Nymphlopedia
Entry 88: Bubble Nymphs
Yep. The 'bubbling ponds' were exactly what it said, as-was.
A giant pond with very clear waters. And lots of bubbles forming from them. Giant ones, mostly.
A hot spring, but not really... more like some kind of nasty volcanic zone.
"Obsidian Skin Potions would protect you from that, easily." Tania told the other two.
Great. Chug time.
Vince hadn't had that much of a reason to go to Hell lately (Sonata and Tania on the other hand did, for little side projects of theirs), so he didn't have that much experience with chugging on them. And he avoided the lava swimming pool because... well...
Why did Sonata want that? It wasn't even for the Nymphs that live near magma/lava either, she just wanted to make one on her own using magma that no Nymph had as a home.
Dammit. He just realized, Sonata would probably want a pool of boiling water from there too if they managed to make a successful negotiation. Why does she keep adding not-Human-friendly things there...
...Actually, a lot of what Sonata added to their clusterfuck 'all Nymphs represented' area aren't safe for Oreads, either.
...
"Oh, you're those masochistic weirdoes that have been going around talking to Nymphs and making an army of them to... do things?"
So yeah they were under the boiling hot waters, filled with lots of bubbles. Looked fizzy and all. Had a lot of bubble fish - as in, fish made of... what looked like bubbles, complete with being colorless and hard to spot. There were also gigantic bubble sharks. They looked scarier than that sounded. And 'kelp' and the like made of bubbles too. The dirt at the base was rolling around as if some kind of underwater wind storm was blowing everything. And, yeah, a sea green Nymph with bubbles around her wrists was swimming above all three of them, saying the above line.
"You summed us up pretty well!" Said Sonata. "But we're not just random idiots! You know that flash that happened last month? Did you see that?"
She rolled her eyes. "Blind people could see that."
"Yeah, that was Cthulhu dying. We sort of... stopped a powerful monster? We're not just random masochists."
"We did sort of start as them, though..." Vince confessed.
Tania sighed. "Myself included."
"Well, okay. But still, what are you here for?" The Bubble Nymph asked.
"Well first we were just going around the world doing missions and growing my Naked Empire," explained Sonata, "but now we realize that we're actually pretty fucked against Crime Lord Lindsey."
The Bubble Nymph gasped, swimming back. "L-L- ...please don't say her name around here."
"We wanted to get all the help we need. I mean, you or whatever friends you know of or official leaders don't have to jump in the front line if you don't want to, but we'll take anything. A donation, some building help, whatever... we have jobs, and we accept donations. Um, we've just been paying our guys with the donations us three got, I'm not sure if that's proper economics or even legal, but-"
"Have you been going around random places looking for Nymphs and asking them?"
"Yeah to find more obscure Nymph hangouts." Sonata answered. "Most Nymphs don't want to hop on the Internet and talk about it publically. Some do so the flyers and the online ads and stuff got them, but those can only go so far."
"Have you set up a Discord?"
All three of them paused.
"...What's that?" Tania asked.
"You know, using tools from the Hallow, you can make a Crystal System of Discord, or just a Discord for short. It's similar to the Pylons, but for talking instead of warping. Most Nymphs tend to use that to communicate. Two out of three of you are Nymphs, so you'll..." she looked at Tania. Glared at her. "One of you is a Nymph, so you'll have an easy time talking to them without getting kicked off or someone doxxing you and attacking your home base. And Human, since there aren't that many other options, you should probably go there too."
"Ohhhh..." Sonata said. "Shit, I can't believe I didn't think of that! We have a big army of other Nymphs now so it shouldn't be that hard to get them to gather and be like, 'Hey we're a melting pot here all Nymph Variants welcome.'"
"As long as there are Dryads, I don't think 'all Nymph Variants welcome' will ever be a thing. At least for two thousand years."
"I'll be happy to manage it." Said Vince.
"I can still be 'the face' since like she said, most 'loner' 'underground' Nymphs kind of trust me more than either of you two."
"I could be IN." Said Tania.
The three looked at her.
"Information Nature? That is a term, right? If anybody has a problem with using the Hallowed tools, I can tell them."
Bubble Nymphs.
NOT to be confused with Soap Nymphs, these air bubble-makers can provide a breathing supply when venturing through the boiling lakes. Or to cut your breathing supply off, either way.
Preferred Environment: Bubbly Ponds.
Environment Threat Level: Moderate.
Environment Stats: Wet. Very warm. Moderate-fantastic. Uncommon. Extremely hot bodies of water, almost bordering on being hot springs, with a high concentration of oxygen bubbles coming from volcanic vents in the ground. It is possible for most Humans to breathe through these bubbles.
Other Names: Oxygen Nymphs (note from Tania: ?), Boil Nymphs (NOT to be confused with Broil Nymphs), Sizzle Nymphs, "Hotwater Nymphs," "Steam Nymphs."
Affinity: Fire.
Color: Dull Sea Green.
Traditional Costume Weapon: Rings of bubbles around their wrists. Helps them make both liquid bubbles in gasses and gaseous bubbles in liquids. Advanced ones can throw solids in the mix too.
Vince's Comment: ...You'd think that the farther you'd go in the list, the harder they'd be to fight because that's kind of how it works in the movies, but no. Taking a Gills Potion can mess up most of their strategies. Unless they're one of the elite kind.
Sonata's Comment: They can basically make submarines which is awesome. Having sex with one of them in a bubble deep in a lake, also cool. Until a fucking undersea behemoth shows up from below and - yeah.
Tania's Comment: Bubble Nymphs.
Nymphae Bulla.
This Nymph Variant makes more sense if you view them as holding powers over the "boundaries" of states of matter, usually gasses and liquids, as their powers are based on a "change" of some way of matter. This usually manifests in the form of bubbles. They can also, to lesser degrees, have control over the same material as it is changing states of matter naturally, or highly advanced Bubble Nymphs can manipulate where two different materials meet. "Bubbles" is something of an understatement name, especially with the confusion regarding Soap Nymphs. They report needing the most effort to maximize their powers - even more than my type or the Oreads - yet with that power, their potential is almost limitless.
Closing AN:
Day 27 is done! Wow, three days left to go... you're probably expecting me to say something like "I can't believe all that time whisked by" but, no, this feels like I've been working on it forever.
Also... three NPCs in this day. (Not counting Tania.) Sophia and Ada in one chapter, Mollie in another. ...Is this a record? I'm not sure. I mean, Entry 16 alone had a bunch bathing together, but... still.
No I don't have a Discord by the way and don't plan to make one in the near future. I'd rather not have to try managing that.
Honestly this was yet another chapter where I was cobbling together random shit almost. I mean, I like the idea of a "bubble themed biome" because hell I like bubbles, and I wanted to make this distinct from "soap," but I couldn't come up with that much to actually fill this out. So, dumb Internet jokes. Which may or may not become outdated.
Also shit I almost forgot Isaac's anniversary is coming tomorrow. I've said this before and I'll say it again, a lot of things I like came out around September.