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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?
library results; drv3 spoiler tagging, just in case
I checked out the library downstairs 'cause I could smell blood from inside. Thanks to that, I got ambushed by some ghosts posing as the kid, if you could even call it that. Anyway, that's how I ended with that shitty excuse for a prize.
[He nudges the shirt with his foot for emphasis, before holding out a piece of bloodstained sheet music. There is some writing on the back as well, where it says, 'I will keep your piano in perfect condition until the day we escape this school.']
But I think the real prize was this. One of the ghosts tried to burn it up, and when I touched it, there was a memory of the maid seeing one of her friends getting killed in some kinda messed up show. [There's a palpable disgust that seeps into his voice when he gets to the second half of that sentence, although he's back to being calm after he got that out of his system.] Don't even think I need to mention this, but she was pretty shaken up by it too.
Besides that, there was a puddle of blood left in the library, but no body. I assume it was based on something she actually saw while she was trapped in that game, and it was connected to the friend in her memory.
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Figures that’d happen. Dunno if we’ll need to actually play anything, but if there’s any other instruments around, maybe we can use those.
[or maybe Aaron can serenade everyone with Argenti’s ocarina again because that worked magnificently last time!!!!]
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I know how to play many instruments. A little rusty, mind, but I do know how.
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Go for it, then. It’s not like we’ve got anything to lose at this point.
[Besides, what’s the worst that could happen???]
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Hmm, not that difficult, seems made for beginners. [Then he hands it back to Aaron.]
Hold this up for me to reference, please. [Don't mind the keys on the door. They look like they were painted on, but they are indeed functional. Shalem even taps at one to make sure it still makes a sound.]
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that keyboard is also pretty weird but it’s a palace so this is just par the course.]
Yeah, yeah. It better not end up dropping a bunch of t-shirts on us or something.
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Aaron can see the destruction in the room though, the piano in pieces, the shattered guitar, broken vinyls all over the floor... Shalem doesn't pay those any mind, and starts playing (14). It's simple enough to handle with one hand at first, but then he sees the new notes and crosses his left hand over his right so he doesn't have to take his right hand off of the keys and readjust.
No wonder this is for beginners. Simple, interesting, rhythmic but also with a little surprise.]
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The music room bursts on fire]
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[Okay, no.
When Shalem finishes playing, presumably with more agility than before since he's not brute forcing it this time, he'll find that yes, this is the same melody he had used earlier to open this door.
But this time, something else is happening this time. In the ruins of the music room, two people appear. One is Kirumi, the other is a blonde girl Aaron will recognize as that of the vision he had seen.
They're having a conversation.
Once it's over, they vanish, but still...it seems...Kirumi has good memories of this girl, Kaede. No wonder she had sworn to keep thiks music room spotless and the piano well taken care off. No wonder she had been horrified by what happened to Kaede]
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