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

[moodwrecker]

[It's frustrating, watching Kirumi lie and cheat and flee, cowardly, strategic moves to the end, but-

Honestly? Even now, she has no regrets.]

Pretty sure we already figured that one out for ourselves.

[Obviously Kirumi had gone through with it - that's precisely why Aubrey didn't want to.

If Kirumi herself was fine playing along, then that's that. But Aubrey isn't, and won't.]

...So? What now?

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti remains remarkably silent through all of that, his eyes watching what happen with an indescribable emotion, before he turns towards Aubrey. ]

...We make our own way forward.

[ However that looks like, but the spider's threads are right before them. ]

[moodwrecker]

...That's the only thing we can do, huh.

[imperiosity]

[His eyes follow the threads, trying to determine what’s actually above them. But after a while he gives up and starts glancing around to see if there’s anything else useful besides bones.]

Tch. If I knew this was gonna happen, I woulda asked for rope.

[moodwrecker]

Does a rope even count as a weapon?

[imperiosity]

Eh, you could probably spin it somehow. Maybe we'd get a ball of rope that someone could swing.

[moodwrecker]

A weapon on a rope could be handy. It could catch on something higher up for us.