The Gods' Sea

*The Gods' Sea* is the title of the twelfth and final episode of the fourth season of The Numen Swell and the forty eighth and final session of the entire series.

This session was played on September 22nd, 2019

## The Gods' Sea

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Matt Christie, Richie Maynard, Graeme McEneany, Dani Morrison, Kyle Muller

## Plot

The Final Odyssey into the center of The Swell.

## Synopsis

Dex is actively attempting to kill Sahge despite the “parlay” the Sahuagin attempted to call for. Mikey tries to stop them but realizes it is in vain so he plans to just turn the ship into the storm and continue his mission, completely forgetting about his friends on Benki. Ardyn spots the apparatus and believes they could use it to their advantage so Mikey gets the ship close enough to it to jump down to it and get in, leaving with Sahge and allowing the Treant to do whatever Dex wants it to. Thomas and the others arrive at Ke Ani and seek out a ship to get them to Toke, unaware of the others just a few days out. Tamaa asks Thomas if he would like to be “put out of his misery” but the others don’t find it appropriate at this moment. Plus, they need him to steer… with his feet… since he has no arms. They manage their own and make it across to Toke without any problems, remarkably. Thomas heads to the Classy Lassies for a drink and finds Dex. The man is shocked to find him off the Cove but Dex just laughs at the no-armed man and goes back to wooing the woman next to him. It turns out to be none other than Alexandra Montgomery, the eldest child of Mad Monty. She is there with her fleet to work for Dex but he is more interested in the sex. Which they have. After the unprotected love making, she shows him and Thomas, as well as the others, Her fleet. They have numbers, now they need the fight.

Mikey and Sahge catch up while they learn how to properly pilot the apparatus. Sahge apologizes for leaving Mikey but knows that the Armadillo crew always causes problems and he tried to get away from that. It ended up worse for him so he’s back to make amends and wants to start by introducing Mikey to someone he met recently. They arrive at Abasho’Kobezi. Of course, this bothers Mikey but he trusts Sahge who leads him to the palace. They notice quickly that no one is present. That’s because on the south coast of the island, the Grimoire arrives. The Hadozee are fighting for their island. Sahge thanks Mikey for being the only person to truly be nice to him in his life. He is a monster after all. He then tells the boy to go meet with his contact and he will help the locals fend off the ghosts. He leaves. Mikey finds the contact. A Female hadozee who has identical eyes to Sonney. He immediately understands who she is and they speak. Her name is Ilanga and she is Sonney’s mother. Mikey is saddened by the revelation and informs her of Sonney’s fate. He then shows her the half of the letter he has. She reads it briefly and her eyes light up. She tells him to find the people he trusts most and keep them close. This day will be enlightening. He thanks her for her knowledge, despite not understanding it completely, and heads off to fight the spirits as well because… He feels like that’s the way this has to go. Meanwhile, the fleet is also arriving by Abasho’Kobezi, having been led towards the Swell by Dex anyway and it happened to be on the way. Yay! The fight grows to a full-blown battle and the living are doing a fantastic job at surviving. Unfortunately, it isn’t without casualties including Shimo, Jikelele, and the last of Tamaa’s children. Yet still, they appear to be winning. Dread sends a flurry of bolts at both the land and the ships. Mikey and Sahge are dropped so Chiens and Ardyn get off the ship and head inland to help them while Dex decides to split and seemingly run away. Booker Dread retreats deeper into the Swell, killing Ardyn and taking Mikey with him once again.

Mikey awakens on the Grimoire once again. Sitting across from him is Booker Dread. Without a thought he jumps up and attempts to stab him. It obviously doesn’t do anything. Dread quietly reminds him that one way or another he will get what he desires and that involves getting Mikey and the Pieces of Eight to the center of the Swell. Mikey eyes Orville’s gear on the floor including the whip so he tosses the coin at Dread who begins to convulse and split from the physical body. Mikey grabs the Whip and lashes it at the Spirit, evaporating it. The body begins to shift back into its original form and Jack Burrows returns to his senses. Mikey is glad to have an “Ally” again but without Dread the ship begins to plummet to the sea. They don’t have time for pleasantries so they have to get off the ship. Unfortunately, Mikey is still hurt from the last battle and passes out the second he hits the water. Burrows gets him back onto the ship, which survived the fall, and gets him inside. Burrows takes a second to get his motor skills back by searching the ship for the one thing that matters, Whiskey. He doesn’t find any but does find something better, the seven coins. He wakes Mikey back up and asks him to catch him up. The others are on Abasho’Kobezi, feeling like they lost. Tamaa decides for the army that without Dex, she is in charge but the others do not agree. Sahge attempts to offer her his God Arc, knowing it will devour her but her latent abilities are stronger so she ends up overpowering it and taking control of the sword. This causes the army to start attacking her in a mass mutiny. She is in a fury from losing her children so she swings back with the arc, killing dozens. Sahge and Chiens run to avoid her rage as Thomas attempts to get the unconscious Alexandra away as well. The horde surrounds Tamaa as she continues to decimate them. It is unclear who won. Mikey tells Burrows as much of what he missed as he can and even brings up that he is a pirate lord now. As he shows him the coin, he realizes the number on it has not changed so he asks Jack to look at his coin. He reveals that he is still number one but Burrows doesn’t care in the moment because they are stranded in the storm and it’s beginning to hail. They are getting pulled further and further in. Mikey understands the danger but also starts to piece together that Burrows knows more than he’s letting on. Burrows rushes up to the deck but Mikey is hesitant. Burrows turns back to see Mikey isn’t so keen to work with him all of the sudden so he breaks the façade and summons his men. Six ghosts appear around Mikey. He understands completely now. It was always Burrows. Rather than fight he submits. However, Burrows isn’t playing friendly anymore and stabs Mikey through the heart, killing him.

