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

[moonshaded]

If that's a puzzle, it's a bullshit one.

[BUT NOT TO ME, NICK! IT'S JUST FOR THE BIT.]

Maybe put something in it? Like a flower.

[imperiosity]

Don't see any flowers on this side, but...

[That does give him an idea, though??]

Have any of those paper dolls with you? Send a couple up if you do.

[moonshaded]

... Yeah, all right.

[After some deliberation and a bit of fiddling with the machine, since she didn't really watch what Argenti was doing), she will send over 1 Kirumi-styled ("MYSELF") doll, one regular person doll, and one zero doll.]

Get 'em?

[imperiosity]

Yeah, thanks. I'll be right back.

[doot doot doot there he goes to experiment and then fail!!!]

Guess that would've been too easy. Looks like adding shit on top just flattens her instead. Looks like the dirt itself is supposed to represent the maid.

[Which, like, he doesn't want to read too much into it but...]

[moonshaded]

[But.]

So clean it? But that'd get rid of her...

[She doesn't sound confident in that suggestion whatsoever, just puzzled.]