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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[Hey what the heck, internal narration, Igor is like this delightful old grampa with a huge nose and eyes that never blink.]
I've never heard of either of them. [He looks at him again, raising an eyebrow.] Well yeah...I might be the leader, how is everyone else going to be able to switch their Personas otherwise?
[He might be average in school, but even Naoya is good enough to guess why he's asking.]
Your friends...are they stuck with just one Persona?
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but either way, naoya is pretty much right on the money with that one.]
I'm the only one who can change Personas in my group, yeah.
[though apparently, that isn't as special snowflake as it was implied, if there are a whole group of people who can do it. huh...]
sorry I'm gonna use something from the manga because I can
[Sorry Akira...but you might be more of a special snowflake than you might know. Naoya reaches to his chest and concentrates briefly before a card with a 4 on the top and Emperor on the bottom appears. The middle of the card itself is blank.]
Can you do this? If we bring out your card, it might help me understand.
[By understand, he means 'HOPEFULLY I'VE SEEN THIS CARD AND CAN REMEMBER WHAT ELLY TOLD ME']
this is fine by me o/
I can't do that.
[he doesn't even know what naoya is trying to do. he understands it's a tarot card, obviously—that's still pretty intrinsic to their existence as persona-users, after all.]
I don't use cards at all. But I... don't think I can summon anything here, anyway. [so he can't really even show naoya what he can do.
though it's definitely strange, since naoya was clearly able to sense the presence of his personas? huh. weird.]
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[He wonders if he should try what Igor did to him - put his hand into the boy's chest to pull it out. But that would be run and unfriendly.]
Well...everyone I know is connected to a tarot card. My friend Mark is Chariot...Eriko is Judgement...Nanjo is Hierophant...Maki is Priestess...Brown is Justice...Reiji is Devil...Ayase is Magician and Yukino is Empress. It means we can take on certain types of Personas and can't work with others...maybe something like that for you as well?
[He's trying to help.]
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he had a good grasp on his abilities and how they work; he still does. he just knows of the limitations that exist, though they appear to be different for naoya. it's those differences that are throwing him for a loop, mostly because it's so different. but it's fine.
please don't stick your hand in his chest, naoya.]
Mm. My friends are similar. They have one arcana, but only one Persona. I... can summon from every arcana, though.
[surprise!]
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[What.]
...so what arcana are you?
[Just tell him, he needs to know!]
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[he's everything and nothing, naoya.]
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[Congratulations, Akira are you an accident...]
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[that's rude, naoya!]
He called it the power of the "wild card." Something about "infinite possibilities."
[definitely not an accident!]
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The Wild Card. [He gives it some thought.] Well...that could make sense. After all, despite our tarot, all of us could use the Fool Personas without any issues...and they were pretty powerful.
Maybe that's why Philemon changed tactics...just have someone be a fool and give everyone else just one Persona. I bet it makes Igor's life a lot more easier!
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Philemon?
[and so, the confusion continues, because he has no idea who philemon is, either.]
Either way, Igor doesn't really do anything for me most of the time. It doesn't really get much easier than sitting around and sometimes giving me something useful.
[sigh. he doesn't really have a very charmed velvet room experience.]
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[He holds up his hand to his head and groans.]
Actually no. Never mind. I feel like that's going to be different too. And wow, Igor's gotten lazy. He was pretty old.
[At least he thinks. You know what let's just...turn it around.]
Well...I hope your adventure wasn't as bad as mine.
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I wouldn't say mine's over yet.
[he still has some business to take care of. a bunch, really.]
I don't know what you consider "bad," though. [his definitely had a lot of ups and downs, but even when the stakes were high... there were a lot of times when akira legitimately had fun.
he's kind of a reckless sort sometimes, though.]
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Well, I meant the monsters were bad. So many headaches and getting attacted first before we figured out what to do. But traveling with my classmates was fun, and I got to know them a lot better. I always thought Kei was really stuck up and...actually he still is, but I think it made us appriciate each other more.
[Not to mention...]
And we played in the casino a lot. It made buying weapons at the convenience store a lot easier!
[Addicted to gambling? Naaaah.]
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[still on his own journey. or rehabilitation, as it were—though he won't get into those differences right now, either.
instead, he lives to what naoya has to say thoughtfully. fighting enemies, making friends with classmates and bonding with them—gambling...
yeah, that all sounds pretty legit. his experience with casinos is a little different, but he can't say he's never played in one and doesn't get why someone could get addicted.]
...You buy your weapons at a convenience store?
[yeah, that's akira's takeaway from this, that's the only thing here that actually sticks out to him.]
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[UM....he realizes this is going to sound even worse.]
The police stations were taken over by demons...
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such is the life of a thief.]
That makes a little more sense than the convenience store.
[but, you know.]
Other world? [!! that catches his interest, though.]