We are in the OctoCave; Necros and Dr. Aquatic are not here. Spectral Spear gets an urgent mental communique from Dr. Aquatic. He is at the bottom of the lake and is asking for our help. He wants us to bring a vial of water from his room.

We take the OctoPod south. We arrive at a shipwreck, the USS Alpena which is a steamer. He is leaning against a rock outcropping. We are almost 150 feet underwater here.

We go to him, and see that his right hand has been torn off. He is barely concious. He gestures toward the left and says to get him there. We take him into the OctoPod and travel the direction he was pointing.

Soon we see a kind of structure ahead, three rock-like claws sticking up from the lake floor, and a dome. There is a ship here as well.

We pull off Aquatic’s helmet. We’ve never seen his face before. He looks human with bluish skin. He has gills. His breathing is labored. We pour some of the water on his gills. He wakes up briefly and tells us not to waste the water.

We dock at the structure. Surprisingly it interfaces with the pod. There is no one here but we find a gun and some blood, but no bodies anywhere around. There are living quarters and eating areas. We find equipment to repair Aquatic’s armor. We take it with us.

Suddenly in the corridor we are attacked by a huge creature, seemingly the same race as Aquatic. He has claws, though! We defeat him and put him in the walk-in cooler.

We find a medical bay There is a bacta tank with an opening for the vial. We put Aquatic in there to heal and use the vial.

The last wing has a lab. Tons of blood and bodies are in this area. A smashed bacta tank is also here. There are written logs. Spear translates them, as she can read any type of language. They were making a genetically engineered combat machine, and it got loose and killed them.

Aquatic wakes up and he has a strange watery arm where it had been previously torn off. He says that he is Atlantean. He says they they were rogue scientists who created the creature. The creature probably absorbed them. We decide to kill the creature by cutting it and burning it up.

Aquatic says that he is actually half-Atlantean. His mother was a land-dweller. He says that all Atlanteans are slightly telepathic. He asks us to keep all of this a secret.