Nymphlopedia
Entry 100: Ashen Nymphs
Beginning AN:
THE FINAL VARIANT ENTRY!
Alright. It was practically formula at that point.
Vince, Sonata, and Tania all stood at a certain point in the Jungle Surface. Tania looked especially irate, impatiently digging her toes in to the mud. Almost looking like she was kicking the ground.
A red and gray small round... robotic... drone... thing shaped like a saucer flew out from a crack in the ground, then shone red lights at the group. Sonata rolled her eyes.
"Oh wow. We're in the Jungle, again. And some strange stuff appears around us, again. To warp us to another strange spot. Again." She said.
"I mean we weren't 'warped' to the Dual Forest..." Said Vince.
"Identity confirmed." A rather direct and harsh voice came from the drone device to say. "Welcome. Vincent. Sonata. ...Tania."
It then shot gray lasers at all of them, and when they hit, they were teleported elsewhere.
Yawn.
...
Okay, the area tucked away within the Jungle that they were sent to was a giant metallic mess of gray wires and the like. Some broken machines, glowing red and whatnot.
"Alright." Sonata said. "This looks cool at least..."
A massive robot, in the very rough shape of a giant naked woman, emerged from the scrap. Its red eyes lit, and it stared down at the Trio. Only Tania really prepared herself, taking out her staff. Vince just stayed flat-faced, while Sonata sighed.
"Hi." Sonata told the pilot of that mech. "We heard about you. The Mountain Nymphs told us a lot."
"...Oh." The pilot inside said. "...I know you know I'm not here to fight you. I just wanted to show off with this mechanism."
"It does look cool but..." Said Vince. "I mean... the first time we get dragged through a strange biome near the Jungle, it was interesting. The fourth... we've kind of just gotten used to anything being thrown at us by now."
A clicking noise came from the face of the mech. It opened, pouring out steam, and from it, a gray Nymph wearing nothing but a single ring. She lept out and sighed.
"Well, okay." She said. "I'm here."
"We're also fought mechs before." Sonata added.
"I know." Said the Ashen Nymph. "So... do you want to... use my robot?"
"Well it would be helpful to have something like that-" Tania began. "Wait! We should look in to the Radiant, Shadow, and Dual sections and embassies... if we could just fuse their projects together..."
She turned around and pretty much began writing on an imaginary blackboard. Drawing shapes in the air with her finger.
"If we're gonna take a mech to Lindsey, I'm in!" Sonata said with a smile.
The Ashen Nymph just tilted her head and rested it on her hand. "I'm just disappointed... I thought I would have this big, fancy introduction that would scare or at least unsettle you..."
"Hey," Said Vince. "Sonata and I still scare easily for the tools we have. Maybe you'll do that eventually."
"Maybe I will..."
Ashen Nymphs.
The queens and occasional kings of technology. They can turn a single motherboard in to a mothership. Sort of. Regardless, enemies to them will get blasted.
Preferred Environment: Ashen Techforests.
Environment Threat Level: Extremely Severe.
Environment Stats: Dry. Hot. Fantastic. Rare. Gray wastelands that have been known to gather metal and various "electronics" in to themselves. Almost everything is made of an "organic metal" of sorts, with processing chips.
Other Names: Dull Nymphs, Gray Nymphs, Technology Nymphs, Mechanical Nymphs, "Robot Nymphs," "Cyborg Nymphs."
Affinity: Fire.
Color: (Dull) Gray.
Traditional Costume Weapon: A single ring on their right index fingers, visually appears gray. Helps enhance their already powerful raw magic abilities, especially relating to technological creations.
Vince's Comment: Never use anything technological or robotic. They can turn that against you. And no vehicles, either. Good lord, trying to drive around their zones in a car is a bad idea. So, magic or non-metal gear will- Just... really, stay away from them in general.
Sonata's Comment: Damn I really want to write a big fancy entry but all I can think about is all the rust and stuff in the air, making me cough.
Um... I do have this to say though. What the fuck is a technology Nymph I mean doesn't that go against the whole "nature" thing Nymphs stand for? It's like, imagine if there was some AI with forest powers. Wouldn't make any sense at all.
Tania's Comment: Ashen Nymphs.
Nymphae Canus.
Approaching the end of our First Edition is a Nymph that many, including Sonata as you have seen above, may find contradictory. It's easier to think of them as the opposites of Dual Nymphs. This is not true either - again no Nymph Variant is truly the "opposite" of another except for Dryads and Oreads. Dual Nymphs take that which was made with the world itself, Ashen Nymphs take that which can be formed from the world. A sort of past and future. Technology, the artificial, these can be seen as "refined nature?" But that just begs the question as to what nature even is...
...Their skills with oil are supurb.
Closing AN:
End of Part 4, Dull Set.
DRYAD ENTRY COMING UP NEXT! DRYAD HYPE!
Oh yeah, this chapter reminded me of something. Yeah, originally Dual Nymphs were like this sort of "unofficial self-appointed Dryad replacement" as mentioned on their thing, hanging out in the Jungle, which is why the Trio went through the Jungle first. I forgot about this when writing the Shadow and Radient Nymph chapters. Instead I went with more of a "theme" of them being in the Jungle, the "special biome," first before heading to the "weird and special biomes" of the other zones. Well... this chapter was kind of poking fun at that stuff.
And sorry for this "big 100 last final" entry besides the Dryads being short (and it's the shortest of the "twenty-fifth numbered" entries)... it's kind of part of the joke, and since this day also "shares" another big chapter, Dryads of course, and that I'm finishing up Romancing the Last Dryad... yeah, all those were excuses to make this more half-assed than the Dual Nymph, Shadow Nymph, and Radiant Nymph chapters.
