Prompt 1:
 he forest looms, uninviting and full of menace, an unwelcoming place for sure. Time to go explore! It isn't as though there's anywhere else to go, now that you've looked around the Town.
The trees whack at you with branches that have far too much mobility for normal trees, strange and mutated animals watch from the shadows and boughs, and there’s the constant, constant sense of being watched --
But eventually, nonetheless, you’ll come across a small house in the forest. It sticks out like a sore thumb, bright and colorful, which is probably the first warning that something is way off, and it’s...covered in candy. It’s a candy house! It looks delicious.
(It’s empty, too, not a single soul in it, without even furniture, but everything is otherwise edible and utterly delicious.)
But if you eat the candy? You’re going to have a terrible, overwhelming urge to do one of two things:
- Fight the first person you see
- Kiss the first person you see
Unfortunate.
Prompt 2:
he problem with a Town like this is that now that color is starting to return, bit by bit? You never really know when color’s going to come back -- or disappear. Maybe you’ve made a delightful, delicious sandwich from handmade bread and tomatoes and deer meat, all of which have color now… and then suddenly, when taking a bite, you get only the taste of ash and bread and tomato as the deer meat loses color.
Also, someone probably died for that color to fade away. Alarming!
Or maybe you’re walking along when suddenly your makeshift clothing is a hideous mix-match of colors; it had seemed fine when it was all grey and colorless!
Or perhaps, even worse, you’re walking out of a house when suddenly, the flowerbed in front of it has full color, bright and maybe a little blinding after so much monochrome. Damn those color mechanics.
Prompt 3:
he quest seems simple, on the Quest Post:
Quest 33:
Feed the Cockatrice.
Requirements: 2 of any color
Key word, of course, is seems. First, you have to find the cockatrice. Maybe grab someone to drag into the woods with you, since there needs to be at least two of you. Time to stomp through the woods in search of the elusive cockatrice.
Of course, once you find it, the quest...looks a bit harder. The monster hisses, ready to turn anyone who approaches to stone, as cockatrice tend to do. What do you even feed that thing? How will you get it to take it without getting stoned up? There are so many questions.
At least the stone will wear off...eventually… if you’re unlucky enough to get petrified.
Prompt 4:
 ut hey, you did it! You fed the cockatrice, it seemed satisfied, and now you can go fetch your reward from your home. It must be something amazing, with the work that you put in.
The only change in your home, though, is what looks like a...picture book. It's got a colorful cover (in your character's color shade), and has their name on the cover, so it definitely belongs to them.
And when they flip it open, it's clearly full of pictures scribbled in, as if drawn in scribbly crayon. Unlike the rest of the Town, this book is fully colorful, every shade of the rainbow in those crayon strokes... which depict, page by page, your character's worst moments in their life. Every single last horrific experience or tragic moment -- it's all there, in colorful, cute children's drawings.
Congratulations!
Extra:
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Meridiana Everett | Count Cain | Yellow
She's quite pretty, even though her shoulder-length hair is conspicuously tattered at the ends, looking more like it's been hacked off than properly trimmed; then, of course, there's the fact that her full-length gown with corset and heels render her completely out of place in the uneven terrain of a forest. Plus there's the fact that she just looks more like she belongs posed on a shelf somewhere than wandering around — doll-like, with big blue eyes and fair skin and something a little eerie about the way that she carries herself, a little too poised and a little too scared.
You might just see her being knocked down by the branches, if you happen to be in the woods; she's about as light as a bunch of grapes, and consequently it doesn't take much for the trees to bat her over. Still, she keeps getting back up and wandering, looking increasingly more miserable as she goes, until finally she reaches the candy house in the clearing.
And you know, this isn't her house and a witch will probably leap out if she decides to sample it, but, well. You know those days where you're like, this might as well happen?
Yeah. This is one of them.]
3 — Attila the Hen
Or, well. Time to set off on that particular adventure, at least. Meridiana's sort of hovering around by the edge of the forest at this point, looking utterly out of place and generally nervous, which probably isn't a surprise when you consider how tired she is of getting whacked around by all those tree branches.
Still, a quest is a quest, and she's doing her best to bear up bravely, so if you happen to be her vicinity, she might just flag you down —]
Er...pardon me, but — are we all meant to venture out and see about this...feeding business? It's only that I'm not sure if I'm, er, well suited to it, and...
[She looks like she'd fall over and faint after ten minutes of hiking, frankly, "not well-suited" is a bit of an understatement.]
4 — CW: Kaori Yuki
Of course, the instant after she opens it up and has a look, she slams the cover shut again, abruptly going deathly white and more than a little terrified, and starts clutching the book to her chest with both arms folded over it, like she's trying to hold it so tight that there's no chance of it ever opening again.]
EXTRA — So Quaint You're Gonna Die
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It's alright, let me handle it! I can do the work for both of us! Do you need anything? Water? Somewhere to rest? I can carry you!
[ Her, a tiny high school girl who's barely five feet. ]
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Still, at barely five feet, Mafuyu is even shorter than Meridiana's 5'4", which...promises to be a disaster here, um.]
I...beg your pardon, carry me? I'm — not sure if that would be altogether possible, much less proper...
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She puts a finger to her mouth, grinning. It's a secret. ]
I'm pretty strong, you know? But if you want, we can walk together instead! I'll lend you my shoulder and stuff.
