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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However, he is an adventurous twenty-year-old among other adventurous twenty-somethings, and he knows what a future cool story looks like on someone else's face.]
Like that?
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Now, stand back!
[Once Prompto has taken a few steps back, Gandalf takes one step forward and swings his staff down, tapping the top of the book. Immediately, there's a small burst of flame, and then the book is indeed on fire.]
There we are.
[It's a cheerful little fire, and though it starts out a normal fire color (if a little washed out), as the cover curls away and the pages begin to crinkle and turn to ash, the fire starts to change colors. Almost like the colors of the drawings are being taken up by the fire too! Is it the book's doing or is it Gandalf's? Hm, well that's hard to say. Either way, Gandalf seems fairly pleased with the way it crackles and burns, though he's mostly watching Prompto now.]
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But mostly, overwhelmingly black.
Prompto sighs eventually, when it really seems the book isn't going to stubbornly survive the burning, and settles properly onto the full soles of his feet.]
All right. Um, thank you, Mister...?
[God, please be a Mr. Something, Prompto doesn't remember any noble addresses besides Highness and Majesty and he forgot what Ignis told him about the difference between them.]
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Gandalf is my name, and Gandalf means me. And you may thank me by giving me your name in return and by joining me for a cup of something warm.
[Coffee, tea, cocoa - even warm milk will do, if any exists that doesn't taste like ashes here. The point is, Gandalf rather thinks the boy could use something, and one should never underestimate the soothing power of a good comforting drink. That much quite literal blackness in someone's young life is concerning.]
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[He seems easy to cheer, now that the book's gone.]
But seriously, you already did me a favor. I should be the one offering you a drink! ...Thouuugh I don't exactly know where to get anything good around here, haha. I'm pretty new still.