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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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Yeah, he's getting a deluge of books -- but it could be worse, because the wisps tried to set them on fire before pushing them, and that failed. It's normal books, more fitting as a blunt weapon than as an incendiary object. The sight of Aaron not being on fire via book burning makes Eli scowl]
I can't do anything right...
[He runs straight at Aaron, intending to brawl it, leaving himself wide open to attacks. Success for Aaron's next turn is 5-20]
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He may not have the full context for book burning, but he does have a (mental) book full of burns that he’s willing to deliver right now!!]
Looks to me like you’re doing pretty well at getting your ass beat, so lemme give you another hand with that!
[or maybe that’s just being a sick. In any case, after metaphorically kicking knock-off Eli (Kelli??) while he’s down, he follows that up with an actual kick, right to the face (17).]
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It's as if the kick made something unstable into Eli's entire self, because he falls to the floor, trembling, but unable to fight.
Aaron, if he's perceptive enough, may hear the noise of a camera taking a picture. Immediately afterwards, Eli explodes.
Not literally, really. It's a puff of smoke, and then where he used to be, there are about five will-o-wisp demons, glaring at Aaron. No wonder they had been gone, they were busy becoming Eli.
One of them fires Agi, and this one does set things on fire effectively. A bookcase burst into flames, and the dry paper starts spreading all over the place! Oh, not good!
The good news is that a will-o-wisp is tremendously weak and therefore you don't have to target them individually, your attacks probably will hit the entire group]
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Aaron won't lose his balance nor he's in actual danger of being pushed, but he's got ghostly fire against him. That's scalding hot! Watch out for burns from contact, any fabric is starting to get singed!]
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He likes his clothes so he’s going to try and sidestep around the wisps so he doesn’t end up on fire!! He also makes a swing with one of his swords but of course Avrae stops cooperating the moment you basically lay out an easy kill for him because I roll a 4. Weeeeeee]
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The lone wisp, seeing all of its companions are now gone, would sweat if it wasn't a hot (and not in the sexy way for aaron) ember floating around. Instead, it glances at what's beyond the pool of blood -- the paper Aaron had seen earlier. The wisp looks at Aaron and then hurries to float over there, to try to reach it, planning to incinerate the one thing in this library that could be of any use to anyone.
It's such a spiteful move! There goes the wisp, to try to get there!]
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anyways, he will of course go after it!! I assume rolls don’t matter much here but here’s a badly aimed garu (8) in the vicinity of the wisp to hopefully finish it off!!]
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You know what, I'll make it matter. Aaron's misaimed garu spell makes a bunch of papers fly in the air, hitting Aaron in the face and smearing dust and ink across his face. He looks like instead of walking he crawled on his face all the way across the library. That, coupled with the scorch marks from the wisps attacking you from up-close, means Aaron is in a very sorry state right now!
But the wisp is dead. You're done!. The doors of the library open, and from above a t-shirt descends at Aaron. It has Monokuma giving a thumbs up. 'I KILLED ELI AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT']
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this is the worst loot he could have gotten!! is it even in his size………
he debates just leaving it there but as a jrpg character he’s compelled to pick it up even if he definitely doesn’t want it!! maybe he’ll light it up once he’s in a less flammable place.
anyways, there’s nothing stopping him from actually investigating unless you decide to jumpscare me with something else I guess!! so let’s take a look at that paper that was lying near/in the blood pool]
Danganronpa V3 Spoilers
When Aaron picks up the paper, he'll find it's a music score. When he picks up, he gets a fleeting vision.
Danganronpa V3 spoilers
A luminous place, full of cogs. A gigantic piano. Fourteen teenagers around her, all of them watching something that's currently at the keys of the piano.
It's a girl. A blonde girl, being suspended with a rope by the neck, while Monokuma, as an orchestra director, directs other more colorful stuffed bears to move the girl around, making her press keys.
It doesn't take much thought to know what that kind of damange that can do to anyone's neck.
A sensation of horror, utter revulsion, and strong grief fills Aaron -- feelings Kirumi probably felt at that time. She watched the execution, until the girl wasn't moving...and the keyboard of the piano snaps shut, squishing the girl.
On the back of the score, there's something written with Kirumi's neat handwriting.
'I will keep your piano in perfect condition until the day we escape this school.'
The vision proves one thing very clearly: even though Kirumi kept a strong, stoic face in front of adversity, she's just as vulnerable as any other person. She was...just a teenager in a place full of horror. Incredible maid or not, she was just a teenager, with the reactions of one]
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…In any case, he will hold on to that sheet of paper. Is there anything else notable in the area? Otherwise he is still curious about the blood pool so he will poke around there anyway but I don’t know how relevant it will be!!]
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Depending on how perceptive Aaron might be, he'll notice this place he's at is...a crime scene. The scene of a murder. That girl in the memory certainly didn't die here in a library, so knowing that, coupled with the explanation Sayaka gave...
...yeah, there's only one conclusion there. Is it relevant? Well, it's not vital, but it fills some blanks]
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In any case, is there anything off about the other bookshelves or the books specifically?]
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