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

[moonshaded]

[In the face of accusations of playing nice to manipulate the outcome, Kainé, whose abrasiveness has been wrapped around herself from the very start, feels a little 🧍‍♀️.]

Seriously? If I was gonna start playing all lovey-dovey and sucking up to you just to trick you, don't you think I'd have started by now?

[The lack of a visible Persona or shadow form, even now...So there's something really wrong with that, right? Kainé is great at killing and fighting Shadows. From the start she has tried to cleave them from anything real. Maybe Kirumi still just being Kirumi is causing some problems in that regard, even though it shouldn't? Her attempt at a physical attack to trip her off her agi-boosted feet, just like the magic, bounces off without doing a damn thing (2). Losing your touch, Sunshine?]