For her first year of criminology studies at CalState, Nita Javierez has to untangle the riddle of a cabal of fish-men, how to measure non-euclidean objects, and the creepy occult studies professor named Chipper who is always smiling. Is Chipper connected to the bodies washing up on the California coast with eldritch symbols carved into their flesh? Is someone performing a ritual to summon an otherworldly god? And most important, will Chipper agree to be her college advisor?