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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[ It's just that easy, apparently, even though these were the sorts of things that stung deep enough to be dredged out of her heart and imprinted into a book. ]
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[Hm... Well, he's concerned, but he won't say anything else on it for now.] I guess you're happy with your reward, then. You might be the only one who liked it.
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For now, though, she's happy. ]
I bet lots of people do. Did you get one too? Let me see it!
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[That's so ominous... But he looks a little tired just hearing it requested like that.] Like I said, you're the only one who liked yours. Going around and asking for everyone else's is like asking them to reveal all their darkest secrets. Pasts are personal, especially when they're dark moments like these.
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I guess it's fine if you don't wanna share, but they can't all be deep, personal secrets, right? A book's got a lot of pages, I bet there's something in there that got better, and it's a good memory at the same time it's bad one.
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People dying, that he was responsible for. The world ending. His friends, dead in his arms. His own subordinates being slaughtered. None of them were good.]
Nope. There's nothing like that.
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[ Dead friends... She doesn't know, okay, and is just basing things off her own book, surrounded by friends and teachers and classmates because as a student, her life revolves around school. ]
I guess being surrounded by strangers is the saddest thing there can be, though. Was it like that for you? Lonely?
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[He decides to dodge the question. He has friends, he wasn't lonely, they're in the book— but they died, and they came back, and he doesn't want to mention the cost that took, or any of it.]
I'm used to it.
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Are you stupid? Being lonely isn't something you get used to.
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I didn't say I was lonely. I just said I was used to how the world was.
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[ Don't get used to that sort of thing either? Anyways, she's gesturing around her ]
But anyway, you can get un-used to it now! The world's not like that!
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[But, it is very nice. He's just refusing to admit that right now because he's being tsundere about it.]
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There's plenty of people here. Like, twenty. [ Double that, maybe. ] Did you come from a large city or something? You're used to a lot of people?
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[Twenty... he's baffled. He's not even answering if he's from a large city!!]
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[ assuming knowing their faces = being friends ]
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Right. [He quits] Well, I do have plenty of friends. That book is just full of shitty memories. That's all.
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What're you going to do with yours? Keep it or burn it?
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[He says it like he has to, like there's no other choice, but the truth is that there are some pages he's probably going to keep. Before the apocalypse, when all he had to worry about was the shitty Hiiragi family.
Maybe there were some positive-bad-memories in there after all.]
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[ Somebody took the time to dig into his skull and put all of this together, even if the whole purpose of it was to rile him up. There's time and effort put into it and that's something she can appreciate, good memories or sucky ones. ]
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[It's information. Something he can use, and file away.]
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[ She repeats again, because it really is. It's disappointing and underwhelming, and for all the trouble it took to get the reward in the end, it can't have been wholly satisfying. ]
Next time, I'll do it— the whole fighting and feeding or whatever— and tell you what the prize is so you don't have to.
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What? That wasn't a problem at all. I'm interested in seeing the rewards for all of these quests myself. I don't need you to do them alone.