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:
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He's not fond of the idea of leaving the statue's side, and wants to hook his arms around it to pull it to safety, but...nnngh. Vincent's so much heavier when he's made of stone. Reluctantly, and mostly to limit the likelihood of the cockatrice meeting his gaze again, Charles ducks behind the roots as well.]
Sorry to disappoint, but this is what I really look like. I'm a lot cuter in that body, huh? [So small. A perfect, darling boy.] I was worried something like this might happen...
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Huh.]
No, that's pretty convenient. [ling,] So you can leave that body at any time...? How do you get back in?
[There is a monster bird looking for them, and yet.]
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It's... [Uh. Wait.] ...sort of an odd concept, now that I think about explaining from someone who isn't from that World. I'd love to just say, "We're soulmates!" but alas... I'm not limited to just that one. It's always been my favorite, though. I don't like leaving him behind like that, but I figured if transferred back, I might still be of some help.
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You must be great friends. As I was saying, if I knew any alkahestry, I might be able to help with the stone... [Healing arts kind of apply to petrification, right? Kinda? Not that it matters because he's a talentless hack when it comes to anything but swords.]
If we time it well, I have a plan.
[The plan is pick up the statue and book it, but.]
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We were.
[Anyway. No idea what alkahestry is, but he's willing to run with whatever for now, if it means getting himself, his quest partner, and Vincent's body to safety. Curiosity, please wait just a little longer.]
I'd say I have good time management skills, but at the same time it all bleeds together. [yeah yeah, doesn't have anything to do with being opportunistic, let him live with his bad jokes.] I'd like to try anyway.
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Alright— you grab his shoulders and I'll get his feet! As soon as this monster looks the other way...
[For real that's the whole plan, Are You Ready?]
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...Do you think it counts as feeding it if you were to throw the food behind it as a distraction?
[let go of the berries ling, do it for vincent]
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You do it, I can't watch.
[Let him go grab your soulmate by the stone ankles and heave, he's ready for it.]
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Also, like, it's the quest and definitely not his fault.
He takes care in not actually hitting the cockatrice with any of the berries that he throws, and takes a second or two between them to hopefully extend the distraction. Then he just chucks the last few because they need to skedaddle on out of here.]
Oof -- not usually this heavy! [amazing that stone would change that] If you need to put it down, warn me. I don't want to drop him.
[SKEDADDLE SKEDADDLE SKED...ADDLE... maybe he should start exercising or something, this is hard.]
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Sort of? He's still doing the bulk of the lifting here, huh. Skedaddling...]
Not much further! Don't give up yet!
[Who knows if the cockatrice is eating the berries or getting ready to charge after them - he's not going to look back lest they wind up with two statue'd morons on their hands.]
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I did just run here too, you know. [HE'S DYING, no he's fine. When they're a sufficient distance away, according to his noodle arms, Charles lets out a sigh and indicates that they should take a break. His break is going to be spent leaning against his other body, apparently.]
So... [huff] What is alka-history, and how likely are you to learn it within the day?
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Alkahestry... it's the healing arts in my country. Do you know what alchemy is?
[He'll get to the other question, to which the answer is ha ha not at all, in a minute.]
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A sort of transformative healing, I assume, then?
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Haha... yeah, it's something like that. I don't know how to use it, but if I could, what happened to him- [you???? hm] could be reversed in a snap. Probably.
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We could search for books on it, but I think the pretrification will wear off before we learned it properly. I mean, I assume it will...
[Casually drapes himself across the statue's shoulders... Not as nice as another warm body, but at least it's sturdy.]
You know, maybe it was the trauma [it's usually the trauma] but you accepted that I was still "C" pretty fast. Even with proof like that, it usually takes someone a while to warm up to the concept.
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Oh, I've already given up my body like that. [Which maybe he wouldn't say so frankly, iiif they weren't talking about it with the proof standing stone between them. Who has time for subtlety.] My "other half" didn't get to leave whenever he wanted like you do, though.
[Honestly! Not very fair! They could have hung out!]
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Ah, well... [intrigue!!] You're around despite him, though. That's something to be jealous of, for sure, not that I'd ever do something I think would be too out of character for my vessel, while I use them. Is your soulmate...?
[Around?]
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Ah- [Yes, thank god yes, there was weeping—] He is! He's taller than I am and wears these awful tiny glasses—maybe you'll meet him!
[And hopefully, Greed would not break his new buddy in half. Always a concern.]
As for me, I'm too stubborn to let go of my body before I get what I want.
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...There is that. He did get what he wanted, before all this.
[Hopefully.]
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That's good. [Hmm! He looks at the statue, up at its face, considering.] He looks like a nice person. But you didn't ask him first?
[Like okay, Ling wasn't asked either, but he did volunteer. Kinda rude, little man.]
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Ah... [mmmmm] He's dead, actually. The real him was gone long before I was able to use vessels.
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Then what's this? [Allow him to reach out and poke the statue. Tell him what this is, please don't say a corpse.]
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...A shell. Empty and dull when compared to the person it was based off of. Sometimes...there are things like him in there, but that's just from my mental cognition of who he was. If I'm not...occupying...then it doesn't last long for the same reason.
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Ah, that's what would have happened to me if I hadn't refused to get lost. [Probably? Likely. Everyone kind of assumed it would, so.] How do you get back in?
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Through the soul cube, of course.
[OF COURSE]
Everyone has one -- or at least something close enough. I used to have a mobility problem, so transferring my data into other vessels' cubes was the only way I could interact with the world.
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