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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stop milking carrots and focus on your writing lessons
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benevolent my carrot behind. men are difficult always, their very breathing makes things difficult, you have to see what i mean. i like the way you think when it comes to your rule, though
i hope a carrot milks you
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is that any way to talk to your kind, benevolent queen with amazing handwriting?
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i just might be. no, i'd rather they didnt breathe, or just used gills and emerged from the water to do things, whilst holding their breath
yes, exactly the way to talk to the loser of the fishing challenge
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you know they'd just get water everywhere. let them breathe, sometimes they can even be useful
since your underestimating me will help me win, I forgive you
i want to eat pizza when i win
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also a model most days
not if we put them in some absorbent stuff
thanks, not that i needed it
how are we going to get pizza out here? we dont exactly have a delivery service
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then they'll dry out way too much and die
giving people forgiveness when they don't need it is benevolence [no it isn't?!]
you could make it from scratch
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might be best.......for the survival of our race
no no its just uppity
hell no!! who has the time for that?
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unless your carrot people reproduce through budding?
uppity, benevolent
practically the same thing
someone who's going to lose to me at fishing might have the time
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they could reproduce through whatever means are necessary
i dont ask those type of tmi things
nooo no its not, see its Not
PFT not on your life
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it is
totally is
we'll see when I win
try not to cry too much
it'll make the pizza salty
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technically carrots would have great eyes since they ARE carrots but the cloning is what i have a hard time believing
nnnnnope
its already gonna be salty just for that
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yep~
aww come on?
we can't celebrate my win with a salty pizza
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in the ground? thats.....eh
we are
im gonna put sardines on it too
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i like sardines though?
i want pepperoni too
and bacon
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carrots do and potatoes do
you DO??? youre very strange
actually that sounds good...there are wild pigs out here right
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probably are
i'm not going to go hunt one though as the winner
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the stamen and pistol yes
who says you arent? you definitely are.