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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What happened? [First step, since he's clearly not really Okay.]
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I... it's nothing. I'm fine.
[It is most definitely not nothing, as he holds his arm to cover some of the bruising.]
The, uh, local flora's pretty feisty, is all.
[The trees have so little to do with this.]
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Those marks aren't from the trees. [Calling him out just like that, he glances throughout the house, trying to see if there might be a danger in here.] The plants hit with thin things like branches and vines. Those bruises are too thick and deep.
I just want to know if whatever you got it from is a threat here, and now.
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Shouldn't be. I don't... I'm not really sure where "here" is, but I think it has to be pretty far from where I was. [...] Wouldn't have been any reason to follow me, either.
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I haven't seen your face around before. [He's realizing it now, as he stands up again, offering Prompto a hand to help him to his feet, if he wants.] Have you seen the town at all?
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[He looks up again, and then accepts the hand up. He's not the stubborn sort, just lost and ill at ease.]
Guess I haven't. I didn't even know there was a town to see. I, um, I'm new to these parts.
[Hopefully that's not too suspicious, if this does turn out to be somewhere in Niflheim.]
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[He's wary of that, but he's also aware that it could just be the world screwing with this poor guy, rather than some sort of a trap.] Chances are, this isn't anywhere you're used to.
But you can worry about finding that out later. For now, if you need to rest, this house may be the best place to do it. [Even if it's... made out of candy.]
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W-wait, you can't just drop that stuff on a guy and then tell him not to worry and go back to sleep! What do you mean I'm late? What about a well? Where am I?
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[GUREN... He's rude, but despite his lazy muttering, he doesn't just abandon Prompto like that. He sighs.]
Over fifty people showed up suddenly at the bottom of a well around two months ago. Everything was black and white, like the forest you traveled through to get here. We didn't know why, and we still don't, but all of us are from very different places.
Good enough for you?
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[Guren has now reached the drama and entertainment portion of his flight on Argentum Airlines, we hope he enjoys the show. Remember to keep your seatbelt fastened and the tray tables in the upright and locked position when not in use. Thank you for choosing us!]
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[CALM DOWN PROMPTO!!! He's trying his best. Sort of.]
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Did you all stand on each other's shoulders to get out? Like a human ladder?