Nymphlopedia
Entry 75: Radiant Nymphs
Beginning AN:
...Well we're at the three-fourths of the story. But... both this and the Bonus are a bit jumbled, sorry about that.
"AAAHHHHH!" Sonata screamed as she violated what her common sense had been telling her for 500 years and darted to the Jungle of all places. It was an emergency.
Killing the Cultist at that time was a huge mistake. They should have prepped even more.
She ducked in to a Jungle bush. But the floating orange pillar thing with THOSE GODDAMN WORMS was still looming near. Raining fireballs everywhere. She could faintly see the forces of the Naked Empire trying to fend off with the enemies, making only minimal progress.
"CRAWLTIPEDES! CRAWLTIPEDES! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!" Her red eyes darted around to all directions, but especially up. "THEY'RE- VINCE! TANIA! WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED ONE OF YOU TO FINISH YOUR PILLARS AND GET OVER HERE SPLITTING UP WAS A MISTAKE KILLING THE LUNATIC CULTIST WAS A MISTAKE I'M GONNA DIE!"
She heard a pair of feet land next to her in the Jungle mud. Sonata lit up, turning over to the source-
Dammit Dave.
Well, he evaporated all of Sonata's fear at least.
"HELLO THERE!" He shouted. "I noticed none of you had gone after the Stardust Pillar! So I, the mighty Dave, with my own army of Nymphs like your own, the 'summoner' of your band, tried to harness the power of the Stardust-"
"One, aren't you on Cthulhu's side? I don't actually know because whenever I ask you anything, you always answer by telling me your life story from birth-"
"I was second to Sophia ever since I was born-"
"See that shut up. Two, did you destroy the Pillar and make something cool from it?"
"Oh, no. The Stardust Pillar kicked my ass."
"Then fuck off."
"I CHALLENGE YOU TO-"
Sonata just raised her Influx Waver.
"-FUCKING OFF!" He said, moonwalking away from her.
Sonata turned around and faced the giant orange burning tower in the distance.
OKAY. She thought. This is the melee one. So, melee is close-range... flying! I just need to fly and get better range! I mean, those stupid Crawltipedes would come after me anyway!
Her wings sprouted and she went up-
And immediately took a painful bite to the side from one of those damn worms. In a panic, Sonata chugged a Greater Healing Potion, flew higher- got bit again.
There was no way she would be able to tank another bite. Teleporting back home would mean a bunch of pink brain monsters would be there to greet her. So, she just flew away. And the Crawltipede just followed after her. Fast. Closing in.
Sonata hesitantly brought up a certain blue bottle to her lips-
A swirling vortex appeared by the tail of the monster, immediately catching it and sucking it up to oblivion. Once Sonata landed on the treetops, Tania landed next to her, smiling. Holding a pink... orb thing.
"You looked in need of aide." She said, also sticking a tongue out. She threw more swirling masses of magic around, catching multiple Solar enemies.
"...Okay-" Sonata said.
BLAMBLAMBBBBBLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!
Vince landed himself and started firing at all the monsters of fire and rock that had been- oh shit they had been closing in unbeknowest to Sonata. He was holding a capital-F fancy looking high-tech gun. Unsurprisingly, it was the weapon that was completely obliterating his targets.
"I FEEL FUCKING AMAZING!" Vince cheered. "WE'RE REALLY IN THE END NOW!"
The air rippled as the feiry tower's bubble disappeared. Vince and Tania looked at each other, nodded, Vince swapped out his Schroomite headwear, and they both used different weapons. Tania holding a pink gauntlet - NOT wearing it - that bombarded the Pillar with pink and blue blasts. Vince going back to his trademark weapon, bows, and using a teal glowing bow that fired an absurd number of arrows at it. The Pillar rotted and exploded, leaving only bits of glowing, burning, angry orange energy left.
"...Holy shit I was useless." Sonata said. Vince dropped next to her.
"That was awesome! I feel awesome! I am awesome! You're awesome! Let's have sex, right here, right now!"
"Vince, Vince!" Sonata said. "Jeez, the apocalypse is exciting you!"
"I have SPIRIT, Sonata! TEAM! SPIRIIIIIIT!"
"Yeah, yeah that's nice, but public sex is a line I'm not a fan of crossing?"
"Yeah okay sorry I just got carried away."
