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

[kandata]

...I...believe I can. I do not recall what happened, but I think that awful bear slammed me against the floor.

[She'd be doing much worse than that if she hadn't gotten heals during that fight!]

Although I believe he must have been far more violent with you all than he was with me.

[...physically speaking, at least]

[imperiosity]

[Aaron, being Aaron, just scoffs at the concern because she's not wrong per se, but honestly he got off pretty lucky during that final encounter compared to a lot of other people... which does include whatever mental and physical anguish she was put through, too.]

Eh. Different palace, but it's the same shit as always.

Putting all that aside, I know you got a lot of crap to sort out, but you can do that after we're outta here. We didn't come all this way to rescue you just so the ceiling could come down on us. So c'mon, let's get going.