Eichi's Heart- Session 4

[syckophant]

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BEGINNING

[syckophant]

As you come to, you see that you stand on the doorstep to a large palace. You’re also dressed up! The outfit is a little different for everyone, but it’s obvious- this is a maid outfit(or a butler outfit, if you want!), and you are standing in front of your next job.

Looking around, you can see the palace is floating in the air; with the ground below lit up by flickering lights that bounce off of the crystals that have overtaken what resembles the Tokyo-F you are familiar with at night. They seem to sway and jump about more like fireflies than lightbulbs, and they are too far below to really examine closely, but your goal lies ahead of you anyway. The Palace is also encased in gemstone- blues and purples and whites that seem to have some kind of ambient lighting from inside, just bright enough against the darkened sky to show where the seams are so that you may enter the wide, towering double doors looming before you.


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The double doors open easily for you. Too easy, they’re far too large for your strength alone to move, but they move anyway, and you enter the entrance hall. It’s grandiose of course, all white marble interlaced with gold, with many various crystals jutting up from the ground, and one large crystal stalactite hanging from the ceiling, serving as a sort of chandelier. There is a staircase before you, right through the middle of the room, splitting into two ways at the landing. Most of the room is not navigable, due to the crystals jabbing into the air, but there is something that should draw your attention first:

On the landing stand two figures. They both are wearing jester costumes and masks but may be familiar to you; The one in the smiling mask has long hair, braided and tied in a ponytail, the color of moonlight, and the one in the frowning mask has his silvery-pink hair cut shorter, with it longer on his right.

“Welcome to our Illustrious Emperor’s Palace~☆” The smiling simulacrum says from behind his mask, though the sound isn’t muffled in the least.

“Don’t mess anything up, heathens”, The frowning one speaks up, also without muffling, though his tone is quite a bit more terse than Wataru’s was.

“Fufufu, what our friend here means is that we’re having a spot of trouble cleaning up, and that is why we’ve brought you here! We’ve managed to get this lovely foyer all cleaned up, but if His Majesty sees his theater or the common area…”

The pink-haired masked stranger finishes the thought. “Just do your job. You were hired for a reason. Go see the Emperor in his throne room once you are done.”
There are three accessible doors in this room, two beneath the staircase and one on either side of the split stairs after the landing. A fourth door exists but the crystals cover it completely, and there seems to be no weak point in that mass. “You may get supplies in the broom closet under the stairs, to your left”, the blue-haired one speaks up, motioning with a hand in the… general direction of the door beneath the stairs. “It might help!”

Re: BEGINNING

[widenessofthesea]

Isn't this a bit archaic at best?

[ a maid outfit? really? ]

Re: BEGINNING

[syckophant]

[The pink-haired one is the first to respond.]

Our Emperor is a rather old-fashioned sort.

Re: BEGINNING

[widenessofthesea]

Some things are really better left in the past.

I suppose it could be worse. Of all things, though. Who is this "Emperor," anyway?

Re: BEGINNING

[syckophant]

His Majesty The Emperor, of course.

[Which is not really helpful... but it's not untrue, as it is his profile name!]

You'll do well to keep out of his way until you are done with your work, but then I am sure he will meet you in the back.

Re: BEGINNING

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's your first complaint?

Re: BEGINNING

[widenessofthesea]

I suppose I could have started with a certain fetishistic quality to it, of both class division and feminine-coded labor, and also the fact that this skirt makes me look even shorter, but I figured I'd start with the fact that I hated that decade.

Re: BEGINNING

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Duly noted.

I really didn't need to know his kinks right off the bat.

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

Yet over the top at the same time.

Re: BEGINNING

[widenessofthesea]

Really, conspicuous consumption at its worst.

Why cleaning?

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

Consider the other options. It might be a little pedestrian but the Emperor does love to look his best.

Re: BEGINNING

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[YGO fandom was ready for this.

Looks down at his outfit.

Looks at the two fiancés.

Listens to maybe four words of their request.]

The circles of Hell get more crueler by the day.

Re: BEGINNING

[syckophant]

[Wataru's double laughs aloud at that, clapping his hands in delight.]

They may be cruel, but at least you are looking wonderful!

Re: BEGINNING

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Can it, Tweedledee.

[And then without missing a beat]

I suppose His Majesty the Emperor doesn't want to see our sorry faces until we've done his gruntwork?

Re: BEGINNING

[syckophant]

Hohoho~! That's not my name!

[Not that he is giving out his name!]

He's a very busy man, so it's best not to disturb him until you're done! Then you can go and collect payment from him, I am sure~★

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

There must be worse things.



..... Surely.

Re: BEGINNING

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Everyday death starts looking more and more appealing than humiliation.

Hope that's what they were going for.

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

Honestly the lack of flats is more insulting than the dress.

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

[Thank goodness for FFXIV mods. He does shrug and look at the two.]

Ah. Delightful.

Which was is the theater?

Re: BEGINNING

[syckophant]

[The Wataru simulacrum twirls around excitedly before waving his arms to the left.]

Over this way! Hohoh~

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

[He holds up a hand for them to pause as he goes to the broom closet first. He is supposed to clean after all!]

Re: BEGINNING

[syckophant]

[He absolutely will pause, as if in tableau. He stops moving completely, even seeming to stop breathing as you head to the supply closet.

The door underneath the stairs is just a supply closet, as you were told! Nothing too wild here, but there are plenty of supplies for cleaning. You can find:
-A broom
-A bucket
-Soap and window cleaner
-A hose(you can get water to fill the bucket here)
-A vacuum
-Feather dusters(very important for a good maid)
-Rags and sponges
-A leaf blower
-A roomba
-A step ladder
-Whatever other cleaning garbage you can think of that I didn’t list here specifically.

You can take whatever you want! Or nothing at all! I’m not your dad, live your best life. Also will you REALLY get paid???][

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

[There were two doors underneath the staircase, right? One to the cleaning supplies. He'll go to the other.]

Re: BEGINNING

[syckophant]

[The other door is completely covered in crystal! It is quite impassable. The two NPCs there pause and look at each other, then peering at Emet before the Tenn-clone speaks.]

....You get lost?

Re: BEGINNING

[firstworldproblem]

[He taps the crystal before looking back at Tenn.]

You wouldn't happen to know where I could find Honeysuckle, would you? Though I suppose it is disguised as something else.