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]

This is all so stupid.

[Rather than vote, she tries to smash another podium, too, but maybe her heart isn't really in it because she doesn't quite hit hard enough (7).]

I'm not playing along with this. I don't care what that stupid bear says.

But...

[She goes quiet, a moment. Hesitating while she figures out how she wants to say the words in her heart.]

...I know what it's like to lose a friend. I think if I knew I could've helped, and didn't... it would drive me crazy.

[She didn't get the chance to help. She didn't even realize anything was wrong. That was haunting enough.]

...Have a little more faith in your friends here, won't you? You're not the only person here who's super messed up.

[Shalem is, like, right there and all.]