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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but at the same time, it doesn't, because look at the size of that thing, its beak opening up wide as it snaps at the air. Mafuyu rushes forward and swipes the biscuit up from the ground, takes aim, and hurtles the biscuit as hard as she can.
It hits the cockatrice in the eye and falls to the ground, aggregated squawking filling the air.
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Quick, pick it up and let me try again!
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[And if Mafuyu misses again, well, they might be screwed but they'll figure it out! Probably.]
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Hold its feet or something and make it stop moving for a sec!
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How am I supposed to grab its feet? Just aim while it's hissing at me and we should be fine, I can distract it!
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[ And leave yourself defenseless-- but fine, fine, she'll try again, standing as close as she can while looking for an opening where she can toss the thing inside, but Percy keeps getting in the way and the cockatrice keeps snapping too close to his face and the biscuit strikes Percy square on the back of the head.
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Give me the sword and you throw!
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[Like. Would it turn back into a pen? He genuinely isn't that sure, but the cockatrice snaps and narrowly misses Percy's scalp.] But maybe you should be the distraction and I'll throw, you seem loud enough.
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Okay.
Okay. ]
I'll do it. Get out of the way.
[ Forget distraction— if it's going to bite, let it come. Mafuyu rushes towards the cockatrice and, as expected, it turns its head towards her and opens its beak. It's honestly terrifying up close, mouth so wide it could probably swallow her whole. But instead of pulling away, she puts herself inside that mouth, foot stomping down hard enough that there's a crack of the jaw dislocating, her other hand shooting up to pry open the top half of the beak, holding its mouth open. ]
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It's not like Percy's never gotten up close and personal with monsters before, but this is ridiculous.
Still, with the mouth open Percy snaps back into action immediately and scoops up the wayward dog biscuit, darting forward and tossing it straight into the cockatrice's mouth and down its throat.]
How are you even doing that?
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It makes a strangled noise, snapping at the air and shaking its head— it's possibly choking on that biscuit, thanks Percy— but Mafuyu isn't sticking around for this, grabbing Percy by the wrist as she turns. ]
Conversation later! Run!
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Head through there! [He points at a cluster of trees that seem to branch off to another path and he steers them that way as the monster behind them stomps along the ground.]
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—We can't go home, or it'll follow and level the buildings. Let's just beat it up!
[ Or run until it tires itself out and gives up the chase, but the most direct method's always the way to go. ]
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Dude, I don't know about you but I'm not interested in what'll happen if we actually fail the quest. It just said to feed the thing. [Running until it tires out seems dumb too though.] What if we trap it in a bunch of the trees?