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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[With a crystalline shattering noise and a burst of light, Prompto summons his gun to his hand and twirls it.]
I'm a member of the Crownsguard, they don't give you the uniform until you finish your training. Plus I've fought stuff like cockatrices and basilisks before, no problem. ...I mean, with my friends, but still. I'm more worried about you, aren't you still just a kid?
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Hey, man. I'm already 16. [ -- Which is, basically still a child, but he'll try to assert his maturity and independence anyway. The guns are pretty cool, and with how they just materialized in Prompto's hand, they might as well be a Stand. ]
That thing's pretty kewl [ Said unironically. ], with how you just summoned it like that. Would the Crownsguard be something like a 'Knights of the Round Table' deal?
[ A group of honorable knights? Like in fiction! ]
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I mean, I wouldn't call us knights, exactly. [It's kind of a scoff, but mostly flattered and embarrassed. Prompto rubs under his nose with his free hand.] Like, I guess when you look at the four of us in particular--me and my friends, that is--it's a lot like King's Knight? But that's just a game.
[He shakes his head.]
Real life's a lot less exciting, mostly. ...And then when it is exciting, it's a lot more dangerous.
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But yeah, definitely feel you on that. So, what, you guys went on an epic journey and killed monsters?
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[He taps the side of his camera again.]
Gladio, he's pretty much our big tank warrior class. And Iggy does magic and daggers, and Noct's got all kinds of swords and powers because he's the hero, and I...
[He trails off, thinks about it, tilts his head.]
I guess I'm kind of the rogue? No, the ranger, probably. Guns aren't exactly great equipment for stealth.
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Hold on, what's this about 'magic'? So Iggy's an actual wizard?
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I mean, in the sense where he's awesome and can do anything? Yeah, totally. But he's not, like, a wizard-wizard, he's been with Noct since they were babies so I guess he's just practiced a lot with drawing on his magic.
[He pauses, then adds:]
He'd have to grow a beard if he was a wizard, and that's weird.
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But hey, if he learned magic all on his own he's gotta be a really smart guy. Why haven't you tried doing that? [ If Josuke had the chance to learn magic, he would be trying that shit out? ]
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[Because Ignis is awesome and can do everything.]
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So everyone's just born with these powers in your home? Kinda jealous. Can you do any other spells though?
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[ They sound great and Josuke would love to be homies with them?? ]
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Sure! Ignis, he's pretty tall with glasses and Talks Really Proper, Like This.
[Prompto mimes spectacles with his fingers and mimics a British accent.]
And then Noct's about my height-- [He holds a hand up to demonstrate.] --black hair, black clothes, looks like he's going to fall asleep at any moment. Unless he's fishing, which is weird, because fishing is like the only thing that puts me to sleep.
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What, the guy's really crazy about fishing or something? If we're talking fishing with a rod, that'd put me to sleep too.
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[BORING. Boring. boring... boring........]
We're only twenty, why does my best friend have to have old man hobbies.
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Dude, I think my soul would leave me hearing a guy talk about fishing for an extensive length of time. Of all the things he could be excited about ...
[ Noct why are you an OLD MAN. ]
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Fun fact, if you fish at night in FFXV the guys will yawn pointedly at you, it's freaking great. GO TO SLEEP WITHOUT HIM, YOU NERDS.]no subject
At least you guys must've had a constant surplus of fish. Can't really complain there.