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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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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Sounds inconvenient. [Looking at the statue again....] He's not alive, but does your presence help at all? You know, like immortality?
[Clearly it does not make anybody immune to turning to stone, but.]
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Oh, the vessel is alive, even if there's no soul data. Just not the person it was based off of. But...yes. Using that body as my own does help the both of us.
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I see, I see... One more question! How do you get into a soul cube?
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w-well, it's a nice distraction, at any rate.]
As much as I tend to overthink things, that's not really something I've taken time to consider. It's possible because that's the way my subconscious willed it -- and so it continues to work, too. Even in this place that isn't the World, I can transfer to soul cubes as easily as if they have no other purpose.
-- Ah. But of course I would get consent first.
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Well, I'm afraid this body is spoken for, so don't try anything with my soul.
[Is it time to keep carrying this stony boy...] Shall we get a move on?
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[Which is literally everyone aside from the Vincent vessel, at the moment. He hasn't exactly been going around to everyone in Town and asking if he can just hop into that skin in a non-sexual manner for a day or so.
Huh, he has caught his breath, though, hasn't he? Okay. Time for a more supportive hold than just a soft embrace.]
Probably. [That cockatrice might not have a reason to come this way, but it was possible their hands still smelled like berries, it was bent on revenge (for something???), or just drifting through in this direction.] It's a lot to ask, but would you help me get him to my room?
[He's bracing himself to lift again either way, let's do this, bud.]