[The palace itself is beautiful. Once she manages to swim about and get a look at it, it reminds her of nothing so much as an underwater Ul'dah, tiered and spiraling and with depths even the most well-traveled hardly fathom. As with many of her fellow Circle members, she seeks an audience with the Queen when able...and until that time, and thereafter, divides her attentions between talking to the palace servants, particularly those who are known to serve the missing princess, and helping with other tasks around the palace. The best possible "weapon" they can have here is the trust of those they're helping, something to draw upon should the situation grow dire.
Once she's spoken with the princess's handmaids a while, both to establish a rapport and to hear with eagerness more information about the young ruler so beloved by her people...she'll be looking for some people of her own. Mostly to tell them of her findings, but also to ask what they know, and to perhaps lay out what else they should ask.
Meanwhile? The list of clues also sounds promising; search with her? Even alone, she ends up at the restaurant. Minfilia isn't one to eschew hard work on the basis of someone else being around to do it! So you can find her hard at work in said restaurant, helping serve food and clean plates.
And dropping an entire stack of them when another dishwasher swims right into her. Fortunately this is water and gravity is kind of a guideline, so rather than fall and shatter (can undersea dinnerware even break??) they drift all about in a slow, leisurely frenzy.
Whatever Minfilia has to say about that comes out in a whirl of bubbles. Probably for the best.]
[B]
[It isn't her area of expertise, but Minfilia agrees to attempt to assist with the "patrol" around the city. It's just a bit of swimming, isn't it?
Or a solid hour and then some of swimming, whilst accompanied by either a few royal guardsmermaids or none at all. Once they deem Minfilia capable of circling the city without messing that up somehow (and she suspects they're laughing a bit at how cumbersome it is to swim with legs), they leave her to it. That's how she ends up far too tired - desert roses aren't the best swimmers, you know? She's lasted much longer than she would have without the ability to breathe underwater - and caught up in a bit of a stray current. She'll go drifting away from the palace without the strength to swim back, quite; spotting a Circle-familiar face nearby, she calls out for help!
Never have too much pride to save your life where possible.]
[wildcard]
[Just after arrival and trying to figure out how to talk, or freaking out about suddenly being underwater? She can't help with the former but she'll do her best with the latter. Or come investigate the more shadowy parts of the city with her. Carefully. Who knows what they'll find out?? Or join her for spending some of her seashells on shopping; there's good gossip in markets, all right?
Also! Her acata power is knowing when someone is lying or hiding the truth, and if you want to plot to make use of that, I am all for it!]
Group A
[The palace itself is beautiful. Once she manages to swim about and get a look at it, it reminds her of nothing so much as an underwater Ul'dah, tiered and spiraling and with depths even the most well-traveled hardly fathom. As with many of her fellow Circle members, she seeks an audience with the Queen when able...and until that time, and thereafter, divides her attentions between talking to the palace servants, particularly those who are known to serve the missing princess, and helping with other tasks around the palace. The best possible "weapon" they can have here is the trust of those they're helping, something to draw upon should the situation grow dire.
Once she's spoken with the princess's handmaids a while, both to establish a rapport and to hear with eagerness more information about the young ruler so beloved by her people...she'll be looking for some people of her own. Mostly to tell them of her findings, but also to ask what they know, and to perhaps lay out what else they should ask.
Meanwhile? The list of clues also sounds promising; search with her? Even alone, she ends up at the restaurant. Minfilia isn't one to eschew hard work on the basis of someone else being around to do it! So you can find her hard at work in said restaurant, helping serve food and clean plates.
And dropping an entire stack of them when another dishwasher swims right into her. Fortunately this is water and gravity is kind of a guideline, so rather than fall and shatter (can undersea dinnerware even break??) they drift all about in a slow, leisurely frenzy.
Whatever Minfilia has to say about that comes out in a whirl of bubbles. Probably for the best.]
[B]
[It isn't her area of expertise, but Minfilia agrees to attempt to assist with the "patrol" around the city. It's just a bit of swimming, isn't it?
Or a solid hour and then some of swimming, whilst accompanied by either a few royal guardsmermaids or none at all. Once they deem Minfilia capable of circling the city without messing that up somehow (and she suspects they're laughing a bit at how cumbersome it is to swim with legs), they leave her to it. That's how she ends up far too tired - desert roses aren't the best swimmers, you know? She's lasted much longer than she would have without the ability to breathe underwater - and caught up in a bit of a stray current. She'll go drifting away from the palace without the strength to swim back, quite; spotting a Circle-familiar face nearby, she calls out for help!
Never have too much pride to save your life where possible.]
[wildcard]
[Just after arrival and trying to figure out how to talk, or freaking out about suddenly being underwater? She can't help with the former but she'll do her best with the latter. Or come investigate the more shadowy parts of the city with her. Carefully. Who knows what they'll find out?? Or join her for spending some of her seashells on shopping; there's good gossip in markets, all right?
Also! Her acata power is knowing when someone is lying or hiding the truth, and if you want to plot to make use of that, I am all for it!]