awoosh | Test Drive Meme 2.

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Test Drive Meme 2.

These are the mem’ries that last.
These are the mem’ries that will never pass.
And time waits for no one.
It’s gone in a flash.
And only the mem’ries will last.

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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Listen, I've seen what Gluttony would eat. You definitely could have found something besides the shoe. It's your own fault.

You've never been down there! It's endless, and I was so hungry...

[He's never sounded more pathetic and nasally in his life as this moment.]

It's endless, and he's definitely eaten a bunch of animals over the past year or so. You would've been fine.

[But you settled for a shoe, and he seriously cannot believe this was traumatic enough to make it into the book, but there it is: one boot, freshly boiled.

Yare yare, I would be justified in writing, and yet will refrain.]

What else is in here? That one time you didn't get dessert?

[You just don't understand, Greedo!!!! Whatever, they're moving on and not talking about the shoe incident ever again.]

Hey now, why don't we make fun of your memories instead?

[He's serious... shut up, Greed.]

Ahh, settle down.

[There was literally every justification to mock the shoe, he is unrepentant.]

Tell me instead what color you got, huh?

[Look, the thing right before the shoe is most definitely Lan Fan's arm, he'll never be in the mood to turn this page. Instead he closes the book to reveal the cover, which is very yellow, in fact. Sad, Greed never got to experience his awful yellow jacket.]

It's not bad, I guess...

[That's the real tragedy that starts Greed's book.]

Better then blue. Think it means anything?

[Several pages of just strange fashion from both of them, indeed.]

I couldn't really say... We'd have to look at all of them to find a pattern, first.

[And hey, that sounds like boring bullshit and he'd like someone else to do it for him.]

[Yeah, that sounds boring as shit. Where's a minion when you need one?

He flips his own notebook closed. It's red, of course, matching those weird lines currently covered by his vest.]

Yeah, whatever.

[It's a mystery to keep in the back of their minds. In the meantime, he tugs lightly at Ling, leading him forward. Off to find food? Drink? Find clothes? Probably food, honestly.]

[It's going to be food. Food and a Guy Fieri cosplay shirt, but mostly food, and this is why: it's been a whole few hours so Ling might just die soon if he isn't fed.

To wit, he's tucking the yellow book under his arm (he doesn't really want to keep it, but he doesn't want anyone else to come along and browse it, either) when he opens his mouth to speak, and instead, his stomach gurgles loudly. For several seconds.

It's a lot. But they're moving off in some direction, now...]

Don't faint. I'm not gonna carry you.

[Remember that time Greed freaked out so badly that Ling took control, only for him to collapse in hunger? Greed remembers. But hey, there's a whole house full of food at their place (and in another prompt, which we're just gonna segue into like smooth criminals).

Sure, it turned grey last night, but food is food is food, and Ling will eat anything, up to and including a shoe, so. It's fine.]

[Does Ling actually need to eat that much food or does he forget to eat while wandering the countryside for hours while Greed cries in his ear?? Mysteries of life.

Smash cut to their cool new house that is whichever house was bigger, probably, the red one or the yellow one—and food, most importantly. It looks... not great.]

I have an idea. [A beat, while he pauses to let that sink in. Ready?] We need new food.

[okay but like REALLY]

So go get some.

[He sprawls back on the couch, which is shitty and beat-up and honestly, he insists on the finer things in life but it's amazing what he'll settle for.]

Or trick somebody into getting it for us.

[Ugh, making him do the work... He sighs, short and irritated, but he's clearly going to starve if he doesn't get some real food that isn't grayed out and looks like clay, so - fine! He shrugs as if to say he'll be right back, and like that, he turns and leaves again, right after getting back.

Greed sucks is the moral of this story.

And spoiler: he is not right back at all. In fact he'll be gone far too long for a reasonable food run...]

[He honestly doesn't notice for a while. He's got things to do, small children to recruit into gangs (seriously, Mafuyu doesn't deserve this) . . . but hours pass, and Ling doesn't return, and Greed groans as he gets up and heads out, beause this is such a pain in the ass . . .!]

[That's cool, just let him get lost and also starve, that's fine...

Or: he's done both of these things, and Greed will have to peel him off the ground behind a completely different house, possibly all the way at the other end of the district if not outside it. Why is he here?! Who can say.]

[Ohhhhh my god, Ling. It takes him a fair few minutes to find him, and then he's just lying there, this is just pathetic . . .

Gently, he nudges him with one pointy shoe.]

Hey.

[His savior!! Kicking him, stop that-- he reaches out and flops a hand against Greed's leg rather than get up or roll over.]

Too hungry... Couldn't find food...

[He looks down at him for a long few seconds. He really is not impressed, and this clinging doesn't help. But he really won't move until he's fed or bodily forced somewhere, so . . .

He leans down, grabbing him by the back of his shitty Guy Fieri cosplay and throwing him over one shoulder.]

This is pretty pathetic.

[Greeeeed... Greed, his best friend, his savior, thank god. Ling just hangs there limply for a moment before he sort of wiggles to look at the back of Greed's head.]

I'm still hungry.

Yeah, I remember.

[Intimately, frankly. He doesn't miss that aspect of sharing Ling's body. But hey, here they go, his arm caught over the back of Ling's knees so he doesn't slide off, heading . . . somewhere. Not home, certainly, because he's going in the opposite direction.]

[Well, at least he doesn't have to walk to wherever it is they're going. It's honestly not long before he gets bored of just hanging there and wiggles again, leaning his elbows on Greed's other shoulder, like some kind of fidgeting, grown-man-sized scarf. Hello.

you know like in shrek but without the screaming and with more bending in ways that look more uncomfortable than they are

like in shrek]

Where are we going?

[Just like Shrek.]

There's a ton of houses around here that used to have people. The ones who died or disappear or whatever, right? So they probably left behind a few meals.

[Okay, morbid. This is a weird Shrek AU.]

How fresh do you think that food is?

[He knows you're not the Food Sin, but come on, you must understand food expires.]

[NOT ALL OF IT . . . what about spam in a can . . .]

Dunno. A bunch of colors went out today, probably there's a few fresh pantries still left.

[HUP he hoists Ling up a little, not because he's heavy but because he's contributing literally nothing to this effort, and so he's sliding a little.]

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