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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And its not like all adults know who they are either
Besides i disagree on the experience part
How else do people figure out who they are? By crossing things off on a list? By randomly picking roles out of a hat?
slept a lot as in barely left the house because you took no interest in anything
Or slept a lot as in raised by kind sloths, happily celebrating the heritage of your found family
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growing up isn't just going through things. it's learning how to take something from what's happened to you, and put it to use. that kind of skill only comes with time.
it's not relevant. that's the point. our other discussion has been far more illuminating. who i was then, what i did, what happened to me--it's all less important than where i am and what i think now. because that person is the one you have to deal with.
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or with a teacher?
[After all, she had a teacher. A good teacher that didn't end up being a creep or a felon.]
what so you're not just sleep-walking through life now?
they're equally important because that's the foundation of who you are now
you wouldn't be here without who you were then, what you did, what happened to you
having a few more tricks up your sleeve doesn't change who you fundamentally are
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i'm just not interested in the past. mine, yours. i'd rather focus on moving forward.
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you can't let yourself be caught in it, to live in it. but you can't move forward without acknowledging it
and i wonder
did something happen in yours that you're so uninterested in it?
or were you just a really boring kid?
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because you're like some kind of super cool guy now and you don't want anyone to know how boring you used to be?
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[ It's hard to goad a man who just doesn't care what anybody thinks of him. ]
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[Because she's already accused him of being super-boring, and half-sloth, and neither of those things got a rise out of him]
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[Shiho, he's not a pokemon]
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