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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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...Is there a way to get to the classroom with ease, or...is that going to be more complicated? ]
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It's indeed a simple place. There are many desks facing a smart whiteboard. It'd be kind of nice if it wasn't for all the ruinous features, and also the bars and barbed wires all over the windows. Wait, how are there windows in the basement?
Well, nevermind that.
One of the desks has a clipboard. Doesn't...seem anything is trying to prevent him from getting it...?]
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Argenti will not just stare at it, though. He will walk on over to where the clipboard is situated, but take in his surroundings as he does. If he does not see anything unusual (let me know if I need to roll for perception), he will just simply take a look at the clipboard.
Can he see what it says? ]
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There's only one portion that's not covered. It's a photo.
Argenti is free to take the clipboard along, though!
Please roll for perception now! You'll need at least a 12 for this one, for optional content.]
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Of Kirumi, at that.
As for Argenti, he is so tuned into the photo and the weird darkness, he doesn't notice anything else (4), alas.
He will pick up the clipboard and begin to head back! ]
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To check things a bit more thoroughly, is there anything off with the exit doors that are in the foyer, to start with? Are they unlocked? ]
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--what was that.
Up from the second floor, there was a step on a creaky floorboard. I rolled a 5, ruining the element of surprise -- whatever was up there was aiming to obliterate anyone trying to get out of the school, having judged the doors would keep anyone busy for long enough for a cheap shot to work out!
If Argenti turns around, he'll see Soujuurou up on the second floor, behind the guard rail up there]
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Did something just happen???
He looks up where Soujuurou is? Is there now a way to get up there?? ]
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One of Soujuurou's hands glow with a cold light, gathering frost. Soujuurou is gathering energy for a Bufudyne attack onto Argenti!
It misses, but it freezes the exit doors, making them creak and the wood shriek. Sure hints that if Soujuurou hits it'll be unpleasant!]
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Damn! ]
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Woah, a nick at best, but it's a hit, with an 11!]
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Argenti flings another Psio (9) which gets closer by an inch but STILL misses... ]
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Or not, really, because Argenti's attacks on the already unstable second floor makes him fall. Soujuurou had been prepared a big risk, huge reward attack, and I rolled badly. Soujuurou is hanging from one hand, and with the other, fires a mere Bufula at Argenti. If it hadn't been for the 7, the Diamond Dust from earlier would have caused havoc, but instead it's a Bufula, hitting Argenti.
Soujuurou isn't close enough to the floor to let himself drop, but he's now closer to Argenti, enabling him to physical attacks now]
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So he's going to go right ahead and go ahead after being hit by the ice spell for an immediate leap and attempted impale with his spear (20) because apparently he is not holding back here. Business as usual with the Knight of Beauty! ]
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The critical hit is such the spear skewers Soujuurou thoroughly. He had hoped to do that to Argenti, yet lo and behold, the tables turned.
Soujuurou explodes in a puff of smoke, and instead, something falls to the floor. Oh, ew. It's dazed from the critical attack, though, this is your chance!
Next roll is a success at 7-20!]
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Yuck! ]
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Well, I rolled a 9! So the Slime gets its horrible self onto Argenti but doesn't manage to hold off, instead falling back to the floor. You have been slimed, knight of beauty!]
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The psychological damage is immense and he can't attack (3) ]
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The Slime just melts into a sad puddle and does nothing for his turn, frowning]
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He's need to think long and hard about a strategy. Maybe it was the sad face or it's still the slime. Only Idrila knows. ]
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Slowly, the Slime's depondency over Argenti's rejection begins turning into wrath. How dare you be grossed out, this is a perfectly good Slime! Self-esteem, here we go!
Having self-esteem was mildly effective, because its Lunge strikes Argenti right on the chest. It's trying to throw Argenti to the floor, to probably attempt to suffocate Argenti with its weight. It hasn't succeeded quite yet, but that's the strategy]
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HE'S GETTING MORE SLIME ALL OVER HIM AAAAA NOOOOOO!!
There is no more hesitation or clownfoolery here. Argenti tries to brutally stab it to death (15) ]
Be vanquished in the name of Beauty!
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The Slime is stabbed to death. Even though it's almost a fluid, yet the sword stabs it to death. Soon, the Slime is no more.
Argenti has killed Soujuurou! There's the sound of a camera shutter.
From high above, a black and white piece of paper flutters down at him:]
'I can't do the same gag three times in a row'.
[What the hell is Monokuma talking about, Argenti won't know, but players beyond the fourth wall will]
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Just kidding! ]
...What?
[ Anyway he doesn't get it, but he will look around for anything else. If there is nothing in the weeds or whatnot along the walls, Argenti will head back to the others. ]