Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures

[kandata]

By now everyone may be used to find themselves in bizarre locations, between going into palaces and visiting Nekyia. It might not come as a surprise that it has happened again.

What might come as a surprise, though...is how empty this place is.

All around you there's nothing more than a large, gray, featureless expanse. In the distance there seem to be bars, curving upwards to gather so, so high above you, possibly hundreds of miles above, so high it’s hard to distinguish.

It’s a cage. So unfathomably large. You could escape, were you to get to the edges of the cage, but...it would take forever. No matter how you look at it, you're trapped. The atmosphere is so...hopeless. Devoid of anything even remotely positive.

Not that you want to hang around for long, do you? After all, this is someone's palace. Not a place to stick around at. What to do, though?

It’s all so...empty. Silent. Featureless. A flat expanse of hard gray tiles.

Gather together, everyone. Gather and choose a direction. North, East, West, South. All directions look completely identical, but could it affect your time in this place, somehow? Probably not. But all treks start with the first step. Perhaps, if you get moving, you'll progress?

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[prozaic]

We found a lantern. [He raises his tail, the lantern hanging from the end of it so he can handle his staff with one hand and keep the other free.]

But more than that, we saw a single grave in an expanse of nothing.

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti's eyes lay upon the lantern, in thought. ]

...A single grave?

[ Hmm, foreboding...but still too early to make heads or tails of it. ]

[finalmix]

[ nods. he looks uncharacteristically serious, for once. ]

I think we all can guess who it belongs to.

[ he's Not saying it. ]

[beautifulknight]

Yes...perhaps so.

[ Argenti is not exactly happy at the prospect, and yet...here we are. ]

We are bound to learn the circumstances soon enough as well.

[finalmix]

[ lum i am crying why do they have the Exact Same Look in their icons ]

... [ a sigh. ]

That's always the fun part, isn't it~

[beautifulknight]

[ Simply magic of fate~! ]

...Even so, we cannot allow it to hinder our movements.

We must away.

[prozaic]

And yet I wish we did not. It's a private matter is it not? If only they were not mandatory to progress. [Then he shakes his head. He really hates these places.]

[beautifulknight]

[ Another agreement with a nod from him. ]

...At the least, we are all prepared for it, though it does not make it any better.