Merrick

**Merrick** is an NPC introduced in The Hungering Deep DLC.

Merrick was previously located on the beach at the Southwest side of Shark Bait Cove (during the hungering deep event). The players were given this location by Duke, a Bilge Rat representative located in the Tavern on the Outposts. Players used to be able to find Merrick playing his drum and dancing on two peg-legs (he lost his legs to the hungering one). after the event ended it was revealed that Merrick left to find his son and he has been replaced with a painting.

Players who asked him about how he lost his legs received the Big Jaws Speaking Trumpet  as a gift. He also gave other rewards for completing certain quests, one was finding all his journals which would grant you the big jaws drum (the one in the photo, bottom right) and the other was killing the megladon, after which he would tell you to find the hungering deep figure head at any outpost.

After finding his long-lost family, Merrick retires from hunting to form the Hunter's Call trading company, a company where players can sell him and his family a variety of cooked meats, fish and a few other trinkets like gems at the various Seaposts located throughout the sea. He says the reason he started the hunters call was because his wife, Serick, wanted to give the pirates more than just bananas, and who was he to get in the way of her dream.

## Conversations

Come to hear ole Merrick perform? Well, I'm retired. And this is the soberest I've been in weeks. And if one more person asks me how I lost my legs...

How did you lose your legs, Merrick?
Very funny. You wanna hear me story? Go read me journals. There's one on this island, by the fin-rock that stands in a lagoon. But be careful out there. See, for me latest shanty, I took inspiration from the writins of the tribes that once lived here. They worshiped a great beast... the Hungering One. Don't you go looking for it! I couldn't handle it, and neither can you. Hmm.„ I can't give you a bigger boat, but I can give you this... it'll make it easier to speak to other ships. It's dangerous out there alone!
Got any more stories Merrick?
Fine, I can't resist stretchin' me bardic muscles. What do you fancy?
Something about your injuries?
Good idea. Let me tell you a real tale of terror- how I lost me eye! I was out on Black Sand Atoll in the Wilds. Out of nowhere... a huge, fearsome, crazed beast swooped down and plucked out me eye - just like THAT! What was it? Well, it was a parrot. Don't laugh! A parrot's no joke when it's pecked out your peeper!
Something about Sea Monsters?
How about the time I frightened off a Kraken wiv nothin' but me powerful performance? Me crew fell afoul of the beast after working wiv that stinkin' Merchant Alliance. We were doomed. The Kraken was angry. But inspiration hit me. I played me drum like never before! A stirrin' war-song! That slimy squid fled in terror! And no, NOT because my playing was so awful. I wonder if it was because...
Got any shanties to share?
I'm not some performing monkey! And I'm a bit nervous about playing, lately...
You seem remarkably skelly-free!
True, at first I thought they were takin' pity on me after me brush with death. But maybe it's me pungent aroma. Makes even the dead's eyes water. Sorry.
After you defeat the Hungering One:

Thanks for sharing your tale, Merrick.
I’m just glad that you avenged me crew and dealt wiv my unfinished business.
I hope there aren’t any more of those things out there…
Enjoy using those things I gave you. I might even come out of retirement!