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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Huh?! ( His voice is high. He feels A Fear.™ He takes one step back and leans away, ) Get a what?
( Is he in trouble? He feels like he's in trouble. He hasn't done anything wrong! Yet! Maybe? Please step back, Annabeth Chase. )
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but at least the generalized glare doesn't seem to be directed at him specifically. maybe. ]
With apparently stories from your life?
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Yeah? ( He's answering her question because he knows exactly what she means now but his Pavlovian response to feel fear whenever confronted by an aggressive woman is real and he just sounds... unsure? Yeah??? It's the truth but everything feels like a wrong answer, oops. ) Real bad pictures...? Lots of color?
( Just give him a second to reach into his kimono. Look, he's reaching into his kimono, not for his sword, okay!! No sudden movements! And provided she doesn't jump at his throat, he'll show her his book. It has his name written on it in characters so good luck figuring out how to read 陸奥守吉行. His book also looks noticeably thin. It's definitely lacking in pages compared to certain others. But that's the price he paid for having his traumatic moments limited to a couple of very bad nights and the few days surrounding those moments. )
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[ OBVIOUSLY she just continues with the interrogation, although she's not jumping to attack him or anything. she's apparently just Really Intense about information for the moment.
luckily...? ]
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Yeah, yeah, feeding Onidori. ( Aaaaand there's a beat before he feels like maybe he needs to explain? A P P A R E N T L Y you can't just nickname giant chickens "demon bird" because it's not clear enough. Which really makes him wonder how many bird monsters are running around this place that you actually need to be clear. ) The cockawhat's-it-or-whatever.
... Ya know, if ya just told me what ya wanna know exactly, we could probably cut the whole twenty questions part.
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[ she Does Not Approve ]