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:
Got something in mind? Want to play with the setting more? The sky's the limit, so feel free and make up your own prompts to play with!
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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.