Undertow

The party discovers the truth about Treasure Island and must rescue the Oral Coral royal family.

## Major Plot Points

* Salty Twat, Wet Dick, Voloth, Neuriel, and Calypso helped Kermit the Hermit repair his monastery and fortify it in case the sea zombies return. Meanwhile Kermit’s divination magic revealed the location of the zombies.
* AWW followed Kermit’s directions to an isolated grotto. The smell of death washed over the group from the water. Wet Dick used his magic to clear the water and discovered a collection of dead bodies several feet down. Voloth pulled up the net of bodies so they could be examined. Neuriel identified the bodies as priests from the monastery and that they suffered broken bones, blunt force trauma, and stab wounds. Voloth covered them in oil and burned the bodies to give them a respectful funeral.
* The party went into a cave behind a waterfall and were attacked by zombified humanoid sharks. One took a severe bite out of Neuriel. Wet Dick healed him. Voloth killed one then used his magic to resurrect it and used it to kill the second. The party then killed the last one.
* A loud roar echoed out from deep within the cave and the ground shook.
* In another chamber, the party found Davey Bones and his zombies throwing corpses into a magical orb that raised them as undead soldiers. The orb floated in the large mouth of a giant turtle head. Davey Bones had the beast’s eyes and mouth forced open and it roared out in pain.
* Voloth Eldritch blasted the rods forcing open the turtle’s mouth. The reptile then clenched its mouth shut, eating the zombies and cutting off Davey Bones from the Stench Trench orb.
* The party attacked Davey Bones who used his tentacle goatee and great sword to defend himself. The undead captain proved a hardy enemy as he could regenerate and rise from the dead after lethal attacks. But Voloth’s maul proved too much for Davey Bones. They then found his treasure of 20,000 gold.
* Finally freed, the turtle shared that AWW was actually inside his shell and that this “island” is him, a gargantuan turtle. He warned that he would travel and go under the water so any humanoid on him should leave. The group shared the news with Kermit and his students. Neuriel teleported them to Port Nyanzaru so they could meet Queen Maxima for assistance.
* A couple weeks later, a triton named Arcturus, who is the Poseidra faith leader in the Oral Coral Kingdom, appeared on the Blowhole. He told Calypso that the royal family disappeared last night. He asked her to return to the kingdom to assist in the search or possibly to rule. Arcturus then gave Voloth and Salty Twat the temporary ability to breathe underwater.
* When AWW arrived in the Oral Coral Kingdom, they stopped by AquaCouture. Wet Dick picked up a pair of Jellyfishnets and Salty Twat purchased the Electric Eel Whip. The store worker activated Neuriel’s turtle shell shield so he could communicate with the four spirits inside of it. They were the Teenage Normal Ninja Turtles, legendary heroes of the Oral Coral Kingdom. She said the shield was crafted by Master Splinter.
* Neuriel went to Master Splinter’s house afterwards to get more training with his turtle shell shield. Master Splinter is a rat humanoid and the only surface dweller to be granted citizenship. He earned this right by assisting the Teenage Normal Ninja Turtles. Master Splinter taught Neuriel how to use Shield Bash and Shield Throw.
* Calypso told her teammates that it’s illegal for citizens of the Oral Coral Kingdom to leave and they do not usually allow outsiders in. She didn’t want her family to know she ran away and didn’t want them to worry she was dead so she wrote home saying AWW kidnapped her.
* The party arrived at the royal castle and quickly began their investigation. Led by Salty Twat and Voloth, they discovered clues that Calypso’s six sisters and her parents were kidnapped from their chambers
	+ In the king and queen’s chambers, the party found the queen’s ceremonial battle armor and the king’s ceremonial mage cloaks. On their bed was a pink powder that Voloth discovered to be sleeping powder. Salty Twat took a hagfish head, which unleashes a slime once per day that gives pur advantage on dex saves/checks for 1 hour.
	+ In Ariel’s room, the party found tomes of the kingdom’s history, laws, and customs. Calypso shared that Ariel took her role as heir to the throne very seriously. The party discovered a silencer pearl, which eliminates sound in a 20 foot radius under her bed.
