Penny Pincher

Penny Pincher is a now-former pickpocket who has appeared in two different The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes roleplays.
== Megundal's accomplice ==
Main article: The Runaway Room
One night, Penny slipped into an omnibus to try and find items she could steal and sell on. However, this omnibus would prove to be the scene of the murder of Morta Milverton at the hands of Cosney Megundal over a music box disc with important information contained in it.
After proving to be an unwilling witness to Milverton's murder, Penny was offered the chance to go free with a price—she couldn't tell the police or anyone else what she'd seen or heard, and that she had to withdraw the music box disc from the pawnshop within 2 years, otherwise it would be sold on as unwanted merchandise. Failure to comply would result in the slums she and many other orphaned children lived in being destroyed and the residents chased out.
She later stole Sherlock Holmes's smoke grenade launcher and used it during Megundal's trial to create a distraction that allowed Megundal to taint the evidence, leading to the case against Megundal collapsing due to lack of evidence thereof.
== Accused of Murder! ==
Main article: The Unspeakable Story
Two years after the Megundal incident, Penny later ran into Holmes, Watson and Iris in Hatch's Pawn Shop as she withdrew Megundal's coat. But Morta's son, Robert, claimed that he was the true owner of the coat and the music box disc contained within.
After a joint reasoning session and a confrontation, Tobias Gregson arrived and confiscated the disc before apprehending "Eggs Benedict" and taking him for an interrogation at Great Scotland Yard.
Afterwards, Penny returned to 221B Baker Street for dinner and a sleep-over, telling Dr. Watson that she didn't trust Holmes and that it was likely that any of his stories that were being stored in Hatch's had been sold on for cash. Watson encouraged her to have a little bit more faith in other people before she headed to bed.
That night, Penny went to Hatch's to prove to herself that Watson's manuscripts remained there, and used a gun to get Hatch to open the vault where they were contained. Suddenly, there was a noise outside as the shop was being robbed by Milverton and his friends Nemmy and Tully in search of the box required to play the music box discs.
There was a commotion and Hatch was killed, and Penny was arrested due to her being the number one suspect.
As the investigation continued, Watson and Iris visited Penny in jail, who eventually began cooperating with the two of them and told them everything about the Megundal case from two years ago. After Milverton was apprehended, Penny was allowed to go free and decided to work to become a detective-in-training herself.
== Personality ==
Penny seems to be an untrusting person due to previous bad experiences due to life on the streets of London, but eventually learns to grow more trusting of other people thanks to Holmes and Watson.
== Name ==
Her name "Penny Pincher" is reference to the fact that she is (or at least was) a pickpocket.
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