymphs.

Strong glowing energy radiates from this volatile field. Only these Nymphs and the finest trained warriors should handle their ore with care, or else the mishandlers will, well, have a blast.

Preferred Environment: Blast Zone.

Environment Threat Level: Severe. ("Beneficial" if used properly.)

Environment Stats: Dry mostly, but attracts decent rainfall. Warm. Moderate-Fantastic. Rare. Lands with glowing, pulsing orange-ish bundles of pure explosive energy,

Other Names: Volatile Nymphs, Glowing-Rock Nymphs, "C-4 Nymphs," (Innacurate.) "Altplosive Nymphs," "Hellstone Nymphs" (not technically accurate) "Bomb Rock Nymphs" (?).

Affinity: Fire.

Color: Light Orange.

Traditional Costume Weapon: "Sleeves" and "legs" of special stone with glowing orange cracks along them. These allow them to channel explosives, generally blowing things up. This also helps them make a "burst" from themselves, "blowing themselves up" without causing any damage.

Vince's Comment: If you want to know the fine differences between "fire magic" and "explosive magic," you've found the right type of Nymph to help you out with that. (And Magma Nymphs too, I guess. Maybe Broil Nymphs.) If you're looking for a non-painful sparring partner, don't. If you're looking for a way to survive against a hostile one trying to kill you for food or out of some complicated political history grudge, sorry, you're out of luck. I don't have anything at all to say on this one. Explosions are dangerous, "kids." (I say that as a joke of course. For the first encyclopedia on Nymphs, it's a very kid-unfriendly one...) (Note from Tania: Given the subject matter-) (Note from Sonata: NUDITY ISN'T AUTOMATICALLY SEXUAL YOU FUCKING PRUDE but yeah there are other things about Nymphs that make them hard to teach to the kiddies.) (Note from Tania: Sonata actually did interrupt me while I was writing that to push me aside and write that herself. She typed the hyphen and the close parenthesis.) (Note from Vince because this is so chaotic that I have to let the reader know I'm speaking again on my own comment section: YOU HAVE YOUR OWN COMMENT SECTIONS FIGHT THERE.)

Sonata's Comment: Did anybody come up with a name for their special glowing explosive balls of what looks like hardened magma or something? It sounds like something that could use a name. I like throwing them at Rock Golems and blowing them up. Those guys are fucking assholes.

Tania's Comment: Blast Nymphs.
Nymphae Inspiratione.
They compete with Force Nymphs and others that will not be covered in the First Edition in being among the top explosive experts of the world. Their specialty is giving explosive properties to things that even would not be under normal circumstances. Water balloons, air balloons, and anything else imaginable - especially throwable - could be weaponized. Throwing a propane tank at a truck will explode. Normally they would not. This is a common misunderstanding.
(Note from Sonata: Vince may have chased me out of his spot but I'm not done fighting motherfuckaaaa... ;) )
Sonata, no.

Closing AN:

You know what I recently discovered really fucking annoys me? Characters who refer to themselves in first-person. (I haven't seen anyone do that in real life.) Especially if it's supposed to make them seem "cute" or "moe" or whatever, no, blech. So, yeah, from that context you can figure out where I'm going with Dave here.

Am I going overboard on the Pikmin stuff? I feel like I'm going overboard on the Pikmin stuff. The answer to just what they're based on - not a specific type of Pikmin, sorta, for once - will be in the next chapter. And since this isn't a multiple of 3 (wow, we're nearing the end of multiples of 3 and approaching multiples of 4. Even more frequent updates coming in the last ten days!), you'll find out later today instead of having to wait for tomorrow!

I swear I felt like I already used "Bomb Rock Nymphs" as an alt name but I looked through the obvious chapters and couldn't find it.

Also I have been slowly watching someone play Deltarune Chapter 2 and Chapter 2 spoilers:

...

...I love Spamtron already.

I should probably just keep my fucking mouth shut about that game already.