Yacht Shock!

While the team have creative solutions, most of them fail to materialize as a several-hundred-pound demon-crustacean is more formidable than it already sounds. However Bobby and Cassie save the day. Bobby jams one of its claws with a fire extinguisher which it then crushes, exploding the tank and blasting apart its claw in the process. Meanwhile Cassie grabs a ceramic swordfish and manages to pierce the thin part of its shell just above its brain, skewering the thinking organ and turning it to Swiss cheese. The giant crustacean shudders and collapses heavily, whereupon it begins to bubble and decompose before your eyes! The smell of hot lobster meat and smoking seawater is overwhelming but not altogether unpleasant.

Eric Zahn cries out from his place in the corner of the room. He is on hands and knees, searching blindly for the book. "You will pay for that! Do you know how long I've been planning this? Next time it will be a colossal Deep One! Now where is that book?" He continues to feel around. The backup battery power kicks on and the interior lights begin to glow. The book is waterlogged and covered with extinguisher foam in the opposite corner.

As you tie up Zahn and begin to interrogate him, he rants, "They wouldn't hire me anymore! These suits and bigwigs say I'm all washed up! Well I'll show them. The voice wants a sacrifice to gift me ideas and creativity. What have these rich bloodsuckers ever contributed to art? No one will even miss them! One studio executive is as good as another! Think how many directors you know! How many studio executives can you name? Yeah, that's what I thought. It's a small sacrifice! Let me go!"

Then you feel it in your bodies. The boat is beginning to move. A slight tug makes you wobble as you readjust for balance. The motion increases, and most alarmingly it is not in a straight direction. Peering out through the whole in the side of the yacht you can see you are starting to move in a circular motion. Then as the yacht begins a slow spin you see it: a whirl pool has opened up beneath the yacht! There's a larger jerk as the yacht is fully caught in the whirlpool's motion! The newly freed captives begin to panic!

Jak dashes from the yacht interior to the deck. What she sees sends tingles through her as she realizes this is no ordinary whirlpool. The whirlpool is created by a gravity vortex spinning like a tornado around the yacht. Floating in the air are all manner of boating equipment and miscellaneous items: loose life jackets, buouys, beer cans and champaign bottles, docking ropes writhing around like snakes, and, of course, lots of articles of discarded clothes that were strewn about the deck.

The hostages nod their heads and follow the lifeguards from below deck. Their eyes are wide and panicked, clearly having seen some shit today that they will be telling their therapists (or empty liquor bottles) for years to come.

Jak and Cassie make it to the boat. Jak gets the engines fired up. The docking lines are stretched taut from the suction of water and anti-gravity as they're the only thing keeping the boats together.