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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[moonshaded]

A stuffed one? Yeah, I did.

[She holds up her hands; they are also stained with black and white.]

Felt soft...and a little warm. Fell into the floor.

[finalmix]

[ adding himself to the got their hands stained with black and white group ]

I tried to clean off the grave since it wasn't maintained.

[moonshaded]

[That's probably fine. Nothing bad will come from this.]

Do you think it's important? The stuff with the ink on it.

[destage]

[It's instantaneous, the way Sayaka freezes up at that. Oh. Oh this is bad--she connecting dots together in ways that she really doesn't like, and it's clear on her face that there's a bolt of recognition.]

...I wonder what it looked like. You wouldn't have happened to have gotten a good look at it, would you?

I...only ask, because of something I talked about with someone on the network. Something we both recognized.