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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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what does it say? ]
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'I want to be more. Anything is better than completely nothing.']
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soujuurou hums, seeing if there's anything else on the vase. ]
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Where does one go from here, really?]
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start dumping the dirt back in the vase. he knows he won't get everything, but he'll do as much as he can. he's a very patient young man. ]
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Because yeah, Soujuurou is able to get vase contents back into the generic vase. He may not get all of it, leading to Kirumi's silhouette looking a tad patchy. The painting over there, it has Kirumi's pixel self again too, but it has dirt stains all over it, from the cave's dirt. There even is a pebble stuck to the side of the head, it having gotten into the vase while Soujuurou got it all back in it.
This sure is a fine how do you do, eh? But doesn't seem like there are lasting consequences! You're back to square one: a generic vase with sad dirt...but now you have a bit of extra data, about what the inside of the vase had written inside it]
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[Does anything else happen if he places the paper dolls Kainé gave him in the vase? Maybe it's the power of friendship or something okay!!! and the Kirumi doll is idk extra self-esteem]
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The dolls barely fit inside the vase, since there's all the dirt inside, but they're paper dolls. Shoving them in should be easy enough, especially if you're not all that worried about them keeping their cone shape.
The silhouette of Kirumi that had been walking all over the surface of the vase is now squished against the ground, like someone placed a lot of pillows on her. Can't even move.
The painting has gained a weird collage-like appearance, with a background of crumpled paper. In the painting there's a big zero all over the pixel Kirumi, and the flashlight that had been pointed at it is now held by Kirumi the maid, almost photo realistic. The normal person doll is just smashed over the entire thing in a way that's so distracting to look at.
I wish I could illustrate things nicely on the spot to show how kind of silly this all looks]
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Don't tell me we need to use the flashlight again...
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[ Hands Aaron the flashlight? Go ham, buddy. ]
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Thanks.
[Anyways, he's going to try shining the flashlight on that Kirumi silhouette on the vase, then?! If nothing happens, he'll also remove the Kirumi doll from the mix before trying the flashlight without it.]
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And what happens is that the GENERIC VASE freaking explodes.
Really, literally, it exploded. Aaron had it, shone the light onto it, and the vase cracked and its shards flew!
Thankfully, the shards seem to still be in the general area, and they look pretty big. They already look different, though. The color is different, and a few of them seem to have writing on them. Three of them do, in fact.
It's recommended different people pick up those three shards]
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Shit!
[Well, he probably has a few nice cuts all over from a couple shards striking him, since he wasn't exactly holding it at a distance. Because why the fuck would anyone expect the vase to goddamn explode smh!!
Anyways, he'll go to retrieve one of the shards, but also uh. What happened to the dirt...]
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Grab one of the shards, Aaron. It has something inscribed inside, and as if its importance needs to be remarked, something using Monokuma's voice reads what's inscribed there, with neutral enunciation:]
You are Aaron Wei. How do you want others to see you?
[Kind of introspective!]
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Monokuma's voice instantly raises his hackles for a moment, although once he registers the tone of the question, he settles down easily enough. There's a slight snort before he starts speaking, though.]
Doesn't really matter, does it? People are gonna have their opinions no matter what, so I'm not gonna bend over backwards to change myself for others.
[Maybe that's kind of skirting the question, but it's his first instinct to answer this way.]
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You are Yi Sang. What talent do you wish you had?
[You got your question!]
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You are Shalem. What do you loathe the most about yourself?
[All questions in these shards seem to be about accusing the reader of being discontent with themselves, one way or another, but Shalem's is very straightforward on that regard]
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cw: death (but not suicide) ideation, violent thoughts
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Still he looks at the others, still clutching his shard, the note, and the tubes of glue, and goes right back to work like he hadn't just bared his soul to literal air.]
Shall I assume we're meant to put the vase back together, or does anyone have any other ideas?
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Don’t exactly see what else we could use this glue on, so it sounds like a plan to me.
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What happens if he puts like. The memo he got from the dormitories in here. ]
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By now, Aaron probably took out two of the dolls and left the MYSELF one in there, so there should be space for the note. When he does, the words of the note appear onto the vase, as if they were floating in front of Kirumi's silhouette. She has stopped.
She's...observing it. Perhaps she's recognizing the handwriting.
...and, not understanding what it all means, she continues her walking. Well! It's more of a reaction than other things got, but still, picture you're minding your own business, and then all around you letters appear and you read a message that's floating in the air. It'd be such a surreal moment, eh? No wonder she stopped for a moment, hah]
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