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Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures
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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WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT. There's no time to think, just act. Shalem is quick on his feet, dodging the swing (16) and tossing himself to the side, skidding to a halt with his tail flailing.
Then he looks up at her, brows furrowing.]
Do not do that to an instrument! [He has his priorities straight.]
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The piano cracks open and explodes! Debris hits Shalem but it won't cause as much damage as this Ai hoped it would]
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NOT THE PIANO-- [The Troupe would have had her head for this, if she did it in their presence.
But Shalem decides it's time to get out of this room before more poor, innocent instruments get caught in the crossfire. However, his exit is less than stellar, because he stumbles out through the door (10), might even bump into Joshua and Aubrey in his haste. Either way, he's slowed down as he leaves the room.]
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[Ai doesn't even try to pretend to be her. She pursues Shalem, back to the starting area! She still has the acoustic guitar, and quite reveals a couple vinyl CDs in a very bombastic manner, throwing them like frisbees at Shalem. Watch out, the edges are sharp!
But her aim isn't sharp, she misses by a mile. Shalem's slowness, though, means she gets a free swing of her guitar weapon, which she also misses.
Maybe this fake Ai just sucks at fighting]
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Ma'am, I really have to ask you to put the thing down-- gently, mind!
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It wasn't gentle.
It was critical, in fact (20)
The guitar shatters in impact, completely unusable.
Whoooops]
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Whoa, hey! [What, exactly, the fuck? She hasn't received the warning about shadow teenagers (and Ai) yet, either, so her first move is to try and restrain the girl by her arms (12).]
What the hell is your problem?!
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Let...go...!
[She shouts, squirming, but is unable to get herself away from Kainé. Woah! You have captured Ai, and she finds herself at the mercy of Kainé.
It takes a bit, but Ai loses all fight, just...breathing heavily and glaring at Kainé like she wishes she had a second guitar at hand right now so another head gets the brunt of it.
Watch out, Kainé. Ai will attack at the first chance she gets]
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"Discovered" my ass! Like I didn't watch her brain the guy from over there.
[But also more importantly, there's no "body" about it. She looks down to Shalem and calls out to him. Please don't actually be dead, she thinks, but what comes out it a little more forceful.]
Hey! Get up so we can figure out what's gotten into her.
[Shalem will receive what may be Kainé's first and only in-game cast of Dia, but this does mean that Ai can probably wiggle away and plot her counterattack.]
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However, he's not totally awake enough to try casting anything, he's just struggling to get up.]
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Get back here -!
[But the Shadow Ai has already slipped away, and before Kainé can lunge after her, she retaliates. That Zyodine hurts, so when she goes for a Lunge to snap her out of it so she can be pinned back down again, it misses terribly (3).]
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What the- are the Shadows copying us now, too?!
[Charging for Ai to hit her with a Giant Slice (15). Fortunately, since she saw Ai in the room earlier, she's assuming this is just a figment of the Palace.]
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Ai misses so miserably she gets dirt on her own face. She's defenseless! Next attacks from them three are a guaranteed hit!]
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Something’s up! Is this a Shadow? But why would it look like one of us and not some twisted memory bullshit?
[Maybe they ran out of dreams to desecrate. Usually, an enemy falling to the ground like that would have her kicking until it didn’t get up again, but since she’s still crispy, she uses her freebie on a Psio for the magic damage.]
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[Giant slice worked before - let's just do that again!]
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That's too much for Ai. With a puff of smoke, Ai loses its cohesion, and turns into one Onmoraki. It looks pretty pissed off!]
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[How rude of the Shadow to be imitating it! She would be pissed off, too, if she looked as bad as that ugly MFer.
But seeing that ugly form and hearing Aubrey’s story removes any limitations on an all-out offensive.
At least, it should, but switching back to a physical attack (3) makes Kainé’s swing miss wildly. Maybe she should stick to the psychic stuff?]
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[Fortunately, Aubrey has a better time in the aiming department - she'll try hitting it with a Bufula (15) for medium Ice damage!]
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He summons Orpheus, and casts Danse Macabre (16), little origami birds made of ice bombarding the Onmoraki. Ill-advised, but instinct makes him reach for the magic rather than a weapon in a fight even when his brain hasn't engaged yet.]
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Seeing them three about to attack, though, is enough to make the cowardly demon decide to flee, fluttering its little featherless wings away. Kainé's missed attack makes it squawk, vulnerable to Aubrey's ice damage and Shalem's special Danse Macabre!
This thing gets obliterated! From above, three rags flutter down. They're rags because let's face it, a t-shirt divided into three pieces can't be called a t-shirt anymore. Monokuma is the only thing that didn't get torn apart, though, instead each piece has his grinning visage nice and intact on it, to the point it's covering most of the fabric of each piece. Enjoy!]
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She looks at Shalem, who still doesn’t look very with it. And she can’t say she blames him; Kainé is anything but a healer.]
You hit the floor like a bag of rocks. How’re you feeling? [Hopefully his musical adventures gave him something to show for it, too.]
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A body has been discovered! Please gather at the east wing of the first floor.
[And there's the snap of a picture.
For the record, that speaker announcement was not broadcasted all over the place, it was just for this starting area and nowhere else. Nobody will come because of it, yup]