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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You slobbering all over yourself. All you're doing is spreading bacteria everywhere. I need to wash myself off now, so why don't you come with and get some water for yourself instead of...that.
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It's not like I've got something else to get this crap out of my mouth with. ( At least he obliges, removing his hand from his face area. ) But if you know what direction the water is in, I ain't gonna say no.
( There's that well, but this is the woods and directions are a fuck. )
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I don't normally think about the names of the people at spit food on me, but since you did it on accident... I'm C.
[yeah this is caution]
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In the meantime, let's say something dumb: )
What? That's a letter, not a name.
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[He trails off with a sardonic laugh, fingering the seams in one glove with the other hand.]
Names are just letters. If "I" can be a person, then "C" can, as well.
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( Whatever, though. He doesn't feel particularly argumentative about it. This person is just Weird but not in the weird way that pisses him off, just kind of....in the weird way that gives him the heebie-jeebies. )
Not like I care what your name is. Call yourself D, E, F and G for all I care. But I'm Kanata, and that's a normal name.
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I haven't heard it before, but I believe you. Do you like your name?
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This isn't his usual conversation fodder, so he feels a palpable awkwardness nest in his chest. ) How does it feel to be just a letter? Seems kinda...short.
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[because Vincent was fuckin short so now C is, get it]
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( He's fuckin' taken it seriously. )
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[ohhh. for a punk, he could say amusing things sometimes.]
Now I'm curious. How old do you think I am?
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( A question like this, where he can't give an absolute answer to feel confident about!!! Damn you! )
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The truth is I don't know, but certainly older than that. Thank goodness. I really don't feel like reliving middle school.
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( Kanata gives him a look up and down, observing him carefully....ahh. Hmm. )
Ahhh...so you are some middle school kid, trying to be cute. Like your name could be a letter...I'm your senior, so don't think you can pull that kind of crap with me!
( In a few steps, a noogie might be coming his way. )
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It isn't surprising you'd see things that way. I've just never been a fan of my birthday, and when you've been around for as long as I have... Well, I never really tried to keep track. It'd be a waste of time.
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Instead of a noogie, Kanata places his hand on one of C's shoulders rather forcefully. That same hand that was licked by that nasty ass ashy tongue. Bacteria, ash, germs everywhere. ) What, your folks not get you good gifts?
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Just my sick mother around growing up. Please don't touch me.