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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[bloodweapon]

[Since Fray has been here the whole time (don't worry about it), he may as well see what his score would be. After all, he's morbidly curious.

So he steps in front of one of the cameras, waiting on the response.]

[kandata]

[Hello, Fray! Oh, the camera focuses on him, ready to evaluate him. The lens is right onto him, extending a little]

Name.

[Now, what question to ask...despite the static, enough of it can be heard for Fray to know what's being asked;]

----something you want to protect-----ost of your own life?

[Is there anything you'd die to protect, Fray?]

[bloodweapon]

Fray Myste.

[As for that question... Well, that's obvious.]

My loved ones - I would lay down my life for them.

[kandata]

[.........

For some reason, it takes longer for Fray to get a response, compared to the rest, like whatever entity is behind the cameras are mulling what he said. In the end, the camera turns off, and from above, there's his feedback]

'Candidate FRAY. Has a lot to protect. Type of person who would garner interest. Cons: needs further discussion.

Rating: 7/10. Pending on discussion about the [Unintelligible]

[...but hey, it's...is a high rating really a good thing? Who knows, who knows]

[bloodweapon]

[Huh! A higher score than he was expecting. But now he's morbidly curious about what they were saying that he couldn't hear!!! There's no winning with these cameras, is there...]