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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hanbei takenaka | samurai warriors
[ So, technically most of these candies are kinds Hanbei's never even seen, but there are a couple of familiar things in there, and between wondering why on earth there's an entire bed made of mochi and sniffing at the other furnishings, he can put two and two together.
He's also not familiar with any fairy tales about witches living in candy houses, but any suspicious mind can find a few things wrong with this scenario nonetheless. ]
Well, at least it's more interesting than the traps I usually see.
iv;
[ A book is a welcome diversion, but it's a nice day, so rather than open it on the spot, Hanbei tucks it under his arm, wanders outside, and finds a good tree with a nice comfy spot in the shade. Then he takes a few minutes to settle down, decide how he feels like sitting, change position a few times, and finally settle on sprawling out on his stomach with his chin propped in his hands and the book in front of him.
Then he takes a few more moments to actually bother opening the book, because clearly he is in no kind of hurry today.
Massive armies of soldiers have never slaughtered each other in such cute, colorful detail, although he stops on a page with some pink banners and frowns. ]
That must be creative license, right? I can't think of a clan that actually has banners like that.
iv
[ Mafuyu comes to a stop in front of him and drops to a crouch, staring at the upside down pages of the storybook. There is blood everywhere and soldiers and fighting and already it looks so much more interesting than the book she's got, left alone back in her house because she didn't want to carry it around. ]
What's wrong with the banners? They're kinda cute.
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[ He flips back to a different page, pointing at the banner above the army on that page - red, with four diamonds messily scribbled on it. ]
See, most of them are easy to recognize. [ ...if you happen to be a samurai alive in the late sixteenth century, at least. ] Between the crest and the color, that's obviously the Takeda. [ The fact that there are a bunch of horses getting mowed down by gunfire probably helps with that identification, admittedly. He flips to a different page, with orange banners showing a few dots topped by a line. ] And here's the Mōri.
But nobody uses pink!
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Well, they should. If no one else uses pink, then that'll make them super easy to recognize! More than that, they should just write their names on the banners, then no one'll get confused which is which.
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[ You never know when you might change your name in keeping with some major life event! #samuraiproblems ]
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[ Kind of like how having your name on things claims them as yours; this makes sense to her. ]
iv
Hm? ( He can make out some of the pictures. Samurai and other warriors in some sort of a battle? And those banners? ) Maybe they used to be white?
( And they've just been stained with blood or something? He says it all pretty casually, )
Or maybe someone's just real bad at laundry.
( A possible answer if you know the warriors Mutsu is used to dealing with. )
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[ He considers.
A little theatrically, with the way he's rubbing his chin. ]
So, that leaves us with white...maybe the Uesugi?
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Ya think so? D'ya see Kenshin-san in there?
( What does the guy even look like? Mutsu isn't sure. Most of his missions are in the Edo era these days. )
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[ No, really, this art is pretty awful. ]
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( Laughs loudly, )
But what about the banners, huh? Ya know all of their colors off the top of your head or just your favorites?
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( So this guy expects to meet people like the Uesugi on the battlefield? That narrows it down to a handful of centuries, he supposes. It's still a pretty broad clue, though. )
... So, where're ya from?
( He'll go fishing for clues, sure, why not. Also I guess Hanbei might recognize Mutsu's accent as someone from the south because Tosa-ben is pretty distinct. )
i
rather instead, here's tokugawa ieyasu, walking around with the tokugawa crest emblazoned on his left arm, reaching out as if to carefully touch some of the items that are made of things that he does not at all recognize! he views them with less scrutiny and considerable amounts more delight]
Do you suppose it's a trap? Its effectiveness certainly is in question, isn't it?
[two men talking about a trap inside a trap making no move to escape said trap]
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So, you know. Sure, why not! ]
Well, it's not very practical as a house, is it?
[ He pokes the mochi bed. ]
One good rainstorm and it's all a mess!
i
[Asks Akira, fully aware it's probably a trap. He's dressed like a normal teenager right now, jeans and an old, gray shirt he's found around town, so he really looks like someone that probably shouldn't be poking around a suspicious candy house.
But, well, here he is. He tries to poke around new things in the forest when they appear.]
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Just chillin, nbd. ]
Mostly the lack of any practical reason to build a house out of food. It's not very permanent, there are plenty of more reasonable materials around...so, the first thing that comes to mind, to me, is that the purpose is to elicit a reaction.
[ Or possibly just someone being very bored, but he's banking on the reaction thing. ]
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Anyway, he has a solid point. Akira nods thoughtfully, but then moves slowly toward the door.]
Wanna go in anyway?
[Might as well see what the trap is.]