Nymphlopedia
Entry 82: Vibration Nymphs
"I swear!" Sonata said. "There really is a giant stack of rubber bands around! Or, it's a species! A really annoying monster type!"
Vince was (purposefully, it was a more convenient way to get around) jumping around the very bouncy floors of what otherwise seemed like a normal forest, if with a faded gold tint to it. Tania was trying to walk normally. Sonata, somehow, was the one actually walking normally.
"I do believe you-" Tania began.
"I don't." Vince quickly cut in.
"-But this will need to be looked in to later. Now, we have to be economical."
Sonata rolled her eyes. "Why am I even with you? I can't money." That was neither a typo on my part nor a stroke on hers.
"You're the face of the Empire and we need a good face." Vince kind of said that through a sigh. It got a grin out from Sonata.
Tania got flicked on the back of her head by something. When she turned, nothing was there, except the quickly-disappearing trail of something gold.
The Dryad took her Nebula magic-infused staff in one hand and, very fittingly for someone trying to recruit a rainbow of people, Last Prism in the other.
"What is this?!" Tania asked. "An ambush?! I thought we were going to speak about trade relations between us and the Vibration Network!
"Yeah no..." a quiet, threatening voice was heard from below them. "This is an ambush."
Teleport flashes and sparkles appeared, and suddenly they were surrounded by a huge number of faded goldish Nymphs.
Just a few of which seemed to be hula-hooping with giant rubber band-like objects. Which were weapons, by the way, they weren't playing around.
"...Okay so Vince, they redirect energy and stuff, so physical arrows aren't that good." Sonata said. "Switch to your Holy Arrows."
"You know I always do."
One of them stomped on the ground in just the right way, sending weird, body-warming vibrations through the ground and to the Trio.
It didn't seem like much, but it was enough to make them all drop their weapons. Causing a triple-gasp.
The one who attacked the floor, who was also the one who said it was an ambush, said the following: "Do you really think you'll win us over by killing Cthulhu? You just fought him for the same reason you Dryads and Dryad-sympathizers fought him in the past. Because it's your lives in danger, and not the world's."
"Like any of you are any less selfish!" Sonata said.
"That's not the point I want to make!" Tania told her. "If I tried going with that, I would be telling them I was selfish in the first place! But I'm not!"
"We do fight for our biomes," the Vibration Nymph just cut Tania off and ignored her entirely, "but at least we admit it and don't try to act like saviors and friends of humanity."
"I mean... Tania was a savior of humanity just now."
They lowered their weapons. The ones hula-hooping also stopped.
"...We can talk about it." Another Vibration Nymph said.
"Just... not about economics, okay?" Sonata said. "I get paid by killing monsters, that's all I know. The nastier the baddie, the more money they drop."
Vibration Nymphs.
Shake, shake, shake. These are Nature Spirits that can shake you like a soda can, and make you burst like a shaken can.
Preferred Environment: Vibration Forest.
Environment Threat Level: Calm. (Albeit annoying.)
Environment Stats: Slightly dry. Warm. Moderate-Fantastic. Uncommon. Gold-tinted warm forests with soft, almost "rubbery" floors that can bounce well. They can carry vibrations easily through them.
Other Names: Workout Nymphs, Exercise Nymphs, Bounce Nymphs, "Rubber Nymphs" (technically not accurate).
Affinity: Fire.
Color: Dull Gold.
Traditional Costume Weapon: Rubber band-like materials around their wrists, akin to armbands. Helps with them to "deflect" both energy and physical attacks, and to use various warmth-related powers.
Vince's Comment: Be sharp. Both figuratively and literally. Anything with any bluntless, and they'll just reflect it. Boom, just like that.
Sonata's Comment: I wound up surrounded by a lot of them when I was 262, and I got super nervous. In a panic, I made a vibrator joke. It worked. I know the times have changed in over 200 years, but still, I think if you want an icebreaker with them, give 'em a good vibrator joke.
Tania's Comment: Vibration Nymphs.
Nymphae Vibratio.
These are Nymphs and Satyrs that specialize in the art of direction and redirection. They have a form of a seismic sense that enables them to tell how things vibrate, a very useful innate power. They are great earthquake predictors. Their cultures tend to value exercise, mainly related to cardiovascular workouts, similar to Peak Nymphs.
Closing AN:
Yeah when I wrote out the original draft I had kind of forgotten about Peak Nymphs also having a vaguely similar "excercise" theme so I hope this doesn't feel too redundant... theming-wise. In terms of the short stories though I'm pretty sure they're different.
Also in terms of "doing the stories early," for yesterday I just did the very beginnings of this and the last chapter... I hope that's not super apparent or anything. Expect this one to get an expansion or something. I mean, even all three Comments are super short.