[center][h1][color=FF1493]Sophia von Zeerover[/color][/h1][/center] [color=FF1493]"Eh?! Dontcha' wanna' stay fer' a free meal? Mah' treat fer everyone, swear on mah' patron!"[/color] Sophia called out to Hilaria and Mariette, after looking back at the two Mariette once the horror girl made clear she was going to leave. As much as the pirate's accent was thick, however, she truly felt she was doing her best to be genuinely nice here! They had all fought well, and a good fighin' crew was always welcome to a good feast to celebrate. Such was her mindset. Well...if any of these girls were up to it anyways to boot. Though Sophia looked back forwards after the mafioso boy began to speak again...albeit with a pause and somewhat awkward seeming smile...the pirate lightly rolled her eyes in exasperation. It was like some people couldn't understand plain ENGLISH around here! Then again, she was a pirate and pirates tended to speak rather uniquely. Though what about "Talk Like a Pirate Day"?! Didn't mundane people have that to give them some means of understanding-...ugh, nevermind. At least the mafioso-sounding guy seemed to have the manners to introduce himself and do some explaining, though the obvious questions seemed to follow right after. Well, at least the questions seemed obvious to her. After being asked for an explanation it was only proper to give one in return! However, the guy's eyes seemed to obviously wander a bit over the swordswoman's body as he walked up to Amaryllis (and her). A pang of light frustration pushed Sophia to let out a small sigh in response. Sure the goo lass was pretty sexy, such was her lot in becomin' a magical girl, but she also wasn't a hunk of meat! Amaryllis was her friend, after all! She wasn't going to sit around and let her friend be ogled like that by people, after all. Even she had some standards for a pirate! [color=FF1493]"Ey', Nuncio, please keep yer' eyes up to her face will yeh'? Just ta' ask fer' politeness' sake, if ah' may interject as ah' friend ere'."[/color] the magical girl interjected, keeping her tone as polite as possible in the process. Perhaps those words would be more easily heard and grasped? She was trying at least, to enunciate and pronounce her words as clearly as possible, and that's what counted in her mind. At least she was also more understandable than the creaking buncha' planks that was her patron! Though she was perhaps a special case in grasping what her patron would tell her. Something about those sounds seemed to just plunk out words in her head. Handy, that was. Sophia pulled her arm of camaraderie back politely, before tilting back her axe-gun to sit back on one shoulder as she put her other free arm on her hip. A wide grin came onto her face once more, then, as she let out a proud laugh. [color=FF1493]"Ah'll let mah' friend introduce herself, but ah' am Sophia von Zeerover! The Number One Pirate in all ah've Penrose, new ta' the block despite tha' time nonsense, and friend to the lass next to meh' here! Good ta' meet ya'!"[/color] Sophia took her free hand off of her hip, before extending it outwards with confidence towards Nuncio to offer a proper handshake. Such was the pirate's life! Plus one less person apt to try to kill her was nice. Always nice. Speaking such, what was that maid girl doing right now? Hopefully stayin' alive and such, she hoped. Poor lass had been pretty shaken up when they first met, after all. [@PlatinumSkink][@BrokenPromise][@ERode][@FamishedPants] [hr] [center][h1][color=6A5ACD]Serenity Gates[/color][/h1][/center] The maid girl had happily made sure to show and give her number to Juliana in return, though too felt some enjoyment in the following casual chat the two underwent before she had been forced to run off with the others. Something was special about the Valkyrie girl...but what was it that stoked her curiosity and interest in her so? What was drawing her to the other girl even now? It was nothing she knew of right now anyways, and...well, it would take time to figure that all out anyways. Time talking, being around each other, and getting to better know each other would maybe reveal the answer. Such was the nature of being human, right? To find these things out, to build those bonds, and keep moving forward! Though after arriving the white haired girl let out a small and surprised 'eep!' when Aurelio suddenly pulled her into a one-armed embrace and gave her a light shake. Yet the magician's following words and those of Alicia were in some sense a comfort as well. They hadn't forgotten her...they wouldn't forget her. Despite the good feelings still around after the end of the trial, however, Rachael seemed apt to stomp