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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[ What was he doing reading about cockatrices? Well, he wanted to read all about what Earth might hold. He had read about the whole fantasy bestiary. Imagine his surprise when three headed beasties hadn't roamed the land... ]
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...Oh, I'm Max, by the way!
[Shake her hand, you know you want to!]
It's nice to meet you. Uh. Comrade?
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[ He's continuing their walk and trying to spot a bush with berries. Soon enough - ]
Aha!
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[Her stomach grumbles as she starts pulling berries from the bush, placing them in a small leather pouch she has on her, which she offers to Warrick.]
Not that I'm going to eat mystery berries from mystery world. I've seen enough movies to know that like, always ends bad. Always.
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[ He then tilts his head at the fact she hasn't eaten. ]
You'll need to eat something soon...
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[Blinkblink.]
Sensitive to liquids? Like...an allergy?
[No sorry that's much weirder than not eating.]
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[ He probably shouldn't be telling this, but he's told it so easily before, so why the hell not now. ]
They burn me.
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[A slow inhale...]
It's like that one movie...
Wait, wait, then how do you like...hydrate. Or...wash yourself, I guess.
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[ Completely blank look. That particular figure is part of the cause of his weakness. She just happens to be real for him, not part of a movie. ]
I don't hydrate. My magic keeps me clean. I promise.
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[she almost drops the berries because OH.]
What kind of magic do you have? Is it warlock magic, or mage magic or...
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[UNSURE IF SHE SHOULD BELIEVE HIM OR NOT so she's just smiling wryly.]
Doesn't healing and making shields make you more of a Paladin?
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Probably, but that's not the title they gave me.
[ It used to be a part of a longer title, but he wants a clean start, so he won't go into that. ]