Then creepy, glowing white hands began to spawn around the trio. Sonata rolled her eyes. "Really?! EVERY time we're around the Jungle now, it feels like we stumble on to SOME weird Nymph Variant we didn't know was next to-"
The hands slipped under the feet of them and formed discs. Acting as platforms for them to stand on. Vince basically took every word Sonata just said and repeated them in the form of a sigh that carried the exact same energy. (Even the interruption - it moved a bit faster than he was prepared for.)
First the discs flew them over to the Solar Fragments so that the trio could grab them. Then, it took them through the ground below. But not by that much of a distance.
So, the 'pocket' they landed in was... 'light' all over, although it was nothing that blinded them with sheer brightness.
Compared to the last Spooky Void the Trio was in, before Plantera, there was still floating rock islands, but there were more of them, and they were larger. It looked less like islands floating in a void and more like a large land mass that was breaking, revealing cracks of white. Several smooth buildings in 'perfect' shape were formed, towering spires - oh. And they had icons on them resembling the Pillars. With huge blocks of text under each. The white void also had its own stuff swirling about it, looking like... really pale gray wind wisps?
Speaking of wind, a powerful gust blew through, and in a bright white flash, a white Nymph appeared before the gang.
"Hi I like how you took out that Pillar that was attacking near the Radiant Fields but if you would please don't do anything else near us I mean wow." She said. "Here I have prepared a feast for our heroes, saviours of the Radiant Fields and I guess the Jungle around it is important too."
"We're one Pillar away from destroying Cthulhu once and for all." Vince said. "Thank you, for the feast."
"Why are you thanking me you haven't eaten it yet for all either of us knows it could poison you or something. And also we are enemies I just wanted to give you a gift. Not even on behalf of the Radiant Nymphs that live on this island moreso just that I want you eat up. I feel like offering a truce to help defeat Cthulhu because good Pan you are going to need all the help you can get."
"Our war is coming to an end." Tania said as the Radiant Nymph snapped her fingers, making three dining trays show up. "Either I finish what Dryadkind started, or Cthulhu finishes what he started. Today, the final battle will happen."
"Unless you also want to eliminate Lindsey and the real King Slime on the same day which you shouldn't because that would not work unless your plan is suicide then this is not the end. Also unless someone else fights them for you."
Dave somehow dropped in, perching on a piece of white stone that stuck up to the air and pointing at himself.
"I'LL do this!" He said. "Wait, aren't I working for Lindsey? I mean-"
"No." The Radiant Nymph said, making a harsh shoving motion that knocked him off and down in to a glowing white pit.
"Hey," Said Sonata, lightly pushing away at her dinner tray. "I can't eat this. I mean, I didn't really do anything to the pillar and- OH THAT SMELLS SOOOOOO GOOD FUCK IT!"
She took the silver lid off - revealing a large, roasted plate of worms and beetles. And with her hands, just shovelled it in to her mouth in huge heapings.
"So..." Vince hesitantly looked at the concealed platter in front of him. "I assume these are customized to the person?"
He took the lid off.
The exact same meal awaited him.
"No." The Radiant Nymph said.
"You can still eat this!" Tania said - oh. Vince didn't even notice that each platter had its own silverware until he saw Tania using a fork to eat the beetle corpses. "It's edible to Humans and it's actually really healthy!"
"I'll... oh what the fuck." He started eating it. It did, in fact, taste pretty good.
Sonata fell on her back, already half-finished, licking any residue from her fingers. "Guys I'm sorry I fought like shit and could only kill like four of those things. I promise, I'll lead the storm on the Stardust Pillar. You know, maybe instead of going after the pillars we had, I could have tried Stardust first?"
The white Nymph's eyebrows lowered. "...You should have done that to begin with."
"Fuck, where were you to tell us that when this started?" Sonata asked.
Radiant Nymphs.
Are you afraid of the dark? Well, these Nymphs will teach you that you also damn well have the light to be scared of, too.
Preferred Environment: Radiant Fields.
Environment Threat Level: Extremely Severe.
Environment Stats: Dry. Warm. Fantastic. Rare. Wide, light spaces with blank-white rock. While dotted around Terraria, they are usually high in the skies, almost near space. Some might be located near especially mystical regions, like the Jungles.
Other Names: Light Nymphs, Shine Nymphs, White Nymphs, "Lightroom Nymphs."
Affinity: Wind.
Color: (Light) White.
