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]

[Tch... She was the only one there, so she's the only one who can offer this information, she guesses.]

Out west, there was a red marker on the ground. Past that, some kind of toy bear was sinking into the ground.

[She hesitates, then shakes her head.] Nah. Passing through it.

I tried to grab it, but it just made me feel like I was somewhere else for a second. Then I popped back here with this shit all over my hands. [They are stained black and white.]

[strawsandals]

Black and white? Did the bear have those colors or did it appear out of nowhere...?

[moonshaded]

Kinda hard to say. I couldn't really make it out while it was falling, then by the time I tried to grab it, it was basically gone.

[moodwrecker]

[People were talking about bears which was alarming but-]

Oh. It's just a toy?