Mikey wakes up in a dark room, naked and defenseless. He quickly understands where he is and walks forward. He meets up with the doorman and comes face to face with Bennsyn. The Aventi doesn’t waste much time preparing him to meet with the Chain Devil. He berates the janitor in the corner for trying to clean, it’s Liza who is just as awful as ever. Bennsyn allows Mikey to enter the room as he goes to deal with her. Mikey walks in to find not Cadenes, but his old friend Kifo. Kifo explains the situation. Mikey needs to go back and finish his voyage. He must kill Burrows and get to the center to stop the storm. He is a Gnash after all. Meanwhile, He and the army will deal with the ramifications down here. He then shows Mikey the soldiers. Everyone he knew in life that left. Noticeably absent are Tecnic and Sonney. He tearfully says hello to his fallen friends as one man he’s never met walks up to him. Once he opens his mouth however, He realizes it’s Tecnic, back in his mortal form. He hugs him and asks where Sonney is. They don’t have an answer for him. He knows what that means. Kifo hands him a magical ore and tells him they hope not to see him soon as he vanishes. He is inside of the Kraken swimming up towards the Grimoire. It spits him out as his soul lands back in his body. Kneeling above him is Chiens and standing behind her are Sahge and Burrows. He spots the apparatus they arrived in briefly as Chiens cheerfully shouts that she saved him. It is short lived however as Burrows stabs her through the back of the head. She spits up blood and collapses on Mikey, dead. He jumps up but Sahge stops him, hoping too solve this by warning Burrows of something approaching. In the distance a flame is partially seen in the storm. It is revealed to be a Vrock and on it’s back, Dex. Burrows tosses the eight coins into the sea and jumps into the Apparatus and sends it off the side into the water, driving it towards the center. Mikey mourns for just a moment before snapping back into reality and attempts to turn the ship so they do not capsid. Dex flies above and attempts to grab them but just below, the apparatus gets pulled apart by the storm and Burrows begins to change, almost becoming one with the swell. He emerges from the depths as a giant Empyrean. The three know they have to destroy it, now. They are severely outmatched. Luckily, Kifo stops by and causes a massive blow to the titan, giving them the edge they need. He used up all his power however so he sits out but he stays to watch. Dex somehow manages to summon another Vrock from the one he’s on and gets Mikey to ride it. Mikey spots the coins within the center of the beast so He gets above the monster and jumps down into it, swinging wildly and hoping to knock them out. However, he gets stuck within. Sahge realizes what has to happen so he jumps straight at the mass and grabs hold of Mikey, hurling him back towards the ship and falling into the ocean where he presumably dies. Unknowingly, Mikey did shift something within so with one final swing of his ore he takes out the Empyrean. It falls backwards and causes an even worse storm to commence. Dex can’t get to Mikey so the boy braces on the ship as it begins to shatter. The blood on him from Chiens mixed with the ash and hail from the storm blend into his hair, darkening it as his skin begins to get paler and older as he blacks out. He wakes up on the beach by Toke Port, completely unaware of where or who he is. He finds a piece of paper in his pocket. The only thing he can make out on it is “Griffin Thorne” and a montage begins playing out the life of Sonney’s Father through his eyes. The Cycle continues.

## Cast

### Main

* Benjamin Tecnic
* Mikey Gnash
* Sahge Montgomery
* Dex
* Liza Erd
* Chiens Cascade
* Tamaa Nyeusi
* Jack Burrows
* Booker Dread

### Special Guest

* Bennsyn
* Kifo Pomboo
* Mwana Pomboo

### Supporting

* Thomas Dawkins
* Ardyn
* Madame Temer
* Father Ted
* Jikelele
* Shimo Larisasi

### Guest

* Mbu
* Zaka
* Alexandra Montgomery
* Ilanga
* Deceased Cast

## Trivia

* Series Finale.
* Graeme McEneany returned for this session one last time to portray Jack Burrows.
* Kyle Muller sat in for this session despite his final character, Orville dying in the previous episode. It was revealed late in the game that this was so he could return as Kifo Pomboo for the final confrontation.
* Sonney Griffin-Thorne was originally going to return this session. However, Matt Christie requested he did not because he felt the character had been retired and to bring him back would kill the open-ended final scene he had.
* Matt Finger was asked to return for this episode but he could not.
* The twist in this episode was planned a mere 10 weeks before it debuted, during a break in the episode "Florence and the Machine".