Traditional Costume Weapon: A ring around their left ring fingers, with solid white bands. Enhances their already powerful magic.
Vince's Comment: Yet another Nymph you should just stay like a kilometer away from at all costs.
Sonata's Comment: Unless you're doing some kind of "gonna just date one of every type" thing - which I would say is incredibly racist and weird but my Naked Empire sort of ended up falling victim to that by accident so whatever - you should probably just avoid this one. I wish I could tell you more, but as you could have probably guessed by now (third time's the charm!), every 25th Entry is a doozy of "We don't fucking know."
Tania's Comment: Radiant Nymphs.
Nymphae Radiantes.
Nymphs with the more direct ties to the Light, as Void Nymphs have the most direct ties to the Darkness and Dual Nymphs have the most direct ties to... pure nature? These "ring-wearing" Nymphs elude me and everybody else, including themselves. Even after having four of them cooperatively working with the "Naked Empire," they swear - and we can tell from Psyche Nymph technology that they are being honest - that they have little knowledge of just what their former leaders are doing and what the rings mean. The rings that are "just passed down."
Anyway, Radiant Nymphs appear to have a very loose, weak connection to the Hallow and Candyland, deriving from the same ultimate sort of "force" that grants souls the taint of light, with some kind of connection to the purity of nature.
Closing AN:
End of Part 3, Light Set.
Alright this is one of the most likely chapters to be redone, since I want to cover the Pillars in RTLD proper and... well, I wanted to have this chapter set during the Pillars and I got a little carried away and had two of them be destroyed. So maybe this would be rewritten to just take place when this starts? Either way though, once the Radiant Nymph comes in the chapter might honestly be the same for the most part.
Also I actually did die in yesterday's Isaac Daily... but I got Guppy's Collar'd back by sheer RNG. I swear if I lose my Daily Streak on October once this is done and behind me I'm going to be mad, having the Sheldon avatar through the whole month and only losing it when I stop having a story that updates every day.
Now here's the final bonus until the last day:
"What. The. Fuck." Sonata said, walking in front of a couch that Tania excitedly sat on. Sonata also had three bowls of popcorn set up. And an assortment of other snacks for everybody else. "No, no, no. How have you never watched a porno in your 500 year life? I thought the whole 'hundreds year old virgin' was just a creepy fantasy of control freaks?"
"Well, I have seen art that would be considered porn - bless Stefano -" answered Tania, "and I have had a lot of sexual experience, but I have never sat through an entire porno movie from beginning to end."
"That's gonna change tonight. Come on, we beat your biggest baddie! Let's do this!"
"The Moon Lord is 'my' biggest baddie, but you and Vince both have ones of your own. You have Lindsey."
"...So does that leave me with this 'real' King Slime?" A completely naked Vince asked, looking disgusted.
"Yeah." Said Sonata. "Not good, sorry. You don't have a life-long rival, so here, random blob. Anyway, let's get this!"
She got it all set up. Of course plundering the entire planet for treasure, slaying monsters, getting a solid platinum coin from Cthulhu's corpse alone - that meant they were able to afford a pretty nice TV. All 78 of the Naked Empire's "main fighters" gathered about in their viewing room.
Speaking of 78 yeah all of them shared the 'base' so it was fancy but crowded, a collaborative effort.
The porno began with a certain brunette middle-aged white man walking down an alley with a can of beer in his hand...
Sonata's pupils shrank to oblivion and she cracked a downright deranged-looking grin.
Vince sprang up from the couch and pointed. "OH MY GOD IS THIS THAT LEGENDARY KING OF THE HILL HANK SELFCEST H-ANIMATION?! THANK YOU, SONATA! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!"
She ran to the TV, shut it off, and ejected the video. "I'll be right back."
Sonata jumped through their closed window and ran like hell to the Jungle Pylon.
Every single Nymph that remained in the room, regardless of color, temperature, or humidity, was staring at him.
"You realize if Sonata hadn't mixed up porn with the King of the Hill set she gave everybody else, she would be making fun of you for that for weeks-"
"Because it happened to you when you blurted out how hot you think Hank is?"
Tania sighed.
"Yes..."
Vince took a breath in and clapped his hands. "Well, we got some extra time, want me to give you some pointer tips for your first time watching with us?"
Tania sighed, leaning to him.
"I like venturing in to the unknown and seeing what life has to offer...
