Shark Emerson

*"Members of Shark Emerson's, brutal crew, who when searched by The Green Reed of Saltmarsh, met them with blades and fire.  These people have no remorse and are what will lead Saltmarsh into chaos and war.  And their fearless leader who they risked their necks to protect, abandoned them."* He says holding up a wanted poster of a Smug Looking Half-Elven Man, with shoulder length black hair, scruff on his chin, and a confident smirk*. "We apprehended this brigands around Deadman's Dropoff, where Shark Emerson and one other seemed to have disappeared. 100 Gold pieces for him captured alive, 50 Gold Pieces for him turned into the guard. No questions asked." - Captain Fernando Santilian before hanging members of Shark's Crew*

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

Shark Emerson was the leader of a small but brutal crew of Smugglers operating in Saltmarsh and around the Azure Sea. He was charged with smuggling, murder, and worst of all aiding and abetting the Tide Princes. Captain Fernando Santilian, of the Green Reed, seems to have a specific contempt for Shark and his crew, forcing them to hang before officially tried and doubling shark's bounty after the Hanged Mure attack at the Gillhouse. Shark Emerson (nicknamed '**Shrimp Emerson**' by the Salty Six) was apprehended by the Salty Six who discovered him in Deadman's Dropoff already murified into a Grinner Mure. However, an arrangement between Santilian and the Six was made and the Captain received official credit for the slaying of Emerson; in exchange for an underground partnership between the adventurers and the captain.

## A Salty Tomb

Shark Emerson, or what was left of him, was found deep within the Smuggler's Cave at Deadman's Dropoff, in a back cavern with another mure. The cavern had a locked magical door and would fully fill with ocean water at high tide, it can be rationalized that Shark and his crewmate met their end via drowning to the incoming tide. However, the second mure (The Betrayed Mure) had a gun shot in the back of its head, leading to a belief that maybe Shark killed him before they drowned or tried to kill him after he murified. But none of this can be confirmed.

## Shark's Second End

Shark's murified corpse met it's end within the Smuggler's Cave at Deadman's Dropoff as well, at the hands of the Salty Six. The Salty Six arrived in the back cavern as the tide began rolling in. Shark , a grinner capable of upper level cognition, hid towards to the higher end of the cavern shooting at the party and destroying cover with his Palm Pistol equipped with miniature cannonballs; while the Betrayed Mure, a heedless, rampaged below. After a dangerous fight the Salty Six dispatched the duo and were victorious, just in time to figure out how not to drown to the incoming tide.

## Murified Appearance

While Shark is depicted in his wanted poster as a handsome half elf with long black hair and a look of smug confidence, his murified visage is not as kind to the eyes. Shark's eyes twinkled with a trance-like joy, while his face contorted into a twisted grimace typical of a grinner, his jaw mutated into two rows of jagged smiling teeth that you would expect of his namesake. While already skinny and lanky looking, his body became gaunt and the ripped pieces of cloth left on his body left little to the imagination. Like most grinners, Shark moved with an inhuman speed, twitching and shaking with glee as he taunted and fired his pistol.

## Interesting Items

Shark whose armor and body were tattered by the saltwater and shredded in the murification process, he did have a couple of interesting items in his possession or located near him in the room:

* Palm Pistol
* One Miniature Cannonball
* Shark's Journal
* A Sending Bottle
* Dust of Disappearance