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[She manages a tiny smile that she hopes comes off more reassuring than she feels. What girl would want people to know she's strong, after all; that's no way of getting anywhere in life. Prim and delicate is the way to go, the whole way down.
Still, she's not going to turn down the assistance, even if she seems a little apprehensive about actually reaching out to touch Mafuyu.]
Do you know which way we're meant to go?
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[ She's unreliable in that instance, but her confidence is in her strength and her dogged persistence, stepping in close and looking rather ecstatic about this whole thing, as if they were simply taking a stroll through the woods rather than out hunting for a monstrous bird. ]
But it's somewhere in the forest, right? So all we gotta do is go through the entire forest, and we'll run into it at some point!
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You mean to walk the entire forest? But it's so vast, it'll take hours and hours!
[In nature! They'll get tan, for the love of god!]
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[ Then it would only take hours. But yes, in nature and under the sun, through mud and gnarled branches and who knows what dangerous creatures that live in the forest.
But there is no other option that Mafuyu can think of/she fixates on the first option she comes up with and would want to exhaust that first before attempting the next. ]
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[She's looking increasingly more and more flustered with this, which is probably a signal that she's conscious of how useless she actually is in terms of accomplishing this objective, and embarrassed by it.]
Er...perhaps, before we go venturing off, we might try finding something to feed to it, first? It — it wouldn't do to find it, only to discover that we'd brought nothing to feed it, besides...
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[ It's the easiest solution, for her to be their legs instead of the two of them slowing down to a manageable pace, but Meridiana raises a good point. Mafuyu has no idea what they eat. ]
...Oh. I was just going to take whatever and force it to eat it, but if we find something good, we can just set it out and it'll eat on its own, huh? I bet there's stuff in the forest, since it lives in there.
1.
[The trees seem extra vicious today, and Minato's kind of tired of it--but seeing this young woman getting battered around by them is just too unfortunate to let pass. He has his sword, but trying to whack at waving branches seems ineffectual at best, so instead he's just removing his blazer to try to drape it over her a bit like a protective tarp.
Though ruefully, he'll admit:]
They'll still hit you, but maybe that'll get rid of some of the sting.
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A-Are they...always like this, then? I don't know that I've ever come across trees with such, er...vicious temperaments.
[Still, she's huddling down inside the blazer, like she's trying to make herself look as small and unassuming as she possibly can.]
Oughtn't you keep it for yourself, though, if...if they're likely to hit, either way?
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The forest seems to change its mind on whether or not it wants us in it on a daily basis.
[Still, as for the blazer...]
It's fine. If I need it back, I'll let you know, okay? Until then, keep it.
[He's got healing spells up his sleeves for later, if his arms get beaten up from fending off the branches. He'd rather she hold onto it, when she looks so dismayed and beaten down already.]
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[It really is like something out of a fairy tale. Wasn't there a story about that, after all? A girl who went through the woods, and trees that menaced her, until she tied a ribbon around them and then they showed her no harm...? Something like that.
Regardless, if Minato's going to let her keep the blazer, she's not going to try very hard to insist on giving it back. She's tired of getting smacked around.]
I'd gladly leave this forest, if that's what it wants of me, but I don't know the way to begin with...
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[It's hard to say just how alive it is with the limited knowledge they have, but...]
Enough that it can make us go particular directions, or get us separated or lost.
[Which, yeah, brings them to the issue of point B.]
That's probably why it's so hard to find our way back. It...doesn't really want us to leave yet. [Ominous.]
1
She spots the poor (but cute!) girl being battered by a tree and when it winds up to hit her again, the branch seems to stop--shaking as if it were fighting against an invisible forced holding it back.
That was, of course, Kaoru's doing and she'll try to use the same psychokinesis to drag Meridiana to her. She'd prefer 'into her arms' but as long as Kaoru can her out of the range of any violent flora she'll consider it a success.]
Psychic Rescuing Damsels in Distress!
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The bad news: she's definitely not expecting to get dragged across the clearing by the same mysterious force, but it's not like she can really prevent it by any means. So over she goes, shrieking all the way, and right into Kaoru's arms as intended.]
Oh — oh, what on earth?! Aaa!
[Whee!]
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...I'm sorry if I scared you. I didn't mean to.
[And she'll slowly let go when she feels like this new girl is steady on her feet.]
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[She's just kind of looking around desperately, trying to locate the source of the...mysterious...wind? It was probably some kind of wind, right? A bizarre gale-force wind that just picked her up and blew her across the forest and right into this random girl's arms —
...Oh. That's awkward.]
Oh, I'm so terribly sorry! It — it blew me right into you, I'm so very sorry!
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[And to show she's not making this up or crazy she pulls some fallen leaves over and makes them swirl around them.]
Sorry, I'll warn you first next time.
[...next time?]
4
Hello, Miss. What color is this woman's hair?
[His voice is soft but firm as he flips his own gold-covered book open and shows Meridiana a crude drawing of a redhead holding onto a black-haired boy's collar and dangling him out the window. He apparently needs to know this information right at this very moment, traumatized gal.]
4
Ieyasu is walking along, minding his own business, honestly just trying to still understand the concept of the Internet when he hears the sudden slam. He glances over out of curiosity and his expression immediately turns concerned as he approaches her slowly.]
Miss...?
[ :( ?? ]
Are you alright...?