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 like to think of myself as a glorified kitchen timer though
also why is that interesting
do you not like aj
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Is having some inherent accurate sense of time passing a time player thing?
Haven't had AJ before so I can't comment on my stance on it.
It's just that my bro left me a lifetime supply of orange soda in the apartment.
And by my bro I mean the version of you that existed in my world.
So... yeah. I always thought it was his favorite drink.
But I guess it was meant to be ironic then.
[ it's the only explanation that makes sense to him. ]
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a time player thing i mean
its fairly useful if you dont own a watch
also maybe it was but also maybe he just figured
that soda would last longest
isnt soda like indestructible
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Or at least it sounds better than being surrounded by splinters of yourself 24/7.
Given that I've fished a bottle of soda that was still perfectly drinkable from the ocean before, yeah. Pretty much.
Still, he could have chosen any kind of soda.
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If someone broke my AR while he was still in my glasses and stood on the pieces, then it's wholly plausible.
In a manner of speaking.
[ he probably shouldn't be taking what dave wrote seriously in any way, but welp. there he goes. ]
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ok bc every time you say splinters thats what i picture
like you hanging out on someones toe
jabbing it occasionally with the poiny edge of your shades
which is like every edge
just going haha sucker youll never find me without a flashlight and a needle
but im HERE
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You know what.
That's actually a really damn accurate description of what dealing with them feels like.
But no, it's uh...
As a time player you've run into various versions of yourself, right?
It's like that. Just more fractions of my soul manifesting in different alternate forms coming back to haunt me instead of timeline shenanigans.
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most of it, however, is just random rambling. this is the child who definitely spent an entire blog post reviewing tony hawk, the skater. just because. ]
yeah but if i did my job mostly right i was only running into versions of myself id be eventually
mostly
dreambubbles and davesprite aside
and that one dave terezi tricked me into making
okay yeah theres just too many strider duplicates in the universe fuck it
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Yeah, that right there? That's it.
Like walking barefoot through a wood chipping plant.
There's so many splinters you can never get rid of them all.
Just when you think you've got them all out, with your next step you're right back at the start.
It never ends.
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we ban alternates
if they show up they can go sit in a corner and think about what they did
ok no that sounds mean
but at the very least im going to hope real hard im the only dave in my vicinity for at least another month
its been sort of relaxing
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This is the first time in years that I haven't had a splinter of myself around.
It's almost like a goddamn vacation.
Who knows how long it will last, but I'll take a month if that's all we can get.
just noticed prince of kokoro and laughed
ie each other
which is way less daunting mostly
kind of
lmao i came across it and i had to
Just let me know?
I know things are weird between all the time shenanigans and other... stuff.
But if I can do something to make it less so, I'm down.