Arianna (Mermaid Synthesist 1/Cleric of Tanager 1) (Just mermaid at the moment)
"Arianna." Waving her hand in a flourish to invite the half-orc to have a seat at her table, "Well, life below the waterline can get a bit boring. We don't get too many visitors down there. So, I came up here looking for adventure and profit."
Sipping her wine before continuing, "My first foray was to help a little guy get something back that was stolen from him. The job wasn't too hard, but customs sure are are strange up here. We rescued a friend of our employer who had been kidnapped. We also found the name of the one who ordered the theft and the item we found in the possession of one of his underlings. We fought our way in, cornered him and captured the minion. We brought the minion in to be questioned by our employer. While interrogating him about his master, he was truly stubborn and would give us much information. The wild warrior in our group was tired of talking and tossed our prisoner a knife."
Pausing for a bite of strawberry before going on.
"Guess what! The prisoner slit his own throat! Is that normal up here?"
Sighing, "Apparently, the shame of failure was greater than his desire for life. Well, maybe that was because he liked playing with dead things. That is what we had to fight through to get to him. Oh well. Not going to fret about him."
Sliding the plate of fruit and cheese towards the half-orc a bit as an offer to share, "We got paid and everyone took off. They didn't even bother feeding the dead underling to a shark or something. I assume our employer had someone else do that. Like I said, strange customs up here. At least the little guy paid well once he got past the idea of paying in books and paper. You know how well those survive below the waterline?" She shakes her head in contempt. "In the end, I got some nice jewelry, a fine weapon, and many yellow metals as our stinky warrior would have put it."