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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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Aubrey is looking around some more and probably stumbles on the Bathroom while doing so.]
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Because honestly, I think there's reasons not to trust it. It looks relatively intact, other than the plants breaking through the tiles and also one stall being clearly out of service.
There's a line of sinks, and a large mirror over them. The mirror looks like it has seen better days.
A quick sweep all over the place shows...nothing. Nothing of use.
Unless you look from the corner of your eye all of a sudden and notice you're not alone. Well, although it can't be said you have company, really. It's a vague, almost unnoticeable silhouette in the mirror.
It...looks vaguely like Kirumi]
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Can she make out what Kirumi('s silhouette) is up to?]
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...it seems to be, because it moves in the mirror, adjusting position to be just a little bit closer. It puts a hand on her side of the mirror.
There's silence only in this bathroom. That and an aura of...wistfulness radiating from the mirror.
So much wistfulness]
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Well. The Ai memory turned out to be a Shadow, so while she does move to look at the mirror head on in hopes of seeing the silhouette better, she's still maintaining some distance, her bat at the ready.
She does however completely fail her perception roll so y'know (1)]
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For a moment it's silent, until.....]
...I think...I can only answer two questions. Hurry, please...!
[That's Kirumi's voice, no doubt]
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Kirumi?!
[-Wait don't take that as a question.]
Where are you?
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From the mirror, comes the answer:]
...I don't know. Nowhere. I'm...nowhere now.
[The silhouette fades a little. Oh, no wonder it had said only two questions at most. It's like that bit of contact with someone took a lot of effort.
One question more, Aubrey!]
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...Well, wherever you are, we'll find you. We're coming to save you, no matter what that stupid bear says.
...That said, he did say a body was discovered. Do we need to do something about that, and if so, what?
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Hard to describe that sensation.
It's happening because the tone this silhouette has is...eager]
When a body is discovered, people investigate and a trial is performed to figure out the culprit. Everybody throws theories, discuss evidence, and then--the culprit is discovered, and--!
[The silhouette stops. There's a tense silence until she adds, forlorn:]
...I...I shouldn't have wanted to be part of all that. I don't know who you are or what's going on with you, but if you're thinking to be part of the world: don't. Don't join them. It wasn't worth it.
[While the silhouette fades, she repeats it:]
...it really wasn't worth it.
[And then it's gone and doesn't appear again.
Odd answers, eh?]
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