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

[prozaic]

Failing a test, hmm. But, then, what if we all take a test and the cameras shut off? What if that's a... [What do the gamers call it... Nope he can't think of the word right now, he doesn't make friends with the gamers of Rhodes Island.] A stalemate?

[finalmix]

A stalemate is better than a loss, though?

[prozaic]

A stalemate wouldn't resolve this place, I don't think.

[kandata]

[Woah! Aubrey over there has approached a camera, perhaps to smash it into smitheerens, and when trying to avoid its gaze she accidentally makes the tripod shift. It's enough to put Joshua in the camera's sight.

Unlike the others, what Joshua first hears is a sigh. Apparently whatever overworked entity is behind the cameras already is against Joshua, having sensed the reticence to cooperate]

Name?

[The question comes barely giving Joshua time to answer]

-------------------then why---------satisfied with your life or-----

[Probably for the best the quality of sound is so bad, given how much was unintelligible, but there's enough of the question for Joshua to know what it might be asking]

[finalmix]

[ hm. sorry overworked and tired camera person but even if joshua's cooperating it will take him a while once he realises that there's no real way to get out of this, huh. ]

Yoshiya Kiryu.

[ hm x2 ]

You're asking stupid questions.

[ sure, he heard the question but that doesn't mean he's going to answer them if it means being Perceived ]

[kandata]

[Before the camera turns off there's another sigh. Woah, there comes your evaluation!]

'Candidate: YOSHI KAKYOIN. Pros: none. Cons: lacking in interest and cooperation. Would need complete rework.

Rating: 0/10. Rejected.'

[Wao]

[finalmix]

[ that gets a laugh out of him. ]

Can't even get my name right.