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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[As slowly as possible, he makes his way towards his designated side of the house. He isn't completely willing to rebel. In the name of teamwork! But he didn't think staying by her side would include so much distance between them.]
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[ Surely that is manageable. Mafuyu isn't that quick to get to work, though, wandering over towards the back of the house in between their two designated sides and looking around for a garden shed or something similar. ]
How should we carry everything back? If they're large enough pieces, I guess we can just balance them on our heads or something. Or do you think there's a wheelbarrow or hand truck somewhere?
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We're in the middle of the woods. All I see is creepy trees.
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That's an idea! We'll tear apart the trees and make a stretcher or something to carry everything int!
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[He gives her a wary look, which on Keigo naturally edges closer to terrified.]
Can you?
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[ And if it's with their bare hands, then that's what they've got to do. ]
But let's see if they've got an axe around or something first. I don't want to be picking out splinters for the next week if I don't have to.
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[Because that's the problem, splinters. Not trying to rip trees apart in the first place.
He does look around, even if it's not the most enthusiastic searching, but comes up empty-handed.]
Everything is candy. I don't see any tools.
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See if you can find candy canes or something. All we gotta do is get them to an edge and we'll be able to cut the trees.
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It's not in cane form, but he does find a thick cylindrical portion of candy trim inside he's able to pull away from the wall. Looking at the chunk he broke off in his hand, he's not sure how to get it to an edge. The only thing he can think of is sucking it to a point. Maybe they can poke the tree until a branch comes off.
He's talking around it when he comes back outside.]
I found this, but it's going to be a while.