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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[ Aww, this guy's so small and timid-looking. Kinda reminds him of Koichi. ] I wouldn't know where else to get food to feed a chicken-monster, anyway. Not like I can just pop by a convenience store, or go to Kame Yu. [ A department store/market that he has back home. ]
Okay, I gotta ask, since you seem to know more about this place than I do -- Where did everyone go?
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I say we just bring a bunch of options and...wing it. [He pauses. Oops, unintentional pun?] The thing is, even if some stuff tastes normal again, everything else still tastes like ash.
[And wow, that's the real question here. Izuku frowns as he zips up his backpack and slings it over his shoulder.] That's...something we're still trying to figure out. Everyone here is like us, from a different world altogether, and the only one who seems to know anything about this place is staying anonymous on the forum.
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'Wing it', huh? That's a good one. [ Appreciating puns happens to be in his Joestar blood. Speaking of wings, they have those too, so Josuke starts dropping them into an old purse he's also decided to steal. Stealing!!!!! What fun!!! Anyway, he doesn't know how else to get food, so he's hoping the bird will just be too stupid to notice the rancid taste. ]
Okay, I'm kinda ... assuming the worst here and I really don't want to be. [ The worst being that, everyone is dead. ] Have you seen any strange happenings so far? Stranger than a whole world being devoid of colour, that is.
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It's...kind of hard not to assume the worst. [Izuku admits it with a sigh.] There was one time we found actual skeletons in the closets. I'm really, really hoping that's not where the townspeople ended up, but it's still a possibility. Unfortunately.
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Does anyone know how they died?
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[In all honesty, Izuku's pretty relieved that they didn't find bodies. He's not a stranger to blood, but seeing fresh bodies would have been too much to handle.]
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[ They're dead, Jim. Suddenly, the seemingly harmless colourless town is looking far more sinister. ] And with all of us now here ... Do you think whatever happened to them, will just happen again? [ Welp. It makes him a little sick to think about. ]
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They can try, if that's what they're aiming for. Everyone here is a lot stronger than they think. I won't go down without a fight, and I know the others feel the same way, too.
[Most of them have something they need to get back to, something important.]
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Huh. I only just got here but I feel 'ya. They can bring it! I'll kick whoever's ass they throw at me.
[ Shonen MCs being shonen MCs. A day in the life. Anyway, with how little they actually know about who or what they're facing, he also kind of feels like he's making an empty proclamation. Josuke definitely needs to learn more about what's going on. Before all that, though ... ]
Oh, I forgot to introduce myself before -- Name's Josuke. And you are?
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I think we're just about ready to head out and look for the cockatrice now. What do you think? [Between the both of them, they have a pretty good selection of food.]
i somehow had no idea he had a name other than 'deku'
We're practically giving the guy a buffet. There's no way it's going to refuse. Don't chickens eat pretty much anything, anyway?
[ Annnnd into the bag all that food goes. He might keep some of the meat for himself though, growing boys need meat (Josuke you are large enough, pls). As they move out of the house, he spots a makeshift sign, scribbled crudely in ink.
"Residence of Jeffrey Wright. Intruders will be shot on sight."
WELP, LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE DID LIVE HER AFTER ALL. Josuke starts to usher Izuku out faster, hoping he didn't see it. ] Go on, I think it's gonna get dark soon!
[ It's not stealing if they didn't see the sign, right? ]
haha that's fair, that's what a lot of people call him
Let's hurry, then. We don't have a ready source of light here yet so it'll be hard to see in the forest once the sun sets.
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Yeah. Not sure if I'm up for wandering around the forest when it's so dark. I'm really not a fan of spooky stuff.
[ Yes, this large, buff, 6'1" child gets spooked easily. Please protect him, Deku. ] I'm Josuke, by the way.