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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How old are you really? [ Competing for no reason is something kids like to do. ] Wait, five minutes? Are you outta your mind?!
[ Who can catch one fish in five minutes, let alone enough to compete with? This is starting to feel a lot like PRESSURE. Ugh, fine, Josuke doesn't want to lose either; nor does he want to get his shoes and socks wet, so he's going to make his Stand do the fishing for him. ] Crazy Diamond!
[ And phasing out of him is a big, pink, bara man. ]
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[Haha!! But whoa, check out that thing. He's seen personas by now, so he's not even going to question it. He's cheating, himself, as he draws his sword and takes some of Mahiru's power with it.]
Five minutes. Ready... set... go!
[And just like that, he's stabbing his sword into the water and spearing his first fish. What the fuck.]
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Get them, Crazy Diamond! We're having sashimi for dinner. [ Really lame line but he really does plan to have some of this fish for dinner. It's too bad he doesn't actually know how to make sashimi.
Anyway, Crazy D starts to punch at the water at a rapid pace, his movements so quick they're almost impossible to follow. With the Stand's skill in precision, most of the punches are making contact with the fishes under the surface, stunning them with a blow. His Stand then grabs hold of the fishes and throws them on land.
It's raining fish ... Hallelujah? If Guren accidentally gets hit by fish, it's not like Josuke's purposefully sabotaging him. ]
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Besides, this is plenty of fish, and he's watching Crazy Diamond with interest. Normal human eyes probably wouldn't be able to detect that movement at all. Guren can follow it to a point— it's like watching a vampire. He's trying to determine what level it's at when he decides it's enough, even before five minutes passes.]
Okay, you win. That should be good enough. [JUST LIKE THAT... BORING??] You call that thing Crazy Diamond?
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Hey -- [ He definitely knows what just happened. ] Didn't you say it was a competition?! Why did you only get one fish?
[ Could this guy be MAKING HIM DO ALL THE WORK???? ]
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[Deadpan... He's putting minimal effort into legitimately pretending he lost that instead of just didn't try. He's gathering up stray fish from the dock into the bag!]
Like I said, you're the winner. Ready to go?
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Hold up! You didn't even try, did you? You were just tricking me into doing all the work! [ He hates himself right now for falling for it. ]
Damn, I really should have set the terms so the winner gets a reward! [ It all happened so quickly, he hadn't even considered it. ]
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[Josuke's amusing, Guren likes him already. He passes him the bag full of fish.] What, the pride of victory isn't enough? [Not when Guren played him like this, probably. But oh well!]
Don't get so sour. We have the same goal. We're going to feed that cockatrice.
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Bag slung over his shoulder, the expression on his face is still that of petulance. ] Just watch. I'm gonna get you next time. [ Sure sounds like an empty threat, but okay. Let teenagers have their moment. ]
Let's go ... find it then. Do you have an idea where it may be?
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[He doesn't even respond to the threat, that's how seriously he takes it. Besides, they're on a mission!!] I don't know for sure, but nothing seems to leave that forest of its own will, and I think we'd know if there was a cockatrice roaming anywhere else.
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[ He's a little scared!! But okay, he'll follow Guren with a shopping bag of raw fish in his hands. Off to feed the cockatrice they go!
One thing they've forgotten until now, though: ] Oh. I'm Josuke, by the way. And you?
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[He can be polite, see!] I hate to break it to you, but the forest is so thick, it's going to be dark no matter what time we go in there. The leaves are thick and the path winds wherever the forest wants you to go. It's not consistent.
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Wait, what? What do 'ya mean the path actually changes? That's just not possible. [ It also sounds dangerous ...? ] Doesn't that mean we'll probably get lost?
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[Haha, he's serious with the probably part!! Yay!!]
Just stick close to me and you'll be fine.
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Anyway, fast forward to when they're finally at the forest. ] Eugh ... Just as I thought. This place gives me the creeps. It's like we're in a horror movie, and the serial killer's just hiding out in the bushes waiting to get us one by one.
The comic relief guy usually dies first. Good thing that ain't me. [ he's the cool one ... hey, shut up josuke. ]