"What's the difference between them and Digital Nymphs?" Digital: Holograms, virtual stuff, Internet. Ashen: Robots, hard metal, etc.
Anyway horny bonus. And it won't be the last one, I'll tell you that...
One. Hundred.
Well, technically one hundred and two, but 100 was a nicer, neater number, so they decided to not count Oreads, the Last Dryad, Humans, or... whatever ally races would be a part of the Empire.
Right, so just before heading off to take on the Keys, they decided to celebrate with - well yeah Vince, Sonata, Tania, and the 100 Variant Warriors all decided to just throw yet another titanic orgy of the Empire's. The theme?
Pools.
It was a mass skinny dipping. Sonata was having way too much fun specifically splashing the non-aquatic Nymph variants, swimming around with the speed of a missile, rather than making out with anybody under water or by the poolside. Or in the hot tub, she specifically avoided the nice, fancy lil hot tub they painstakingly built.
That was why Vince and Tania kept to themselves over at the hot tub.
Tania was already giving Vince a furious riding down below the bubbles. From the point of view of the onlookers, it just looked like they were hugging, and shifting around a lot. That was still enough to... make quite a lot of the Nymphs get turned on and go off with their own little projects.
"I-I'm..." Was all Vince could say by that point.
He threw his head back, wrapped his arms around Tania, and groaned loudly. Tania got just a little more flushed than she already was, her smile growing, and she licked her lips.
Sonata finally grew bored of her swim tours and left the pool, walking over to the hot tub. She lied on her stomach and planted her hands on the concrete around it, eye kept on Vince and Tania.
"How's it going?" Sonata asked.
"That was the first time I have ever had sex in a hot tub." Vince replied. "...To completion, I mean."
"It's my fourth." Tania said.
"Six-thousanth and ninety-first." Was Sonata's claim. She got some looks in confusion, especially by Vince, so she... 'clarified,' "I mean, that was the last time I had sex in a hot tub. To completion. Not that I'm counting this as- nevermind."
Tania leaned over and kissed Vince's cheek. Vince replied in kind - which Tania mistakenly took as the invitation to start rubbing against him again.
"T-Tania! I unloaded four times already! I- I'd like to rest a little!" Vince said.
"Oh!" Tania popped off of him. "I'm sorry!"
Sonata sighed. "So you drained him before any of us could have some fun with him? That's a little selfish."
Tania swam around so that her back was facing another end of the hot tub. She put her hands behind her back. "Want to have a go at me instead?" She said.
"Wait yeah on second thought you're way better than Vince."
Sonata plunged in-
"OW! HOT! HOT! HOT! That's a shock from being in the cold pool for so long!"
And once she got used to the heat right away, she and Tania had their own going about, pushing their soaking wet, flushed bodies against each other, their tongues exploring the other's mouth.
"What happened to you man?!" Sonata asked. "You're the biggest prude I know outside the bedroom!" She looked around. "The metaphorical bedroom. But in the bedroom - again, metaphorical - you're just like..."
"Unlike you but just like our bodies not long ago, I tend to keep my sex life under wraps."
"That thing about 'our bodies' is clever but it acknowledges the fact that you used to wear clothes. So fuck you."
"That's what you're doing to me right now."
"...I'm supposed to be the clever one! You're the brains!"
"It takes brains to be clever."
"Curseit Tania!" Sonata laughed.
They went back to making out while Vince felt too exhausted to really move. He got the back of his head bumped by the ass of their Jagged Nymph warrior, who barely even noticed, and was basically being dined out by a Meadow Nymph friend. Seeing all those rainbows of Nymphs, with the 'big two' sharing the tub with him front and center, getting heavier and heavier...
Vince looked down, feeling himself roaring to life below the water. "Come on little dude..." He said. "You did your thing four times already, stop wanting another one. Oh... you're killing me..."
...
It was a long and busy orgy, and when it ended, the Trio happily went over to their giant pile of 'Business Work.' Papers, notepads, of fucking course a computer and some smart phones, the like.
"Okay." Said Tania. "We should consult the Nymph guide on what to do next. I can't believe we never did that before, just going off of Mollie's loose entries."
"Yeah!" Sonata said. "Where is that book?"
"...There's a book?" Asked Vince.
Hm.
Okay... it took a bit of digging around... searching...
Long story short, you read the introduction. There wasn't really anything about any other type of Nymph. That the Trio could find anywhere.
"N... nobody?" Tania asked. "Nobody in HISTORY wrote a comprehensive guide about Nymphs?! NOBODY?! Not even THEM?!"
She flashed green and stomped on the ground, hard enough to make flowers grow through their floor.
"HEY!" Vince shouted.
It took Tania a while to notice that. When she did, she took a step back. "Sorry! I'll handle it! I- we- I should have also- my duty would be- how..."
She sat down and put a hand on her head, which was pounding.
Sonata was just laughing her ass off.
"...It's very important to have a guide to the Nymphs." Tania said. "They are the summation of everything nature, in each stage and step."
Sonata shrugged. "What if we make one? Or would that be stealing cultu-"
Tania lit up again, headache gone. "Yes! Yes, absolutely! Let's make one! And we can have the Naked Empire help out too! Vince?"
Vince shrugged. "Can I bitch about how much danger they put me in over the years even though I'm being hypocritical since I like going there in the first place?"
"Absolutely!" Tania cheered.
Sonata pointed at Vince with a smirk. "And don't you fucking dare go nice and sentimental on me when you talk in the inevidable Oread Entry! I want you to be HARSH! We're total bitches and proud of it! I want the world to know that!"
Bonus Closing AN:
Anyway, Dryad up next! One more time, DRYAD HYPE!