Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures

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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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[Oh,goodness! I like that song. I have to bookmark it.

The piano sounds absolutely perfect. Unlike the door, it having been off-key, the piano is well tuned, spotless. The music Shalem plays sounds amazing in it.

In fact...the entire music room is very clean. The building looks abandoned, weeds and dust everywhere, but this music room...it's different. Every inch of it is well taken care of.
By the time Shalem finishes the song, he will notice a black band placed on top of the piano. He might not have seen it earlier because it's black on a black surface, but it's there]