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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Iori Izumi ♭♭IDOLiSH7
[ At first he thought he was seeing things, maybe having taken one too many branches to the back of his head, but no, the color Iori saw through the trees was very real and it's a huge relief. The color makes it easy to navigate towards but once he gets there rather than going inside, Iori stands and surveys the house. He may not know a lot of Western fairy tales but he still knows when something's too good to be true.
Still, it is very inviting... ]
iv
[ Iori's not really sure how this constitutes a reward for something as difficult as feeding a cockatrice, but he picks the little blue book up and opens it anyway. Anyone watching might be able to see, even with the lack of color, how he gets paler still flipping through the pages.
His brother's first day at school is confusing but easy enough to move past. Things get worse from there, though, and by the time he's looking at a picture of himself in a spotlight with his mouth closed, just a single ragged line, while six other figures stare at him, he's clearly uncomfortable. ]
How does anyone know this much about me? Who is telling them this?
i Did someone say Western fairy tales
It was still extremely suspicious. ]
Oi, [ Looks like you're not alone anymore, Iori. ] It's dangerous to be out here by yourself.
ooh yes!
It's also dangerous to drag other people along, so going alone made more sense. Aren't you also alone?
I'm not apping him here but I had to
[And here's Tamaki, leaning over like a nosy neighbor, trying to take a look at the book. He'd found his own book after feeding the cockatrice, though he was pretty uninterested in it. Ah, books. How... unexciting.
But Iori definitely seems upset about his. Huh.]
oh noooooooo
Yotsuba-san, who have you been talking to here?
[ Who else would be so careless as to openly talk about something like this, after all? ]
( I )
Wait, Iori? Gaku gives him a slightly startled look, but after a moment he shrugs off the surprise and speaks up. ]
Something like this seems up your alley.
[ You know, what with his family owning a bakery. Somehow he thinks the older Izumi could roll with this a little better, though. ]
no subject
He looks between Yaotome-san and the house, trying to understand the statement before the house's composition sinks in. ]
I think this would be something I'd refer to Nii-san... but thank you for your confidence, Yaotome-san.
[ What else is he supposed to say? Yaotome-san's always been hard to read. ]
Do you know if there's anyone inside?
no subject
[ The risk of collapse seems very real - and what if there's a witch?!
He's not saying that last part out loud. But he can say... ]
Something like this almost feels like a trap.