linkingup | Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures

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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[That spell doesn't hurt as much, but he's glad Yoon is untouched-- unnoticed? Either way, he feels comfortable leaving the boy now.

Shalem straightens his jacket, tugs on his sleeves, aligns his cuffs, fixes his shirt. Makes himself presentable.]

I have to wonder why you simply don't embrace it, if you deem it such an indelible part of yourself. [While everyone is yelling, Shalem has the vocal training of a theatre actor, he knows how to make his voice loud enough to carry and still have himself be heard and understood. And the poise as well.]

I was like you-- do you remember what you asked me? [The question from the shard of the vase. He looks up to peek at what she's doing... and then takes up his staff again.

Now he's done with his preparations. He's ready. Take to the stage, performer.

With a loud laugh, he throws himself into the fight, swinging his staff with a Giant Slice (17). Here's someone who relishes the fight-- and the potential murder that may just happen afterward.] Go on! Look into the abyss! Perhaps you'll find what you like in there!

[ maybe it’s the injuries plus the curse plus monokuma’s annoying ass, but something about shalem’s speech makes soujuurou whip his head around to face him. ]

She’s not like us! Be quiet if you can’t say anything productive!