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]

[...huh? The shape is the right one, the size is the right one too, but...

...for some reason, getting the shard into the empty space is proving very difficult. Like it just refuses to get in.

Looks like you can't get it done without applying more strength. You're going to have to really, really force it in there! Probably would require too much force for one single person to do it!]

[prozaic]

[Well, looks like Aaron is having some trouble with that... Shalem steps forward to help.]

Here, allow me. [He puts his hand on one end of the shard and pushes down as much as he can (18).]

[idealitas]

[ Yi Sang will hold the vase down for those two, since it's kind of fragile-looking with all of those cracks (13). ]

[imperiosity]

[but what if he wanted to go full scorched earth and decided to break it again so they could piece the dumb thing together with the rectangle!!!!

but okay fine. Especially with Shalem and Yi Sang stepping in to help, he’ll keep pushing at it too.]

[kandata]

[Even with three adults pushing down, trying to force it in, it seems to resist. The surface of the vase seems to get tense, the cracks widen, and all of a sudden--

It goes in.There's a strong, resounding crack noise, almost deafening. The entire vase warps.



Congrats, people! You have a GROTESQUE VASE.

Something's peeking out of the vase. It's a tablet, the back with the same design Aaron had seen on the inner side of the shard. Doesn't take more than a touch for a video to play in the tablet.

It's...definitely from Monokuma.

You have obtained a motive video.

At the same time, from near where the ginbap and tteoboki was at, the rocks of the wall of the cavern move aside, unveiling a way deeper into the cavern.

Looks like you're done over here!]