on it and assert her authority. Had trying to get them excommunicated an executed not been enough for her? It seemed not. But perhaps she was being emotional about it all as well. What was clear was that Rachael was noting that the Ascendancy's mission was to continue, she didn't trust Alicia to not "mess up" her plans, they were keeping separate for the most part, and they'd be tolerated merely out of duty. Had she missed much beyond that? Indeed, they were even being asked to help deal with a situation conjured by corrupted magical girls. Serenity almost wished she had scribbled some sigils and runes to...no. That would have been bad. Very bad. Ugh. She and the others could only really go one thing at a time, and there had to be a better solution to the Ascendancy problem. Not that they had been useless or all terrible either...they'd helped this place in their absence whilst they were stuck in a time dilation kidnapping event and swimsuits. The maid magical girl had to give credit where it was due, at the very least. There were even those within that organization, like Juliana, that seemed to be more compassionate and kind than she'd ever expected. So there had to be hope that things would work out well with all of this too! Aurelio also Alicia also brought up some good points, however. This dark magical girl/monster girl event was more than suspicious, they all did want Penrose back to normal, and the locations of the ShineSpark-infused monster girl were another thing entirely as welll. In Serenity's mind the direct attacks on Beacon were also nothing short of a trap. Though between her prior thoughts and now, however, an idea of sorts did some to her mind. "An idea of sorts" being the emphasis here. Looking up at the visibly more tense and worried Alicia, however, pushed the white haired magical girl to step forward and place a comforting hand on Alicia's shoulder. [color=6A5ACD]"I haven't heard from Penny, but...I know we can do this! But we need to be organized, that is the key! If I may?"[/color] Serenity spoke as best as she could, though a relatively minor slight chill ran down her back. Even so, she as confidently as possible moved before their small group, taking control of the projection table they were at and changing the display on it to help visualize her explanation. They had to figure something out, have some sort of plan at least. To just rush out was...the thought of it worried her a lot. [color=6A5ACD]"From what little I saw 'before' I became as I am now, especially here in Penrose and of its inhabitants, Penny might be a potential key to figuring what's going on. But if Chloe gets to her, or if some other dark force like Cindy Ford and her self-proclaimed queenship, I...well, I feel there is enough worry about it all already. But from here we can break things down, to try to figure this out better."[/color] The projection on the table shifted again, splitting from a tree diagram of connections and images and information into several distinct groupings. [color=6A5ACD]"One thing we need to do is help Penny. For that, sending someone she trusts most from here might work best. But if she's with Cindy, or Chloe, or those at the 'rave' I...I don't know how it would go down. At all. I have all of what my former self saw in regards to Penrose, and what he dug up otherwise in his boredom, but that is all I have to work on. I worry we could trigger something bad with Penny caught in the middle, especially with the situation the Ascendancy has created in our absence. Next, in regards to the 'concert' and 'rave', between the feeling of it being a gigantic and obvious trap, especially with the attacks made on Beacon in its 'advertisement', how do we get info? We have no idea about Penny right now, and we need to help her before anything else. Plus we don't know everything going on at this 'concert' and what detection magic or other things could be set up there."[/color] The maid girl then let out a long, exasperated sigh. [color=6A5ACD]"I know of someone, well 'something', who would be very happy to help us with at least one of these things. She's, ahm, not alien to Beacon...and has actually worked with the Hawaiian Branch sometimes. But I...I don't want to get too far ahead. Does anyone else have suggestions or ideas?"[/color] The projection on the table shifted again, though barely, tossing in a small black silhouette into a new and very small small side grouping. This one in particular seemed to contain a [url=https://i.imgur.com/4Qf8QZ8.png]strangely familiar black silhouette from human eldritch fiction[/url], surrounded strangely by party hats and ocean and the like. [@Ariamis][@Flamelord][@Shifter_Master]