Me too!

She looks around, absentmindedly fiddling with her hair, and then - 

[Destination. Potential-friend.]

(Mediator is working on a better communicative interface now that Host Primary-Friend has mysteriously manifested the standard hookups, but it's taking a bit!)

...so I think the HUD-superpower I got when I arrived here is talking to me? And is saying I can make a friend if I head that way...

She hauls herself to her feet (long prehensile hair is SO COOL, all the benefits of arbitrary extra limbs and 100x more aesthetically pleasing) and tries spawning herself a specialized pair of jumping stilts (doubled max compressive force, sliiightly larger rubber feet) to work with.

Oh, neat! ✨Friendship✨!

Yeah!!!

She springs into motion, bounding in the direction of her mysterious intuition (ooooh, yeah, these upgraded springs are great) and keeping an eye on her HUD.

Eventually she can see a group of costumed people riding large dog-like creatures. One of the group - a girl with blond hair, a skintight suit, and a half-face mask - gestures for the group to stop as Magini comes into view.

Woah, those things look gnarly.

She waves excitedly at the girl who clearly spotted her, which causes her to miss-angle the footfall she's in the middle of, spring forward at far too sharp an angle to avoid wiping out. A look of panic is visible on her face very briefly, then she's obscured behind a blurred mass of blue hair that's skidding along the ground, slowing rapidly.

She comes to a stop about 20 feet away from the group and then springs up like she didn't just eat shit and slide 15 feet along pavement, jumping stilts gone without a trace. 

"Hello!"

"Mmm." says the girl in the half-mask, looking very intently at the blue cape.

Huh, not often a cape is genuinely happy to meet a gang of supervillains, much less one as new as this.

"What brings you around these parts?"

(HUDpdates: half-mask girl is confused and interested in her, skull-biker is wary but otherwise neutral, fancy-mask kid is bored and doesn't care, and hockey girl is hostile, but - in general, not at her.)

gravely: "You could say that I was bought here by the whims of an entity with sight and power beyond all mortal comprehension to fulfill its goals to the best of my understanding." 

cheerfully: "But no, I'm here to make friends and help people and learn cool stuff! ...And also, apparently, to get chased around by dragon shapeshifters for the crime of teaching algebra, though hopefully that won't be a recurring problem."

...

Can her power fact check literally everything the blue girl just said.

Blue girl's level of belief in most things she is saying cannot be fact-checked against her tone, body language, mannerisms, etc at this time, sorry! (This may change at Higher Friendship Levels.)

(She definitely did get just chased around by Lung. After (somewhat successfully???) teaching him a bit of algebra. Hope that helps.)

"The fuck." Tattletale mutters.

"I mean uh. ..."

What does she mean. What does one even say to that.

Seeing Tattletale dumbfounded, Regent, a cape wearing a regency inspired costume with an elegant mask, cracks up.

Grue, a cape wearing a frankly terrifying skull mask, is at least slightly more composed: "What happened to Lung?" he asks, concerned for his own safety and weary of further complications.

ohno she's being too weird,,  wait, nevermind, ballroom mask guy is laughing, she's probably fine.

"Lung's the dragon-guy? He listened to me for a few minutes, got really angry and tried to attack me, and then got chased off by a very " autistic " direct superhero with a motorcycle and polearm."

"...Armsmaster, that was his name", she adds after a half-second.

"Uhuh," replies Grue.

"I suppose we should thank you for distracting him," he says, feeling more suspicious of the blue girl than thankful. 

She shrugs awkwardly.

"Well, when I ran into him, he was ordering people to hunt down and shoot children, so I wanted to do something?"

"...and it was a good chance to test my powers, too. I haven't exactly had them for very long."

Fuck it, she'll figure this out as she goes.

"How long have you had your powers?" she asks, her smirk just as smug as when she actually knows what's going on. 

"...Couple of hours, give or take?" (she's spent less time than that here, but she's been talking to Hydrangea for longer, and that also feels like the answer to the question in an importance sense, so she'll split the difference.)

Her ability to use her powers seems in lien with this, so she's either dissociating, has an own-mind effecting power, or she got her powers from something other than trigger. That last option seems the least likely but actually this is the second time Tattletale has thought that and that's somewhat suspicious. Regardless, the blue girl is out of her depth - anyone with new powers would be. She's not sure about the details, but her power has helpfully informed her that this is because she's insufficently friends with the blue girl. So all she has to do is fix this.

"You doing okay?"

"...It's been a pretty crazy day and a lot of things are still sinking in, but honestly, I'm doing really well, thanks."

She stops to think for a bit. "...uh. Practically, if you have any interest in being a fence for some jewelry? I don't have any cash for weird reasons but I do have some nice platinum bangles" (her hair was covering them until just now, weird) that I do promise are my own to sell."  (Tattletale's power can verify that entire last sentence is completely honest and that the bangles are legit)

Shenanigans! 

Whatever. she'll try paying 50% over however much they're worth to see if that helps her friend score. How much are they worth - oh wow. ... Well, if a girl can't spend money on jewelry and friendship what can she spend money on?

"Sure, I can pay you fifteen grand for the four of them?"

Grue is very carefully keeping his face neutral while Tattletale does whatever the fuck it is she's doing.

"Oh! That would be absurdly helpful, thank you" - she slips them off and offers them to Tattletale. "Can you pay some of that in cash? I wanna find someplace open later than my usual bedtime and get some greasy food..." 

"Uh, I have -" riffles through pockets "- seven hundred and twenty three dollars on me?"

Cash is useful with her powers to leverage it.

"You're also welcome to crash on my couch." she offers, slipping one of the Friendship Braceletsbangles on. She'll keep another one to give to Magini later, in case she ever needs more Friendshipability to read the blue trump.

(Her HUD helpfully informs her that half-mask girl is Actively Working on befriending her, which makes her feel very warm-glow-y.)

"If you're sure you're okay with that, that'd be wonderful! And that'd mean I don't really need much cash right now."

Wait, she hasn't introduced hersel-