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?

Comments

[vogelfrei]

[ Well, all of what everyone said is foreboding and absolutely unpleasant.

But there really is only one path forward for them, isn't there...? ]

We should follow the map. There is nothing to be gained by waiting around here.

[idealitas]

I agree.

[beautifulknight]

...Then, let's go ahead in following the map.

Onwards in the northwest direction.

[ No sense in dallying here indeed! ]

[destage]

...I agree, McGillis-san. We should press forward. Whatever happens, our priority should be getting to Tojo-san.

[Terrified as she is of the realizations this could bring--this is for Tojo-san. ]