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

[prozaic]

[He'll approach the machine! Hey, if it gives free weapons, why turn them down?]

[kandata]

[Welcome to the Monomono machine! What's your order, Shalem?

The screen still asks for blunt weapons, the arrow pointing at the microphone]

[prozaic]

A crowbar. [Let's get something that's multi-use, shall we? Better in many situations than his staff.]

[kandata]

[A gacha capsule descends down the spiral ramp. After opening it, Shalem will obtain a nice, shiny crowbar!

Doesn't seem like there's a catch here, it's a genuine weapon]

[prozaic]

[He'll hang around a little longer after picking it up!]

Any chance you'll allow me to have one more? [He is absolutely pushing his luck.]

[kandata]

[A second gacha capsule descends, and Shalem gets a second crowbar!

Wow, this is a weapons bounty. You could get 9999999 crowbars from this machine if you wanted]

1/2

[prozaic]

[... OH. Okay. Okay. Please hold--]

2/2 :)

[prozaic]

One more please!

[kandata]

[After the third capsule descends, on the screen appears the word LUCKY, and another capsule comes as well.

Shalem has four crowbars now. It's his lucky day, it seems!]

[prozaic]

[Perhaps it's time to stop.

Shalem gives a bow to the machine and runs off to distribute the crowbars--]

[moonshaded]

You starting a business? [Why the fuck do you need that many?]