>>6034152>>6034299"Let's go look for the mermaids, they seemed friendly. Go see if you can find that friendly mermaid again, Dyshon."
You dispatch Dyshon to go look for the mermaids. After a couple days on the sea, he returns.
"I have found the mermaids, there were three of them this time, they were swimming around with a bunch of dolphins. One of them began singing and I fell on the water and was about to drown, but then a fight broke out amongst them!"
"A couple mermen carrying coral tridents showed up. They separated the fighting mermaids and the group spoke for a long time. It seems the male mermaids were scolding them. The mermaids and one of the merman disappeared into the ocean and the remaining one just kept staring at me while I swam back to my boat. As I made my trip back, I noticed he was following me."
"I wonder why there were guards so close to those mermaids.", says Ceryn.
"I suppose they might be some kind of nobility. Allowed to go where the other mermaids cannot. They might have laws against contacting non mermaids.", says Zeren.
"You think they would receive us if we went there to talk to them?", you ask.
"Maybe. Though we lack the means to breath underwater, and they seem to lack the means to come to the surface. I don't see us entering into conflict anytime soon, but I also don't see them having much interest in us.", says Zeren.
> Seek diplomatic contact with the mermaids> Tell Dyshon to learn the mermaid's language> Tell Dyshon to gift the mermaids a knife> Smuggle some gold to gift the mermaids> Make an ambush and capture one of the mermaids 