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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[kandata]

[Mabufula, got it, I'll have to remember that happened. I can use that!

One of the ice crystals covers the fire, extinguishing it. The thread has burned until up to the third leg, but it's not like Shalem will be returning downwards. That should be no problem.

Shalem gets to the last leg. If he can overcome this, he'll get to the edge of the pit!

There's a strange image where the threads hook with the ceiling. It's like a sun. Shalem might see it, and when he does, he'll see it's starting to shine brighter, and brighter, and brighter! It's trying to blind Shalem. Even if he closes his eyes...does he really want to close his eyes while he's hanging from a thread twelve stories high?

It's the last stretch, Shalem, pray the dice helps!]

[prozaic]

[Fuck Monokuma's scheming, because even as it's getting more and more difficult to see, he refuses to stop. It's just a climb and he's so close. If he goes blind after this, so be it, as long as he gets out of the pit. (17)]

[kandata]

[Shalem soon reaches the edge of the pit, able to pull himself up. There's no danger up there! Monokuma is nowhere to be seen near him. Not too far, there's huge doors that just have FINAL BOSS aura.

Take a breather, Shalem, you deserve it. And probably be really glad you got through this without injury!]