"...But this is Sonata so yes. I mean, I thought she was putting on the King of the Hill fanmade porn animation too."
"If the story gets weird, don't try to ask questions."
"Hm?"
"She likes animated porn and those try to have a plot but those plots fall apart if you try to bring actual logic in to them. Questioning logic just makes things awkward. She can get really territorial over the couch, too, so if you have a spot you'll like, she might subconciously try putting her foot over to you. She uh, gets really invested in the film a lot - and this is NOT a thing with me, the other Nymphs have tried pleasing her, none of them could while she's fixated, so don't be surprised if her handwork is half-effort. Nymphs, you can verify, right?"
Most of them were still staring at him. But they were beginning to stop. Conveniently, the shock wore off right as Sonata returned, with the same 'I accidentally left the oven on in a house full of babies' expression she had when she realized her grave mistake.
"Okay I got the actual porno right here let's watch it together now! The professor thankfully previewed the video himself before showing it to his evening pop culture study class, but still. He also might send some thank you letters... I'll handle it all."
...
Alright. Things started off okay as Sonata's stunned-ness faded. As what Vince was used to when it came to Sonata's picks, it was another animated fantasy, but that one starred a woman with... pale blonde hair roaming around in the nude. Armed with a fancy blood red sword. Sonata shuffled around uncomfortably at the sight of her, but otherwise nothing was raised.
She banged a Human man to get his 'Crystal of Unlocking,' and during that whole segment she, along with going on an essay about how the Three Creators formed their world, explained that she was an Oread. Once she was done with him and Tania seemed warmed up enough to start climbing on Vince kiss his neck, the adventurer was ambushed by a Slime.
A vermilion-colored Slime.
"HALT!" He shouted. "The Big Slime you had fought previously was not the actual Big Slime! I am! The Real Big Slime! State your name, warrior!"
"They call me Lizzy the End!"
"Well Lizzy the end! I suggest that we do a battle! A SEX battle! OH YEAH BUM BUM BA-DUM!"
Oh.
...At least the sex was pretty well animated. By the standards of the usual things out of that medium. The other Nymphs were getting in to their own various groupings and having a massive orgy, but the trio of Vince, Sonata, and Tania sat uncomfortably. Even Tania's embrace of Vince lessoned a bit after seeing a fake porn version of one of her legendary enemies molding penises (yes, plural) out of his slime.
The dealbreaker was another such enemy showing up. A nude, gray and teal humanoid with tentacles for hair. While the Real Big Slime and Lizzy the End were still going at it.
"Hello there!" He said. "I am Catheeloo, god of evil! I smell that you have a Crystal of Unlocking! Beat me in a sex battle, and you can keep it! Otherwise, I will steal it from you, and use it to seal myself away from the world!"
"You wouldn't dare, Catheeloo!" Said Lizzy. "Not if I team up with the Real Big Slime and form... form a threesome!"
Okay that was getting too awkward to watch. Tania clicked it off.
"Aw, what?" Sonata asked. "What happened?"
"The characters reminded me - us, I mean come on - of Cthulhu, Lindsey, and True King Slime. I'm sorry. But really, is making Cthulhu porn even legal? Can we sue? Could he have sued?"
The other 75 Nymphs were still going at it. Only Fulgra really even seemed to notice that the TV was off. "Aw..." she said.
"I mean, yeah, but... we can shrug that off, right?"
Vince chuckled. "Maybe after Lindsey is dead, but for now, no."
"Hrm. I'll just put something else on. Or..."
Tania shrugged. "This is my first time coming to one of your 'events,' maybe we don't... need a big presentation?"
Sonata already put a hand on one of her thighs. "Yeah, you make a good point. We can start out simple and ease you in."
Vince's hand went to Tania's other thigh, getting a good blush out of her from the double-teaming efforts. "Sounds good to me."
"Also the porno was kinda cheesy to begin with anyway." Said Sonata. "Tania, you can have your big porno-orgy with us some other day."
That 'other day' would actually turn out to be the next day. But whatever.
Vince and Sonata started by giving Tania a nice welcoming sandwich. Sonata with her back on the couch, touching around a Tania lying on top of her, with Vince atop them both getting heavy with the Dryad right away. After he fired his silver bullets - which embarrassingly didn't take so long, but he was a little tense hyping his first actual time with Tania - Vince decided to let Sonata take the lead and leaned back against the couch to watch them make out, joining their legs together. He'd give Tania the occassional touch to help heat her up, but Sonata still gave before Tania did. And, to finally give Tania her first explosion, Sonata and Vince called a complete truce and used teamwork with their hands.
