The Ruins Of Rhia - 2047 - 6/10

It started as a midterm assignment, it started with an A I misunderstanding.
Chuck (AKA - Chucksteak), on athletic scholarship, registers for Archeology 101.
His professor tells him to locate and diagram Rhia, which the class gamers snicker at.
Completely out of his depth, Chuck asks “Madam”, his A I tutor to contact and resurrect Rayla.
“Do you mean R’lyeh?” it prompts. “Sure, Madam, whatever.”
The computer links to the university network. Powered by a small reactor in the Science Dept, it then uplinks to SpaceX, and thousands of small energy beacons focus on the South Pacific.
47°9’S 126°43’W. R’leyh.
Seas blacken, then waters grow turbulent, while Madam continues to hurl energy at an alarming rate.
Fairly good Cthulhu yarn has imaginative premise, ingenious models, and is strongly plotted until two thirds in.
Then everything ebbs. New characters appear with the Peruvian Navy (Peru provided funding).
One gathers at a certain point, backers were going, “Now what?”
Doesn’t help that two actors were murdered, one committed suicide, one was kidnapped.