SUMMARY:  Obadiah is haunted by his time aboard the whaling ship Nausicaa. He remembers joining up, still happy and joyful. His wife, Penny, bring him his lucky knife, which he nearly forgot at home. He bids goodbye to her and his son Terrence... who has had a terrible vision, and warns him that a shadow is falling over him. Penny promises to be true to him, though it doesn't ring true. Another warning comes from a blind old man, Isaiah, who says the vessel is cursed. Brooding, limping Captain Argus calls for heartless men to join him. Obadiah nearly turns away... but then the seductive siren Calypso appears, calling to him.

SUMMARY:  Obadiah continues his tale... interrupted by Calypso, who says that she loves him. The crew brings in their first whale. As the whale is gutted, Linsey, a young crewmember, sings while he works. Back at home, Penny disciplines a gloomy Terrence for reading too much Edgar Allan Poe. "Yes, mother!," he cries, "Send me to the grave, where I belong!"  Back aboard, Goatse says he takes no joy in the hunt. He's taken a solemn vow to the Sea God. Linsey is harpooned by Argus for his incessant singing.  Argus then announces they'll be changing course for icy waters.  And then Obadiah spies Goatse, conferring with a strange gentleman all dressed in white, who seems to then disappear into the briny sea.  "In the deep, we wait," he intones.

SUMMARY:  The sea is suddenly scarce of fish. Rations are running low, and so's morale. They're coming up on a mysterious, uncharted island, and are prepared to raid it if the indigenous people won't give them supplies. As they drop anchor, a strange stillness descends. Argus tells the tale of how he lost his leg to the whale... and got it back again. Peet reports that the scouts on the island haven't returned. Argus sends Obadiah and Goatse after them. As Obadiah vows to return home, Goatse ritualistically presents him with a glowing red liquid, and commands him to drink.

SUMMARY:  Obadiah tells us that sometimes he forgets he has a wife and child waiting at home. It helps to tell the story. He continues: As they explore the island, Obadiah reveals that he did not drink Goatse's liquid, which Goatse says is a magical potion to "help you see reality." He also warns that the Captain wants Obadiah to kill him. They meet strange islanders who claim that Obadiah and Goatse are translucent. They offer Obadiah some fruit, which induces nightmarish hallucinations. The islanders appear to be animals who have taken human form, and he sees his former shipmates, also transformed into animals. He sees his wife, building him a boat to use to sail home when he has none, while Calypso tells him that his home is here now. And a strange, squid-woman in Red beckons to him, asking how deep he can go, as the Man in White looks on. All goes black. "Where has the world gone!?" he cries...

SUMMARY:  Calypso asks Obadiah why he keeps playing the same song over and over. He says it reminds him of home. She brought him back from the dead, she says - he denies this, and vows not to forget his home. Obadiah, determined to remember, continues his story: Lost and frozen in a hallucinatory void, he sees Goatse swimming towards him through the depths, admonishing him to drink the red water. Obadiah finally does so, and finds himself back on in reality, on the island. Goatse has found food. Shplank and Dregg seems to have gone mad. They all return to the Nausicaa, where they immediately set off to the west, where the foam of the sperm has just been seen. As Obadiah vows to live to see his son grow into a man, Terrence, at home, writes a letter to his father, fearing him dead, begging him to come home. And on the ship, the Captain readies to plunge into the depths of hell...

SUMMARY:  Terrence writes to Obadiah about his mother's new suitor, a drunken and loutish vintner named Tony, in hopes of hurrying his father's return home. Back aboard the Nausicaa, Argus is in hot pursuit of the legendary "demon" sperm, One-Eyed Willie... the very sperm who chomped upon his leg. The whale is incredibly massive, and Argus demands the crew stay the course. The whale rises and smashes its head into the boat. The crew is tossed into the water. As he fights the icy waves, Obadiah sees Argus standing upon a plank, shouting defiantly that he lives. The whale charges again, straight on, it's mouth a chasm into hell that grows before the terrified crew...

SUMMARY:  Terrence writes his father a suicide note. He's had a dream that a great beast devoured his father whole. This is, in fact, true. An angry, exasperated Penny prevents Terrence's suicide, and plans to send him to boarding school. Meanwhile, the Woman in Red informs a recalcitrant One-Eyed Willie that he's eaten the wrong man. Inside Willie's stomach, Obadiah uses the last of his strength to use his great knife on Willie's stomach lining, causing him pain. Obidiah blacks out... and awakens on the Nausicaa some time later. The crew spot an albatross, which Goatse says is a good omen from the gods, bestowing a blessing upon Obadiah... but a shot rings out. Argus has shot and killed the albatross. The crew react in horror, but Argus insists that there are no gods or demons, and the albatross will feed the crew. No ill will come of it. However, Argus gives Obadiah a look of fear and hatred. They both know that eventually, one will hold the other's mortality in his hands. "But the dead bird in my arms carried a more catastrophic message," says Obadiah.  "Its voice was in the thunder and the wind. The storm that gathered near grew more savage by the moment, and in my bones I knew that man and ship alike were now to pay an all-consuming price. If you hear, o God, have mercy!"

SUMMARY:  As the storm approaches, Argus scoffs at the danger, while Shplank tries to organize a mutiny before he gets them all killed.  Back at hom, Terrence, continuing to despair that his father is drowned, jumps off a cliff into the ocean, hoping to be reunited with his father, in a way, under the dizzying waves.  As the hellish storm overtakes them, the crew mans the rigging.  Obadiah, finally accepting the message of the fates, leaps into the abyss...