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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Several things, actually. Like those bracelets and the fact that the wolf is colored and normal looking, unlike the grey mutated animals he usually sees around here. But mostly, it's the sense of fear that he gets when he looks at the wolf. Izuku lets his fists drop back to his sides and carefully cranes his neck to look at the wolf hiding behind him.] Um...hi?
[He's not sure if he should be expecting a reply, but better safe than sorry, right?]
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He looks up, a soft little whimper because. Well. The woods are scary the woods aren't supposed to be scary.
But he also moves to sit, and his tail gives a little wag. Hi. Hello, human. He isn't talking or pulling out the "also can look human" card just yet just yet because THAT SURE FREAKS PEOPLE OUT.]
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Stay here. I'll go have a look. [Izuku tells him before scratching at his cheek a little helplessly. Right...he's still not sure if the wolf can understand him or not. But either way, if there's some kind of danger danger, he should check it out. Izuku starts walking in the direction the wolf had come from.]
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Don't go it'll totally eat you he's sure of it.
(It won't. It's mostly nothing. He's just really easily spooked.)
And there might be a little,] Don't!
[Before he remembers himself. Oops.]
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Oh...you can talk! That makes things a lot easier. [With a reassuring smile, Izuku squats down so that he's eye level with Toboe.] What did you see back there that scared you so much?
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Oh... uh...
[He's glancing off in the direction he came.] It was a bird -- a big one! -- but it was all messed up. Something was really really wrong with it.
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[But wait, everyone who's been here since day one knows all of that already. And he's pretty sure he'd remember a talking wolf around town. Izuku tilts his head, looking curious.] Did you just get here?
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Rather immediately, in place of where the wolf was, is a small brown-haired boy, also sitting on the forest ground, blinking at Izuku, continuing the nod.]
Mm! Wherever here is. I don't like it. It smells all wrong.
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You're a shapeshifter? That's so cool! [Sorry, were you saying something just now? Izuku's a bit distracted by Toboe's transformation.] Can you change into any animal you want, or is it just the wolf form?
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I mean... not really. I'm just a wolf. That's all. Wolves can do this. It helps us blend in with humans. Even if there aren't many of us left.
[But at least this guy isn't afraid. Toboe is smiling hopefully, and even as a human there is the distinct impression that he's probably wagging his tail (even if he currently doesn't appear to have one).]
You really think it's cool?
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So it's something all wolves in your world can do? That's still amazing. [As much as Izuku dislikes being stuck here with no way to contact the people from home, his enthusiasm for learning about everyone's worlds hasn't dimmed at all.]
Of course I think it's cool. You don't think it is?
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Well I mean yeah, of course I think it is. But it's just... most humans don't exactly like wolves. At all. That's why we have to hide.
[A pause and he frowns.] I'd probably get yelled at for even showing a human I don't know that this is something I can do. But you didn't freak out when I talked to you! And you seem pretty nice!
[So. Toboe thinks it's probably maybe okay? ...yeah he'd still get in trouble with the others though.]
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You and the other wolves have to hide back home? Just because you're wolves?
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[A shrug. He's too young to remember the worst of it. And he was raised by an old human lady whom he loved so he's fond of humans anyway.] But... I'm pretty sure it's because they were scared and didn't understand you know?
People do bad things sometimes because they're scared.
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Lashing out always makes things worse.
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Maybe...
[A little fidget, somewhere between uncertain and shy.]
I hope so anyway.
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Ah, I never got your name! I'm Izuku Midoriya. If you want, I can take you back to the town. The deeper into the forest you go, the more trouble you'll run into.