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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[He walks calmly over, because anything more than that would give him a near heart attack on the spot, and that would ruin his image. He needs to eat before he has obvious health issues.]
Even in gray, it's a quaint little house, isn't it? [Because it's not a mansion, that's all.] Thank you for inviting me inside.
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[ and since they're in flavo, nothing is water-damaged the way it is in bluo. a cottage suits nanami just fine. ]
Go on! Sit down! I'll make you a bowl of Nanami's Special Beef Stew!
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[It doesn't matter if that made sense if he's cute, right?? Anyway, he's going to die, so it doesn't matter. He helps himself to a seat.]
It smells delicious. ♪ I love meat, so I can't wait.
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still, it smells delicious, and nanami retrieves a bowl for him with all the excitement of a schoolgirl. ]
Ta-dah! [ A DELIGHTED PRESENTATION. ] Dig in, and tell me what you think!
[ the first thing eichi will notice is that it's very salty—almost to the point of being dehydrating. at the same time, however, there's an undercurrent of sweetness to it as well, maybe fruity... and oddly, something unnaturally sour in the aftertaste. the mix of flavors is such that it's almost panic-inducing, and could probably cause a grown man to faint with a second bite.
if eichi survives long enough to get through the first one, anyway. ]
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Instead, he barely gets halfway through a sip before he's choking, dropping his spoon and grabbing onto the side of the table for support. He's going to die, this is it, this is the end, he can't recover.]
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[ no! she had tasted it herself and it was fine!! she thought it was good, actually, considering what she had to work with. she wouldn't have offered it, after all, if she weren't completely confident in the taste of her dish. ]
Eichi?!
[ he looks bad...! ]
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Hmm, well. Maybe he has a chance of recovery, but now he's unconscious and his body is reacting poorly.
Congrats, you killed Eichi Tenshouin!!]
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as soon as he passes out, nanami panics even worse than she already was, but she has sisterly instincts that will keep her from, at least, leaving eichi to die on the floor of her kitchen. she hauls his poor body to her bed... and luckily, this rune that she has inscribed on her hand can at least bring him back to consciousness. ]
Come on...
[ why does her cooking always do this ]