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You've always wondered just how far into the core each of the spires pierce...do they meet in the center? Are they only just barely touching the surface? What would you find, out in the center of it? You're sure that pretty much everyone that's ever lived has wondered the same thing, but you know it to be virtually impossible for anyone to find out. The unlucky bastards that try end up dying from the exponentially increasing pressures surrounding the Core, their bodies crushed long before their ships are...and using Golems doesn't exactly fare any better, as only the spires themselves seem to be tough enough to resist the oppressive atmosphere surrounding it.
You shake your head to clear your thoughts, realizing you were kind of spacing out there for a bit while staring out at the Verdant Spire. You glance about at the new surroundings your ship's drifted into over the past few minutes, lazy islands floating past you and the flooded ruins of an old town dwelling just beneath the crystal-clear currents below you. Your attention is drawn away from the ruins when you hear Gigas speak up from one of the tubes built into the ship.
"Captain Valentine, I see something strange, off starboard! A few miles out." He says, and you glance up at the crow's nest to see the big man pointing in said direction.
"Thank you, Gigas." You reply, turning the helm to face the ship that way. As you get closer, it becomes apparent what Gigas spotted with his spyglass - a massive, twisting, whirling funnel of water stretches from one part of the seas and bends around to touch down in another, slowly drifting and changing its length like it's unstable. A few unlucky ships - of the normal variety, rather than skyships - seem to be trapped along the surface of it, unable to extract themselves from the watery structure and simply doing their best not to capsize within it. You're not sure if you can actually do anything about it, though...
>Try to find a way to destabilize and break the funnel. Something's gotta be fueling it, whether it's some kind of a monster or maybe a lost magic tool of some kind.
>Pull up and rescue the inhabitants of the ships, lives are more valuable than goods.
>Harpoon the ships one by one and try to pull them out to safety. You don't really have any other way of dragging the ships off the funnel.
>Write-in!
