Genesio Nicodemo

Genesio Nicodemo was a retired guard living in Gerald's Foot. When children starting to go missing, he offered forth a theory that werewolves were responsible, leading Domonic D'Amore, the leader of Gerald's Foot, to initiate a lockdown, keeping anyone from leaving or entering the city.

He offered his services to the party by showing them around in their investigation into the missing children, and bought everyone a rather disgusting round of peanut butter and mustard sandwiches.

After some investigating, the party was led though a secret tunnel in a hidden cavern passageway past a pool of aquatic spear-throwing monsters. The tunnel led up to the backyard of none other than Genesio, where the party (especially Brisbane) admired his tomato plants. He invited them in and explained that the tunnel was used for smuggling and he used it to go out to the beach when the lockdown had him too stir crazy.

Under questioning, he admitted that it wasn't the only reason for the tunnel -- he claimed that he had been sneaking out to see Jace, a surf instructor, in an attempt to get closer to him. He claimed that they had a shared interest in marine biology among other things, and Margie was thrilled to be let in on the hot goss. However, Juice had excused himself to explore the rest of Genesio's house, still suspicious.

Juice surprised a blue skinned and gilled attacker in Genesio's office, who sprayed a burst of water at him and leapt through the window. The party gave chase, convinced that Genesio was just as astonished as they were to be attacked in his house. (Both Juice and Margie got stuck in windows, and it was hilarious except for that Juice almost died...jumping out a window badly.)

However, it was all a lie. Upon leaving Gerald's Foot, Margie asked Jace about Genesio and Jace told them he did not have the relationship that Genesio described. Realizing they'd been duped, the party raced back through the tunnel via ocean caves and into town, where they tracked Genesio to a hidden passage way to the north of town.

Inside they found a chamber filled with three huge water tanks set into the wall, and tables filled with magical notes and instruments of surgery. The missing children were inside, in various states of transformation into Merfolk. Via message, the children let the group know that Genesio and four others had done this to them, and were in an adjacent room.

However before deciding on a clear plan of action, the Merfolk in the other room realized the party had found them and escaped. Genesio, now fully looking like a Merfolk man, blasted them all with a spell and claimed that overfishing had decreased the Merfolk population -- the reason for his dastardly scheme. He then opened up a hole in the chamber allowing the ocean to spill in.

The party just managed to free the children and escape with their lives, and Genesio lives to kidnap children and transform them into fish people another day.

## Powers and abilities

Genesio has the power to disguise himself to look like a regular human, hiding his blue skin and gills and other fishlike qualities.

He has the ability to blast an extremely powerful burst of water as an attack, and is also handy with a spear.

He can breathe and swim easily underwater, and can either transform other people into creatures like him or he keeps the company of those who can.