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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YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND
I don't much like the idea of you coming to harm.
[ it's in her nature. think smarter, not harder! ]
Perhaps there is a way to leave the fish where it may find them, without giving away our position? Are you able to see how we could? You have much better eyes than I.
no subject
I'll check, (she's acknowledged with a bob of his head before he turns away to process the data picked up from a lengthier study of the beast and its immediate surroundings.
three points of interest that give them three routes: one, the safest route, denser underbrush acting as ample cover they can crawl through, bringing them within a hair's breadth of where the cockatrice in grey still-frame currently pecks at the ground; two, dicey but ultimately worth it, using the thick trunks of trees edging into the clearing to lunge out at an appropriate time with the basket; three, high risk with high reward, a deep stream crossing in front of the cockatrice that would disguise footfalls but require a preliminary distraction to draw its gaze.
silently, connor gestures out the choices for her, quietly explaining his findings until he's come to his own conclusion.) —It's risky, but I believe dampening your steps with the water and using the breeze to carry the fish odour back to the cockatrice would be our best bet. The presence of the fish should naturally draw its attention away from me.
(slowly peers over the bush for a moment, before ducking back down to rasp the rest.)
You can retreat quickly downstream if it senses anything amiss and I'll remain hidden until it gets preoccupied with its meal.
no subject
she cannot help herself, though.
while he looks, she presses the pad of one of her fingers to the spinning light on his temple. lifts her finger, and repeats the action. it isn't a laser, though it glows and loosely resembles the light of a hostile guardian. it doesn't burn, nor shock her, nor really do much besides feel like a ring. something she might see hylians wear in their ears. is it cosmetic? why does the light spin? does it hurt? is it, perhaps, a strange sort of "birthmark"? as connor begins to speak again, outlining his plan, she regards the points of interest independently. ]
I think it is a very good plan, Connor.
[ she likes that neither of them will be charging at it lmgsd ]
Once it has become preoccupied, meet me at the river's bank and we'll take our leave of this place.
[ however, she holds a finger up before his eyes. the same one she'd jabbed his LED with, notably. ]
Do promise me that you won't make any rash decisions, if anything should happen?
no subject
this is fine.)
That depends on what you consider a "rash decision", (playfully said while a hand raises to gently cover her hand and lower it, offering her a wink.) I'll mind myself, Mipha. I promise I won't do anything that will put either of us in danger.
(motions past the bush, indicating the long way around that'll give her some cover until she reaches her destination.)
Go get into position and I'll start us off with that distraction.