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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I wish I could say that I did. [Literally throwing him into the air... But if he angles himself, he could land on its head afterwards, and jump... Hopefully, if he's not dead or stone.
He moves his hand off of Crowley's head, apparently satisfied.]
If you aim high enough to end up on its head, I can probably manage something like that. It's after the food is in its mouth that I'm worried about. If it throws me off, are you going to catch me?
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I mean... I don't really want to. [ He shrugs his shoulders. ] But I'm the one that got you there, so it's only my responsibility to lend a hand if things go off course. I'm used to cleaning up messes, anyway, especially the ones that aren't mine.
[ Except he's fully aware that this situation in particular is his fault.
So, without so much as a verbal warning, his hand land to rest on Guren briefly before he's taking a step forward. The human hardly weighs anything compared to what Crowley is capable of lifting, but taking his words as advise he knows exactly how to tune his strength before launching the individual in the air. ]
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[He would have liked a little more warning!! Especially after hearing Crowley essentially tell him he doesn't want to catch him, thanks— but he's being thrown, and it's a large reminder of the vampire's strength. At least Shinya isn't on the other end of it, this time.
It takes him just a few seconds to regain control of himself in the air, and as the cockatrice looks towards him him curiosity, he chucks the food, bag and all, into its mouth. It snaps at it without a thought.
But now, Guren has to worry about landing this without getting eaten himself. The throw was perfect, but the creature is in motion, and it's already finished its first meal and looking to Guren. He grabs onto the feathers at the top of its head, but as he's about to shift and kick off, the rest of his body freezes like dead weight. He's managed to keep a grip on one arm, but he's barely hanging on, and the cockatrice is angry now, trying to shake him off.]
Crowley!! [HELP??]
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Fortunately the vampire had a running start after he had thrown Guren, so by the time he notices that he'll need to step up he jumps. Not so subtly stepping on the cockatrice's head before pulling the human by his collar and off the creature entirely. ]
Ah, this suck... [ Because it's obviously pissed. ] We're gonna have to run after all. Why'd you have to go and mess it up?
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[Because he sure can't, at all. Even as he's grabbed, only his head and that one arm seem to be working, and he's trying to think of why. The cockatrice is definitely angry, making some weird, ungodly bird noise and running after them.] I didn't make eye contact, which means that this thing can freeze you in place some other way. Go into the trees!
[Bossy, bossy...]