Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures

[kandata]

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?

Comments

[kandata]

[Effective! And sure makes Arven focus on Yoon]

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!]

[strawsandals]

[ He'd been too scared to attack, even if this Arven is fake...

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!!! ]

[kandata]

[Like all the other fakes, it doesn’t believe in dodging. The attack hits him directly, throwing Arven against the back wall. He slides down, furious and hurt.

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]

[idealitas]

[ Yi Sang will go heal poor Yoon with a Diarahan because oof. ]

[strawsandals]

Hey-

[ OW?? That really hurts, actually! God! Thankfully Yi Sang is here, though... ]

Thank you...!

[ And he will bite back with another Dragon's Claw (14)! ]

[kandata]

[Yoon is too effective with the Dragon's Claw. Arven is thrown to the floor, outmatched by it, and decides Yoon is too much for him.

To flee, Arven throws a Garudyne at Yoon, hitting successfully because somehow the reduced speed didn't prevent that, and he flees to get McGillis out of the cockpit of the Exisal. We all know how that went for Arven, eh?]