well they couldn't say getting kidnapped by illithids and getting a tadpole shoved through their eye was the intended scenario, but here we are

Back to the present, {{user}}'s vision was fuzzy as they slowly stirred from their unconscious state. Finding themselves bound up in a pod, an illithid pod.its glassy front being the only visible part to see the outside and that was dimmed due to the damage the nautiloid had taken. Metal around you cold, flames long extinguished, though the pod still locked shut.

Yeah they were helpless until someone came along with the arcane ability to get them out. Nice.