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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Of course it did. I said so. [Charles wanders closer as well and knocks a gloved hand against the wall.] This material is called candy now -- so the houses are made of candy. A god gets to decide things like this and use that to hide how useless they truly are.
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[ It's not candy? Candy is sweet and by that definition, it's not. ]
That's just changing its name, but it's not the same thing! And anybody can call something something else, not just god!
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They could, but they don't have the authority of "and it was so". Gods... People spend their lives relying on them for guidance in how to live. If someone undeniably the god of this world renamed the building material as candy... Who could really say different? They're god.
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[ Anything she doesn't understand or disagrees with = stupid. Whoever the god of this world is, is also stupid, because why would they do away with things like colors and proper food. Especially food, because without that, there's really not much else that makes life worth it. ]
If there really is a god of this world, then I'm going to punch them in the face and tell 'em to fix things.
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It's a pretty common desire, punching god in the face. Or shooting them to see what happens. Just declaring god dead is popular. But it isn't the god of this world that decided the building was candy. Even if they've set up silly quests for us to complete and written biographies without our consent, even if they've brought us here in the first place...I do have to take credit for that one.
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What, you're saying you're a god? Or are you only one by name, like these candy houses?
[ """candy""" houses, created by a """god""" ]
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[He's spent way too long thinking about it, let him rest. Only nah, feel free to debate with him, he'll love it cuz he a freak like that.]
Would you like to punch me?
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[ She aims a kick at the house instead; the door falls off its hinges, not entirely out of the force of her kick, but simply because it, like everything around here, is just so shoddily built. ]
If you can prove to me you're a real god, then I'll punch you.
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Mm. That's a different threat than usual.
[Not that he's complaining, or anything. He'll just rest a hand against the poor house instead.]
We could try to find some real candy, now. If you'd like. Consider it a reward for humoring me.
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[ Instead of trekking all the way back to the forest to tear off pieces of another house that didn't deserve destruction, there must be shops around town they can get to easier, and they'll have their fill of candy much faster that way. ]
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[W-WAIT... GIRL...]
Is that really a reward, then? Besides, I'm not really one for sweets...
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[ even if you buy it instead of actually earning anything, stripping away all the satisfaction of the process ]
There's stuff that's not too sweet- we'll find something that you like!
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Ah, well... If you insist. You really are a strange one, aren't you? No wonder someone's got their eye on you.