We didn't exactly go around advertising for help out in the open. It just happened upon us most of the time. If we tell everyone that we're looking for unsavory sorts who want to join our pirate crew, we'll have a hoard of heroes trying to stop us all of the time.

[This place seems to favor the hero-types more than anything. While she's fine being the bad guy, Velvet doesn't want to fail before they even manage to start.]

Eleanor disapproved of a lot of things we did but had to go along with it because of our deal. [She could technically still order the girl around but...] She won't have any moral dilemmas this way.