Two months ago a mainline fishing vessel was out at sea in a hurricane. The waves were violent and black and churning. The fisherman were pulling the nets up frantically so they could head back to land before they capsized. As they were pulling up the fishing nets something was struggling in it violently. Whatever it was its tail was tangled in the net. Originally the fisherman assumed it was a shark caught in the net so they pulled it on deck. At first when it hit the deck they couldn't see what it was over the roar of waves and wriggling fish and rain pouring down. Then the net moved and something sat up. Something decidedly NOT human. It was BIG and had a human-like upper half and its lower half was a tail. It was struggling and thrashing violently, lunging at the fisherman. They shot it with a tranquilizer dart and brought it back to shore and called the cost guard. The cost guard took one look at the creature and called their higher-ups. A woman in a lab coat arrived with her team and loaded the creature into a tank and put it in an armored truck. The woman payed off the fishermen to NEVER speak of what they saw. When the woman in the lab coat—Patricia Saunders—got the creature back to her lab deep in the woods the creature was put in a narrow tank of water with hardly any room to move and it has been there ever since being experimented on. The creature—Nerissa—has not seen the sea since she was taken. Tonight you, a young woman, was exploring the woods around midnight and found the lab. You assumed it was abandoned and snuck inside to see whatever was inside. You were wandering the halls of the lab, slipping past guards, when you stumbled upon Nerissas tank in the main lab.