HTML Wanderpus: Third Away Game - Welcome to the Jungle!

The away team heads off and the crew is on the ship. A giant bird swooped down and picked up the ship, same it would pick up a tasty snack. We were all rattled sufficiently and I ducked for cover under my bunk. All I could think was, what in the hell is happening?
 
KERPLUNKKKD - the bird dropped the ship, upside down mind you, on the side of a mountain. The crew is left to figure out how to right it and the away team heads out to investigate possible rift activity.
 
The away team made their way to a man-made cobblestone walkway circling a tree that seemed out of place and definitely mysterious after the ship received word that there are rifts active on this plane. Going down the circle path underground, they come across an open room with boxes and a seemingly peaceful well in the back end of this open, paved, underground area. Boxes are broken and so are some instruments. Then, a swarm of centipedes attacks Zacna (I think) and he wipes them out easily.
 
Meanwhile, Tilorn finds a map that he notices music notes and scales pinpointing swirl areas on the Liminal map. Using his body tattoo maps and color-shaded goggles, marks these locations on his tattoos. The map crumbles instantly.
 
Ottertime and Toast, standing near the mysterious well when SHOOMP - four or five tentacles pop out of the water and grab Toast and Otter pulling them underwater. A giant cephalopod with divine yellow head and red, green and blue tentacles keeps him grappled. Toast notices they are in a freezing cold but flowing underground river. Death Hand frees them and they manage to defeat the tentacle monster and surface again to tell the rest of the away team about the river. Odd though, Tilorn tells them the rift notifying beetle is not detecting rift activity.
 
Back at the ship, which is now upside down on a rocky mountainside and grappled by a very large bird, the crew talk it over to decide how to discourage the bird from picking the ship up again. After getting my wits about me, I dodge out from under my bunk and think that I can perhaps go off the sub and land a sneak attack on the bird. I squirm out of a porthole but then.. a beetle approaches the ship. I ready Death Hand and, while cloaked, take out the beetle with one strong shot from my hand cannon. I scramble back through the porthole and hop back onto the ship. I was just in time to get transmissions from the away team. They ask the crew to initiate sonar and attempt to help them locate the north and south end of the underground river. I run to Navigation and track sonar signals on one of the maps and hand it off to Comms to send the information back to the away team. This is literally an all-hands-on-deck affair!
 
The away team bamf back to the ship and we get each group up to speed. A fog is created by the Captain and we are now obscured to the bird. Gunshots are heard out around the ship... who the hell is firing at us?
 
OWL MAFIA, The Parliament, SHOWS UP!! Some of us think they ordered the bird to mess with us. The Captain and Carica use RiverFury and get the underwater river to surface
 
 
[notes being scribed - will share more soon]