Nymphlopedia
Entry 74: Curse Nymphs
Beginning AN:
Okay I've gotten a little better at "writing ahead" this time. Last night, I wrote little more than I had been for the last chapter, and I did a tiny bit of this one. And I'm very gradually writing the Dryad/Conclusion chapter a little each day.
I'm still unsure if I should make "Hex Nymphs" their "main" name.
Vince had his Eventide gripped firmly in-hand. Almost as if he was counting on the light to somehow dispell the curse... but that wasn't how it worked and he knew that.
"Will this biome make this bow weaker?" He asked.
"That's... not something we can easily test." Said Tania.
"'We' not including me." Said Sonata with her arms folded. "Out of principle I don't want to touch that stupid bow. I fucking hate the Empress. And no, I don't care about respecting the dead. I mean, the dead's our bitches, almost."
"This is all completely new, to the world, there is only one Eventide that we know of. There might only ever be one."
Another set of those... almost hypnotic violet flames shot up from the ground. Appearing to just come from the air itself.
Sonata put her hands on Vince's shoulders. "That shit isn't natural. Or caused by an animal. There's at least one of these ol' Hex Nymphs around here. They are fucking annoying!"
"Um... Sonata..." Tania said. "Remember, our promisses to generalize less..."
"Their powers are fucking annoying!"
"Thank you."
Glowing symbols appeared around the trio, and chanting was heard from all directions. Even above and below. Vince was already loading his bow.
"You can't shoot a hex Vince." Sonata said.
"What?! Yes you can."
"...What?"
"What were we doing in the Dungeon? Fighting against those water balls and stuff?"
"Those aren't hexes or curses those are balls of fire or water or something made by casting spells. This is more like throwing a spell itself at you-"
And a violet fireball was tossed through the air, making all three parties dodge.
"See now that is something shootable made by a curse." Sonata said.
"So I could shoot that and you shouldn't have talked me down for taking my bow out!"
"Okay my mistake sheesh."
Tania tapped the end of her staff on the ground twice. "Curse Nymphs!" She said. "We mean no harm! We are only passing through to get your aide in our quest to vanquish the terror of the seas!"
"Nice way of telling them 'we need shit for a big sea piggy.'" Sonata half-whispered to her.
"Thanks." Tania whispered back, more quietly.
One of the chanting voices spoke up. One of the ones that came from above them. A look above, in the leaves or past the few clearings thereof, and there was nobody visible. "Say you surrender!"
Sonata laughed. "Fuck you! The Naked Empire doesn't surrender! I don't even want to say the S-word!"
"...Wait. Are you... going to fight Duke Fishron? Is that the seamonster you're talking about?"
"Yeah!" Vince said. "I REALLY don't want to but Tania insists we should!"
"He's been slaughtering many people of the sea." Tania said. "And destroying the ecosystem."
A much larger violet flame appeared in the middle of them, with an appropriate-looking Nymph stepping out of it. Two hex flames remained, on her shoulders.
"We can make a temporary agreement for fighting Duke Fishron, because fuck that guy. But don't take advantage of that. Or else..."
She pointed at Tania. "Two heads." Then at Vince. "Snake penis." Then Sonata. "Good luck playing video games with slimey thumbs."
"...Holy shit you're not really latent with mind-reading magic how did you know the punishments that would screw us over that badly?"
The Curse Nymph winked at him and put her index finger to her chin. "I'm just that good."
"Hang on." Said Sonata. "By 'snake penis,' do you mean his penis becomes shaped like a snake, or that it turns in to its own snake with a mind of its own?"
"The latter. Definitely the latter. The former is... ew." The Curse Nymph answered.
"Oh wow if you threatened me with a snake clit, I might have considered the S-word. Considered."
Curse Nymphs.
Nature has a light side and a dark side. These Nymphs really want to show you that dark site, up-close and personally.
Preferred Environment: Cursed Woods/Cursed Caves.
Environment Threat Level: Severe.
Environment Stats: Moist. Warm. Fantastic. Rare. Forests filled with purple flames and extra-hard stone, with grounds made perfect for casing advanced spells of magic. Can aide with "tamed" tools from Evil Biomes. (Such as tools made of Demonite, Crimtane, Sorrowstone, Errormetal, etc.)
Other Names: "Mausoleum Nymphs" (?), Hex Nymph, Cursing Nymphs. "Cursed Nymph" implies that they are afflicted with a curse, rather than being the ones to cast the curse, so please do not use that. They don't.
Affinity: Fire.
Color: Light Violet.
Traditional Costume Weapon: Flames of various colors - most often violet, some times others in the purple range, rarely other colors entirely - around their shoulders, typically flaring up on their fingertips, and around their arms and legs.
Vince's Comment: OOF, WOW! These Nymphs are even worse with their strange magic than normal! One of them swapped my body with Tania's. No, I didn't "enjoy it" because I had a woman's body, get your mind out of the gutter, I have standards. Instead I was completely creeped out. Like all Nymphs, Dryads don't have "normal" internal organs, so instead of feeling around for "regular" muscles I was able to feel those weird vine things she has, moving around under the skin, and it made me almost throw up. I somehow accidentally switched to have Tania's internal stuff pop out and in her true form, when I ran to the bathroom and saw myself in the mirror, I fainted. And apparently threw up while I was passed out. Tania apparently had the same reaction to being able to feel "rigid" skeleton and muscle under my skin.
Sonata's Comment: Please. Please. Please. Don't go for the obvious joke about cursing and swearing. You've already got one "Swear Nymph." me. Fuck fuck shit ass fuck raw asscocks. By the way, that's my reaction to being cursed with messing with them. Don't. You'd want a Curse Nymph as a friend, so just... meet one with a whole fucking army of other friends. And be prepared. Have lots of countercurses out. The best being the Countercurse Mantra, so they can't disable your ability to do anything.
Tania's Comment: Curse Nymphs.
Nymphae Maledictum.
Yet another biome that blurs the line between Natural and Evil, and in fact it bears many similarities to the Corruption, just without the spreading and without the story behind it. "The Cursed Lands" should be named like their Nymphs, as they cast curses, not that they are lands afflicted with a curse. These Nymphs draw direct, pure, raw magic from the universe of Terraria, but specifically a "dark kind" (ironic for a Nymph of the "Light" group, but a Nymph's color generally has nothing to do with the sorts of magic they invoke, it is merely a convenient category system) that invokes hexes or other ailments, rather than positive or just ambiant spells as seen in the Enchanted Lands.
Now if you'll excuse me, it seems like Vince and I will be swapped for quite a while more. I should teach him how to use my Dryad's Blessing, if I can, to give our home that extra protection if needed.
...
I hate having a Human penis. And I'm pretty sure Vince hates me going around naked in his body too. He was at least nice enough to not clothe me... should I respect him and clothe his body?
(Note from Sonata: No.)
Closing AN:
Woot body swapping. Also I think an early chapter might have contradicted something about the biology of the Nymph Variants (namely saying they have muscles and bones) so... handwave, that's their version of "muscles" and "bones" and stuff.
Just in case anyone is wondering why Tania and Vince are body-swapped when there wasn't any swapping in the mini-story: The entries in-universe are written after all the stories. The Curse Nymph swapping their bodies happened after this all happened, and by the Law of Comedic Timing, it was as they were on the entry for Curse Nymphs. (Or, you could say that they skipped around in the numbering and wrote it ahead of time.)