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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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Look! Thermal vision! There's so much in this kitchen that's from lukewarm to piping hot, courtesy of Arven. However! At the very back, something is colder than the rest.
McGillis won't know what it is, but he'll know the general location.
As for layout, the kitchen is lined with counters and appliances, and a long island in middle of the space. Tough for moving! But doesn't look like a sturdy enough island to stop you, it probably will break. That's a risk for the Exisal, though. Feel like taking a calculated risk?]
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And more importantly, does he spot Arven? ]
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Watch out, everyone, Arven is at the end of the kitchen. Looks like his strategy is to try to keep you all from getting to him. He's close to whatever is to be obtained from here, as if guarding it.
McGillis pushes some of the island aside. Somehow, it shatters as if it had been made of toothpicks. No damage against the Exisal. One third of the island is broken.
The sight of the Exisal seems to freak out Arven, inflicting fear on him.
Arven grabs several eggs and, propelling them with a garu spell, they're thrown across the kitchen, aiming for the Exisal's sensors. The edges of McGillis' vision are obscured, he having failed on this intent by a little bit.
What's your move, everyone?]
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Well. He doesn't like that at all, so he'll lower Arven's agility. Yikes. ]
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Don't ruin...my kitchen!
....
...also die!
[This fake at least did a token effort to act like Arven. Badly, but it tried. Eyeing something he assembled to his left, tied to the ovens near the entrance, he tries to get there, throwing a garudyne at Yoon. Well! It's a hit, despite the reduced speed!]
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But the death threat is all he needs to confirm that this Arven isn't real. Arven would never.
Yoon attacks with Dragon's Claw (18). Go away, imposter!!! ]
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He can't reach the ovens and use those against Yoon, but instead...he brandishes a bowl of dubious food. So dubious it's pixellated. If there were doubts this isn't Arven, they would be destroyed with the sight of that.
Arven slams the dubious food onto Yoon's face, causing psychic damage to Yoon, as if it were a Psio attack. How is Arven such an effective fighter despite fear and reduced speed?! Geez]
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Aubrey will go ahead and buff the Exisal's defenses with a Rakukaja.]
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Luckily, Monokuma thought it'd be a waste of time to make a false Mabosstiff. Instead, there's a stock bark noise from direction of the fridge, it opening and unleashing a deluge of icy water onto Aubrey, intending to harm via cold burns.
That works better for Arven than it should have, it was a 13]
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This is so weird.
[But she'll try to take a swing at the fridge, only to do no damage because she only rolled a 2!]
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[Hey, Aubrey, have a Dia for your troubles--what the fuck is wrong with that fridge???]
...If it's attacking us like this, then maybe...
[...Sayaka attacks the fridge with her sword (12). Surely if it's attacking Aubrey then it's just a shadow in disguise???]
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Sayaka's sword hits the fridge, the door falling off its hinges. When that happens, the fridge breaks, the broken door when the demon emerges from the fridge, this heavy piece of fridge barely missing Sayaka from so close her hair is moved by the displaced air, and the door hit Argenti right on the chest.
This thingy had barely appeared from the fridge when Argenti's Psio destroys it, the weak Shadow defeated now that it had no fridge to hide in.
Well! Looks like this minor obstacle is cleared!]
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The fridge apparently didn't like the intent to harm. Some of its workings short-circuit, sparks of electricity attempting to give Aubrey a shock. Missed, she not having been close enough for that, but it really tried, a sound effect of a growl sounding from the appliance]
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[or at least a robo dog?! Oh well, he’s using a Garula (12) on the fridge.]
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McGillis advances, trying to get more of the kitchen island out of the way and get Arven within reach, but he winds up misstepping on the remnants of the already-shattered island and giving Arven an opening to get out of dodge. (6) ]
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Does it say good things about Arven that despite the fear, it still manages to dare to approach the mecha instead of trying to flee? He goes there with a can opener, jamming it onto the lid keeping the cockpit closed, and with the outrageous strength of being an abomination currently shaped like Arven, he starts trying to force the cockpit open to get McGillis out of there.
It's...it's not successful, but it's a little too close for comfort.
Watch out, attacks onto Arven will have an increased chance of hitting the Exisal too for a short while!]
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[ Arven may be trying to get into the cockpit, sure, but approaching the Exisal just means that McGillis is spared the effort of going to catch Arven by himself.
Because the Exisal has a lot of strength, the one great feature McGillis has been able to figure out this far. And he'll use that strength to... grab Arven and try to crush him. (16) ]
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It's, luckily for him, enough to make the fingers open, McGillis seeing readings of minor damage to those, but it's nothing that will impede function. As far as attacks onto McGillis go, it wasn’t a good one.
Watch out, though! Arven takes out a sandwich, planning to heal himself fully. This foe may not have a lot of health, but still, unless struck by someone at this point he'll heal himself and that's always annoying.
Three tries to stop him, one per person (3 people max)]
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[Sorry, he's not going to do anything because he's more interested in watching the chaos.]
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Arven, fueled by fear, looks in direction of Shalem and ponders if moving by Shalem would be a good escape route!]
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He reaches out and snatches the boy around the waist with one strong arm (19). Gotcha!]
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Arven failed to escape]