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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Mister, [Sounds patient and gentle.] if you've been trying to quit smoking all your hard work will go to waste if you give in to temptation now.
[She isn't even being sarcastic. She 100% wants to help you quit smoking (?).]
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[dot dot dot]
No, no, it's for--I just want to burn something!
[PROMPTO, THAT SOUNDS WORSE.]
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Arson is illegal you know.
[She's getting the sense that that's probably not what he meant but she can't help it.]
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[Well, maybe if he dressed a little less punk...]
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I'm pretty sure book burning isn't much better, mister.
[She's pretty sure? Well, either way...]
I don't have any matches on me, but I'm sure there are some in one of the supply depots that have been set up. I can show you the way if you really want to be a book burner so badly.
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[He even crosses his heart. Come on!]
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Well, as long as you promise this won't be your first step onto a life of crime I guess it's fine.
[She gestures to a direction.] There's one that way.
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[He turns in the pointed direction, starts to take a step, and then cancels the motion. After a second, he looks back at her.]
Whaaat am I looking for exactly?
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You can't miss it. Momo made sure all the depots have clear signs.
[But she was coming along too! Just so he didn't get lost or something.]
I'm Kaoru, by the way.
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[You know, since she keeps insinuating he's some kind of punk criminal.]
I guess you've been here a while already?
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I've been here for almost two months now.
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[Which is like Latin but fake.]
Two whole months, huh... and nobody's found a way back?
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[The way she couldn't hold back her grin and sounded like she was seconds away from breaking out in laughter probably showed that she was joking.]
Nope. But we found some food that doesn't taste like ash.
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Oh, well, uh. Gotta count your blessings, right? ...Is decent food really that hard to find? I thought it was just me...
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If you ask around, people here are always willing to share what they have.
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[Even if sometimes, rewards are Bad.]
Do quests bring back the colors, too? Or how does that work?
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I'm...not sure. Some seem to do that. We got one this month where we had to tell stories to, um. [She pauses to think. What were the exact words again...?] "Restore the written word". They're all really cryptic like someone was trying really hard to make everything think they were cool and mysterious when they were really just a shut-in.
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[Gods Are Dicks: The Final Fantasy XV story.]