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]

Hmm. It values truth and straightforward answers? [Then he looks around, at the collection of people here. Takes a deep sigh. This is going to be painful for him. Very, very much so.

Then he steps in front of one camera.]

[kandata]

[Well, here we go!]

Name?

[Now, what question will be fired at Shalem today.........]

----define----urself in one word. Just one.

[Oh! That was clearer than other questions, probably because it's such a straightforward request]

[prozaic]

Shalem. Falsehood. [Because what else can he call himself? Everything about him is a lie.]

[kandata]

[........

The camera turns off. Oh, there comes your evaluation? Did you get accepted? Did you get rejected?]

'Candidate SHALEM could be interesting to include. Clever. Pending on the rest of the candidates approved. Interactions between SHALEM and other candidates must be evaluated-- [Unintelligible text] --Cons: [Unintelligible text] --about false people are cliché.

Rating: PENDING. Contact at a later date for follow-up questions.'

[......well that's not a rejection? Doesn't seem like a bad thing, at least]

[prozaic]

[WOW that is actually kinda

rude

But at least it's not like Argenti's score.]