Episode 14: All You Need Is... A Yellow Submarine

<-- Back to A List of Episodes

August 19, 2020

This episode began with the players having just noticed a meteor shower overhead. It grew brighter and brighter, covering the dark sky in streaks of bright purple and green. Muud began to see a figure silhouetted in the light walking towards him in the sky. A voice echoed from the figure: "I see you come closer to us, are you finally on your way?" A bright flash of light, and a large meteor dropped from the figure and landed in the ocean a mile or two to the east. It caused a tsunami that began to rush its way towards the ships. Ridgely took charge and angled the boat towards the wave. The boats kept climbing and climbing, ultimately reaching the crest of the wave where it went airborne and shook the crews of both ships. Rhistel lost his grip and fell into the sea along with a couple gnomes and a human from The Watchers' Eye. Rhistel, with the help of the human, saved the gnomes from drowning until the ships could turn around and rescue them.

A glowing lit up the ocean where the meteor had made contact, and the crew of The Flying Boulder decided to go explore the impact site while the Watchers' Eye waited a few hundred yards away. Upon reaching the glowing water, they found that the meteor was deep below them in the ocean. They made some attempts to swim down, but were unable to get deep enough. Rhistel changed shape into a dolphin and explored the depths, finding a mountain top with a temple atop it and the glowing meteor nearby. He swam up to tell the others what he'd seen. That was until Muud heard another voice saying to come below - at that point he dove and pushed his body beyond its normal limits. At the brink of drowning, he took in a deep lung-full of water, but found he could breathe. He dove below and found the same temple Rhistel described. He went inside and found a chest with three objects inside: an ornate shovel, a smooth round stone, and a piece of chest armor. Muud held them each, realizing he could only carry one, and decided to take the stone. He left the temple, and immediately the door closed and in a bright flash of light the temple and mountaintop disappeared. He suddenly could no longer breathe in the water and tried to swim to the top but could not quite make it - the group had to pull his unconscious body to the surface via a rope they had tied around his waste.

The group healed Muud and forced the water from his lungs. Upon regaining his consciousness, he found that the round, smooth stone (about the size of a bowling ball) was attached to his open hand. He could not free himself from it, with no discernible seam between the hand and the stone. The others were scared of this affliction that had taken to Muud, and decided to separate him - throw him in the brig to observe.