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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Alright, fine! You stay here and I'll force them to take my money even if I gotta shove it down their throats! Keep eating the food and give me a shout when they taste like something so I know when to stop paying!
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I'll do it. Start the plan!
[He picks up some nasty gray bread, ready to die.]
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There is no change. Every so often he catches her eye and shakes his head, looking more tragic each time. Briefly, he thinks a grape might really be a grape, but it's just wetter clay garbage. Aaaaa...]
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Nothing at all?! No taste? You don't have any money on you??
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I... didn't think I would need my wallet?
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Well— Okay! What else do you have on you? We can pawn something off!
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Anyway he has on him: a sword, which he isn't giving up because he's not a dang fool.]
My... jacket?
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Yes! I think we can get another 5 yen coin off that. Now we just have to find somebody who has money!
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Hey now, I don't know how much money that is, but I know it's too low!
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It's useful for some things! With 5 yen, we can pray to a god! [ Maybe that's what they need to do. Grovel before god. ]
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How much divine intervention does a free prayer get us?
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Alright, let's do it. You start!
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Hey god, let stuff taste good again! Please!!
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Be merciful!! Starving is such a wrongful death!
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What did we do to deserve this?! I'll atone! I promise!! At least grant us a final meal!
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[He lets that one sink in, please think about it, O Gods, and then cracks an eye open to look at the plate of food after a moment of merciful quiet.
No, it's still garbage.]
This isn't working.
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She's already on her knees, so she just... sinks the rest of the way to the ground, sprawled there with her cheek pressed to the dirt that she might as well be eating instead of the deception there on the plate. ]
It was nice knowing you. I'm glad to die next to a fr—
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THE CANDY HOUSE! IN THE FOREST!
[ They will not die here, she won't allow it. ]
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Do you remember how to get there—?
[He's already standing, energized by the promise of food, even if it's all questionable dessert.]
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[ LIKE A DOG. marching straight for the forest without a second glance back, fully confident even though she has no idea where she's going-- if she found it once, she's sure she'll be able to find it again, their lives literally depend on it. ]
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Is this your special skill? You can sense the presence of food?
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[ a useless special skill, but look how proud she is, be proud of her. ]
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Really? How interesting! What do you use that for?
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