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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Gandalf's storybook looks like a regular old storybook, what with dragons and soldiers carrying swords, and Mafuyu almost expects to see a princess on the next page as she goes from standing on her tip-toes to try to peer at the pages from afar, to inching close enough that she's leaning over Gandalf's shoulder instead. The book is so thick and he's so old, there must be so much illustrated in this book, compared to Mafuyu's own which can't be more than several dozen pages long, thin and balanced on her head to keep the sun off her face, the only good use she's found for it. ]
Which one's you? Who were you fighting? Did you win?
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He glances over at the girl once or twice as he peruses the book but makes no effort to hide any pages. If anything, he shifts it just a bit so that she can get a better view in her new position. At her question, he taps a finger on a grey stick figure with a blue pointy hat over in the middle somewhere.]
I believe that one is meant to be me, and unless I'm sorely mistaken, this was what later came to be known as the Battle of Five Armies.
[He pauses to consider for a moment how best to summarize.]
Really, it started out as a stand off between three - an army of Dwarves, an army of Elves, and an army of Men - in a disagreement over what to do with the dragon's gold. Then a vast host of Goblins and Wargs and other foul things turned up to stake their own claim, and the other three joined together in defense.
I aided them against the goblin army, and at length we were joined by the Eagles - [ represented on the page by several brown v shapes in the sky ] - until at last the leader of the Goblins was felled. His underlings panicked and fled, and the day was indeed won. ... though not without cost.
[Hence why it was a bad day. Gandalf is pretty used to people he is fond of dying, but that hardly means he likes it.]
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It's okay! Cheer up! Me and my friends fight all the time, but if it's stuff that's important to you, that's what you gotta do! Gold and territory's like the same thing— you fight and the winner gets control of everything, but in the end, everything's shared anyways and you can still get along!
[ The cost is broken friendships... Mafuyu does not know death. ]
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And so, his incredulity fades into mirth. Gandalf chuckles, closes the book, and takes his pipe out of his mouth so that he's not breathing out the smoke into her face as he turns a bit to get a better look at her.]
Ah, if only there were more who thought like you, my dear. I am afraid the Goblins never have managed to master the art of sharing.
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I get that. It's real hard to share sometimes, especially when it's something really good and you want it all to yourself. But you don't need all of it, and if you share, lots of people are happy, and that's better.
[ She opens her eyes again to stare at the goblins on the page. ]
I hope you beat them up and told them something like that.
two weeks, one illness, and a lot of canon review later whoops
Alas, I am afraid they ran away when they were beaten, but we can always hope that they will have learned for next time.