That and just a little more fun later, and Sonata was once again fast asleep, that time on the floor. Because Vince was packing some serious syrup, she also looked like she had binged on vanilla ice cream by the time her and Vince got most of their urges out of their systems.
The orgy was still going on around them, if dying down a little bit, but Tania and Vince stayed lying on the central couch, still awake, Tania occasionally brushing a hand through Vince's hair, Vince still exploring her with his hands. She was a lot cleaner than Sonata was, mainly for being a little more modest, and taking the occasional break to use a washcloth. The actual group-cleanoff would be once the whole thing was over, but for now, the two wanted a little time to properly enjoy cooling off. Their Nuclear Nymph threw a blanket over the two, letting Vince get cozier at the cost of not being able to look at as much of Tania's breathtaking body.
Tania kissed him on the neck. "You're pretty potent." She said.
"If you keep talking like that and kissing me like that... I think I'm gonna, well, 'have a really potent moment' again." He said.
"That's fine. Let your seed flow should it need to."
"My guy is right up against your girl. If you keep shuffling around like that, it will."
She wiggled around faster. "Sorry. With the curse finally lifted, I was thinking a lot about reproduction. Even though I know it doesn't work that way with you."
"But Humans and Nymphs can't-"
"I wasn't asking you to be a father."
"Oh thank fuck. There's no way I'd be able to - I mean, I don't know a thing about raising a child, and- babies cry twenty four hours a day, teenagers rebel and get depressed, adults leave right as they grow on you, kids... are okay if they're not brats like Sammy-"
"Vince. I wanted to get a few things about the rebirth of the Dryads. Our reproduction is complicated, especially without another Dryad partner, I would have to rely on planting or mating with the Nymphs."
They both looked at Sonata. She had since spread her legs out very wide, and was snoring very loudly, her drool also staining the carpet.
"...I'll think about it tomorrow." Tania said, sitting up, sitting on him, giving him a gorgeous view of her tits that he still hasn't gotten used to seeing even after adventuring with her topless self for so long, and with her huge ass teasing him. "In the meantime, we've stopped one eldritch horror. We should enjoy ourselves and take a rest."
Vince chuckled. "Everybody else using their lanterns while we're the ones throwing the real celebrations."
"I spoke with Edwin, he said the towns were thinking about having lantern nights whenever they feel like it from now on. And also still if we beat whatever new threat stands before us."
"So does that mean..." He smirked at her. But that faded. "Well, I mean, we hadn't had orgies every time we killed a strong monster."
"We should have them more often. They're fun." Tania whispered. "And one more thing..." Then she leaned back down, pulled the sheet over her back, touched her chest to his, rubbed their chests together, got really close to bringing her hand to a certain part of him that felt aching, white hot, and ready to downright nuke her at that point with its lust, and she whispered even softer.
"Hank Hill's ass." She said.
Kaboom. Tania gave Vince a light shoulder massage and kissed him on the lips.
"I was this close to running off and using my hands, thanks." He said, following that with a loud sigh of satisfaction.
"Heehee..." Tania said. "I love it when you hit your peak on me."
"Even that one time we promissed not to talk about-"
"Vince. We're together now. Of course I feel comfortable talking about it again. It's a cute story. And speaking of cute," she winked, "I'm sure I will enjoy playing with the extra seed you've given me."
Below, Sonata blubbered in her sleep:
"Huhzawhat someone said Hank?! Ah shit I got the wrong movie to the wrong..." and she snored loudly.
Bonus Closing AN:
Yeah I took a joke of that from South Park.
But what I am proud of was that this was technically a really weird way to "introduce" not one, but (ignoring the "preview" thing at the end of Chapter 1 of Teasers - then again that's arguably less... "bonus-y" than this so whatever) two major villains. With porno parodies. And technically three since (again aside from the Teasers bonus) Moon Lord wasn't in this until then, he didn't show up in the chapter proper.
Anyway, yet again, Part 4 will begin with a "return to normalcy," so significantly less horny than that. Basically you can think of the story itself having super long bouts of post-nut clarity after getting horny in the part finales. I think? Nah, that's a bad metaphor.