One-Shot: From the Waters

== Continuity ==
This one-shot takes place immediately after WoDaD Session 35. 
== Player Characters ==
* Peschemaer the Guardian (he/him, AKA Pesce) is a spectre of Shar with gold-tipped horns and golden facial features, charged with protecting the other PCs.
* Ethanial the Gunblazer (he/him, do NOT call him Ethan) is not the most pleasant guy to be around. He's always in a bad mood and yet at the same time seems to be permanently sharing some sort of joke with himself. He's human... enough, at least, but his red-black eyes make people uncomfortable for some reason. He also has an array of weapons including two 'guns' he claimed to have made himself, and they are always on his person.
* Aqua the Drenched (they/them) is a water genasi, their blue-green hair looks constantly wet and flops in front of their left eye, they have light blue skin and are wearing just the wettest looking clothes but it looks as if a wave has crashed onto them and has become clothes. They have a longbow on their back.
== Recap ==
Off the southern coast of Meracyinth is Mt. Apelpisia, an ominous mountain with an ever-present storm cloud riddled with vibrant colors. The Apelpisia Watch Nightfall Hold is built into an old lighthouse, always on guard against whatever may come from the island mountain and its storm. The three Heroes are on watch when Aqua sees shards of color rain down from that storm cloud into the water, just before something from the water - or perhaps the water itself? - calls for Ethanial to get into the ocean. He starts to wade into the waves as living colors intrude into the Heroes' minds and try to overwhelm them. Peschemaer is able to push back his own colors to keep from being overcome long enough to pull Ethanial out of the water - not before colors start to creep up the Gunblazer's ankles and burn into him. 
Bewildered by what's happening, Aqua tries to get a feel for what's happening. They realize it's not water. It's not even color, that's just how their mortal brains are comprehending it. It is pure, unfiltered magic. Ethanial uses his own magic to comprehend it a bit better but just gets a garbled message about being away from the deep, endless blue. All the while, Peschemaer has been pulled into the water and is being overtaken by the magic, burning away at his very essence. Aqua bends the water to lift the spectre out but the magic has latched onto him now, so a corporeal form resembling Pesce but with overly-saturated colors bursts out after him. At least this form can be harmed. 
The battle begins between the magic Something and the Heroes. Something uses a trident made of colors along with alien sensations which overwhelm the mind to a damaging degree, while the Heroes use spells, a bow, and a gun. After taking a good bit of damage, the Something fades away, its last feelings being of homesickness for the blue. Before it completely disappears, the last motes of color swirl together onto the beach and form a portal which dumps out a burnt woman. Selvara has arrived.
== Trivia ==
* There was an ongoing subplot regarding Peschemaer's divine mission, which was to get Ethanial to take a joke and Aqua to learn about the wonders of dry socks.
* The Keeper, Loxley, was feeling silly during play.