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?

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[strawsandals]

[ Yoon is going to examine the machine. He's not a tech person, but what can he gather at a first glance? Any text, imagery...? ]

[kandata]

[The top part of the machine shines with 'MONOMONO MACHINE'. Inside, Yoon can see gacha capsules. How quaint! It'd be cute if it wasn't for how this is obviously something from a killing game!

A smaller screen on the front, is displaying a message, and an arrow pointing to a microphone:]

'Ask for a blunt weapon of your choice'.

[Yikes]

[strawsandals]

[ b...bruh... Mister Pacifist here doesn't want a weapon?!?!

But for the sake of science or something... ]

...A hammer?

[kandata]

[Yoon will see a gacha ball descend down the spiral ramp, until it exits the machine. If he doesn't catch the capsule, it'll crash against the ground. Regardless of how the capsule is opened, he'll obtain...

...a perfectly usable hammer! Shiny and new. Very deadly, if used in certain ways]

[strawsandals]

[ He will hang onto it, but he will not be using it on Kirumi. He'd rather use it on that bear instead... ]

[prozaic]

[Wanders here, leaves a crowbar in front of Yoon, leaves. His only elaboration is:]

Use this if you see something that needs prying open.

[strawsandals]

[







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Th...thanks, Shalem?!

[imperiosity]

[wow, how ominous?? he’d be more confused about the physics-defying logic in keeping a bunch of weapons in a bunch of tiny capsules, but he accepts that this is a palace and it has its own rules.

either way, he’s curious about how far they can stretch the definition of blunt weapon, so:]

A stripper pole.

[kandata]

[There comes the gacha capsule!

When Aaron opens the capsule, he gets a smooth pole with a special material for increased grip onto it. It's accompanied by a note:

'What's wrong with you.'

Very rich, coming from something that's related to Monokuma in some way]

[imperiosity]

[curses why couldn't he have had the foresight to order 50 more of these so they could've made a stripper pole ladder instead of climbing threads]

[beautifulknight]

...A flashlight!

[ Anything is a blunt weapon if you think hard enough! ]

[kandata]

[That's true, really!

When the capsule opens, there's a flashlight, although it seems to be made of flimsy plastic. Apparently the monomono machine doesn't put much stock on the possibility of using a flashlight as a blunt weapon.

The flashlight isn't working. There's something taped on it:

'Smear with blood to make it functional']

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti will save it for tossing it at this UPPITY BEAR- ]

[prozaic]

[Well, given the machine doesn't think much of Argenti's request...

Here. Have a crowbar dumped at your feet before Shalem wanders off.]

[beautifulknight]

[ He suddenly has a useless flashlight and a crowbar. TWO items to throw at Monobear... ]