Prompt 1:
 he forest looms as ever, colorless but not at all dead. The leaves are full, fluttering in the silence, but there's no scent to them, no color. The effect is eerily hard to navigate, almost like an optical illusion, leaves, branches and trunk blending together with the small path -- which already disappears and reappears at a whim.
But even so...
If you brave the path, it seems as though there is something leading you onwards. A trail of... something, crumbs, maybe, the same shade of colorless as everything else, almost impossible to see. Following those might be a bad idea -- your chances of getting lost, tangled in random underbrush, or wandering aimlessly for hours are pretty high... to say nothing of what you might encounter if you stray too far (hint: even the small, fuzzy things have nasty bites).
Still, it's there, and if you follow them... eventually you will come to a small house. It's decrepit, falling apart and in shambles... do you really want to go inside? Perhaps armed with one of the many convenient tree branches that have probably smacked you thus far?
Prompt 2:
 hould you enter the house, you'll be greeted with a creepy, creepy doorman. Aw, how cute! And in that doll's hand, there's...a message.
On a slip of paper, it reads, simply and plainly:
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
Curious! (And yeah, you can destroy the doll. It's just a normal doll. You may even come across said doll already crushed by an intrepid explorer.)
Of course, it's a riddle, and the answer's a warning -- the longer you walk around and about the house, the less you'll remember about yourself, until you forget why you were there and why you should leave, and who you are at all, doomed to wander forever.
Or someone saves you, that's fine too.
Prompt 3:
 roblem: There are no fresh eggs in the Town.
Solution: Catch a feral chicken, and keep it for eggs. That seems simple enough, right? You're totally up for the task... right?
But why do all of the animals look so strange in the forest? Mutated, with teeth, or wings that don't belong, or claws. That's... a chicken, right?
Catching it will allow you to get some eggs, but that beak looks pretty nasty -- it might be harder than it looks. But you're intrepid and clever, right? Why not demonstrate your Chicken Wrangling Skills that won you the championship so many years ago? Or try to serenade the savage beast? Or wuss out and form a coalition with which you draw lots to see who has to do battle with the chicken? There's safety in numbers! But the prize will surely be worth a bit of blood loss and fowl-related trauma.
Do it for the eggs.
Prompt 4:
here's a new quest on the forum today, and it looks awfully easy! It's listed simply as:
Quest XXII.
Talk to someone you've never met about their childhood.
Quest will be completed when you have reached an acceptable level of knowledge.
On the other hand, that's a little vague, isn't it... ? How will you even know when you've completed a quest like that?
Still, it looks easy! Maybe go give it a try. You could respond to the forum post to try to find people, or just go on outside, go harass someone about their past. If you're lucky, you'll drag it out of them with very little hassle and it won't take you a good chunk of the day. If you're unlucky, that's what highly persistent stalking is for! But don't forget, you'll likely have to return the favor.
And your new friend might not be the only one listening.
Extra:
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He still puffs up with pride and flashes his best 'I'm so good!' grin as he writes his reply.]
You bet! It's not just any palace either, it was the palace of the great godking of my home country himself!
The room I shared with my siblings was as big as the best dorm room in Magnostadt!
People are only allowed to move through certain wings, so you get used to navigating your way around pretty fast. When I got lost as a kid I'd simply ask one of the servants or had my snake lead the way.
[A big dorm room in Magnostadt = a reasonably spacious dorm room for two people. Sphintus has four siblings, but thank god two were already old enough to have their own rooms at that time.]
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That sounds amazing! The place I grew up in was really small, so I can't even imagine what it must be like to live in something so huge.
But it's nice to know that everyone was so helpful. Even your snake! Was that your pet?
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Where I come from, Heliohapt, having a royal cobra as a pet is a sign of extremely high status - only the royal family and their closest associates and most trusted servants can have them.
They were the only things my family was allowed to keep when we got exiled from court.
[He'd be more than fine with her asking him fifty questions and more. Despite his attitude Sphintus usually doesn't get to talk much about himself, not for a lack of trying. He also doesn't think about prettying anything up as long as nobody tries to wave his family history over his head.]
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Being exiled seems like it would be... difficult. I'm very sorry for your family! And I hope that everyone is doing well now, especially your friend!
Having him with you made it all a little bit better, I hope.
Did he come here with you, too?
[Please let that be the right thing to say...]
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As long as it lets me live halfway comfortable in another country and I can have my family join me all I'll take whatever comes my way!
[Well, he'd rather be an influential doctor and magician than some trophy husband, but Sphintus will do what it takes to help his family. They've all worked together to help him get this chance. He's determined to make them proud - which includes making sure that whoever person he attaches his fate to will be a good, honorable one.]
Yeah, he is! Kulkulkan was right in his favorite sport around my neck when we arrived and he's hunting dinner right now. His, not mine. I don't eat mice.
What about you? Do you have any good sob stories to share?