	+ In Misty’s room, they found seaweed joints and books on marine biodiversity. Weirdly, all of her displayed jewelry was not touched by the attackers.
	+ Twins, Atlantica and Pacifica, shared a room. Their walls were covered with posters of bards they like and books of fanfiction. They really love Mariah Hairy. The party found a Mislead Spell Scroll, which makes the user invisible and creates an illusionary duplicate. Calypso said the twins used this all the time to sneak out. AWW realized the room was sloppily put together and there were claw and trident marks all over the room.
	+ In Ursula’s room, the party found two darts in her bed that were tipped with paralysis poison from a jellyfish. Voloth kept the darts.
	+ Tula’s room was adorned with Poseidra idols and filled with her holy texts. The party discovered that there was a maid hiding in the closet. The water around them got suspiciously warm when the closet door was opened. The maid shared that she and Tula are lovers, but they kept their relationship a secret knowing the King wouldn’t approve of the match due to their class differences. She said sea monsters broke in and took the family and that they were led by Duke Eric.
	+ Calypso said Duke Eric had asked for Ariel’s hand in marriage but their father denied his dowery. That didn’t stop him from harassing Ariel though.
* Knowing Duke Eric likes to hang out in the strip club called The Lustacean, Calypso led AWW right to him. The club was closed for a private event so they went towards the back. A topless mermaid came out for a seaweed smoke break and Voloth chatted with her. He gave her 700 gold pieces to leave for the night. He then disguised himself as her and went inside. After failing his dance performance checks, Duke Eric told his guards to throw “Tidal” out. “Tidal” convinced the guards to take her hand when they were outside and then stabbed them with the paralysis darts.
* Calypso stormed into the club by using her gust of wind spell. She went to Duke Eric and slapped him with her thundering grasp cantrip. Salty Twat played good cop and together they got him to confess that Ursula promised she’d marry him and make him king if he helped kidnap the royal family. He said Ursula was at the ancient Kraken Temple with her family. Voloth magically blinded Duke Eric and they locked him inside the club.
* Calypso explained that a 1,000 years ago, her ancestors left the Elemental Plane of Water and founded the Oral Coral Kingdom. They used to worship an evil Kraken god but that religion had been abandoned and outlawed centuries ago. This was due to kraken priests trying and failing to bind a kraken to their will and it destroyed much of the kingdom, including the temple.
* At the Kraken temple, the party discovered Ursula with her two pet eels and a water genie named Gerard. They were going to sacrifice the royal family in a ritual to turn Ursula into a kraken so she could conquer the entire ocean.
* Ursula explained that only she and Calypso were born with their father’s arcane gifts. And with Calypso living above the surface, Ursula should reign as queen. The sea witch tried to convince Calypso to join her so she wouldn’t lose her entire family. Calypso simply replied that the only family she’d lose tonight was Ursula.
* Ursula used prismatic spray, dealing heavy damage to all party members. Neuriel quickly healed the group. Voloth brought the fight to the water genie and the eels. Salty Twat fired arrows at Ursula. Calypso unleashed a lightning bolt on Ursula and the genie. Ursula shot Calypso with a disintegration ray, nearly killing her instantly. Wet Dick came in with a healing spell for the injured princess. Voloth continued his assault against the genie and the eels. Soon only Ursula was the last villain standing, unleashing a cone of cold on the heroes. Wet Dick used his magic to banish Ursula to the Elemental Plane of Fire. Before popping out of existence, she swore to return.
* AWW freed the royal family and Calypso explained that her letters to them weren’t entirely accurate. The Acquaintances With Weapons didn’t kidnap her. She left on her own to learn more about the surface world. She met Syndra Silvane and brought this group together to fight the Death Curse and they’ve become heroes. Her father said he was proud of her but that she broke the law by leaving the Oral Coral Kingdom and broke it again by bringing surface dwellers here. He exiled her from their homeland. Calypso bowed with tears in her eyes and swam away with AWW beside her. Neuriel wished them luck if Ursula ever returned since they wouldn’t be back to save them.