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test drive meme 1.

Her Pa committed suicide
By biting off his head.
Her mother saw her uncle's ghost
And died of fright, she said.
So her unpleasant habits
Seem most curious to me,
Because she seems to come from such
A happy family.

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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Prompt 3;

[it seems like a good idea in theory—catch the chicken, get the eggs. profit for the delicious breakfast-y goodness. but there's one problem here. actually, there are a few problems here, and almost none of them seem to be quite on the level of "is that even a chicken?"

it's probably the fact that this guy does not look at all equipped for this situation at all. he's tall and lanky, with frizzy hair and massive, rimmed glasses—he looks like a huge nerd, and the way he's circling the maybe-chicken seems to indicate that he has no idea how to tame it. maybe it would help if he had something useful? but no, he's wielding a knife. that, while cool? is a replica, a model. it's not real, even a butter knife could do more damage than this thing. maybe that works because he's not trying to kill it, but that chicken(?) is trying to peck away at his toes, and all akira has going for him is that he's agile on his feet.

someone, help. someone tackle this chicken from behind. or just laugh at what a nerd he looks like, it's probably fine either way.]

Extra;

[today, akira is observing their surroundings, quietly as ever. is he curious? is he exasperated? it's kind of hard to tell, with his expression largely hidden behind frizzy hair and glasses. everything is so... grey. so colorless, so... weird. it hasn't been long since showing up here, but he already misses the duller colors of a tokyo winter compared to "ash grey water" and "old man grey hair grass."]

I don't think this is what they meant by "forty-nine tints of grey."

[it's never a bad time for a shitty joke, right?]

Extra 2;

[wilcard up your own scenario, if you'd like! or bully me into writing something for you, i can do that too.]

[sorry, did you say help or heckle because both of those are h-words and someone just might be getting them confused, maybe???]

[which is to say, there's a young (???) girl totally sitting on the edge of a giant paper doll (?????) that is floating in the air (??????) some several feet away from Akira and his worthy opponent, legs crossed and hands cupped around her mouth. also, she is yelling]

Good ladies and esteemed gentlemen, your attention please! Innnnnn this corner, we have the Ferociously Furious Feathered Fowl of Legend, Beak-A-Boo!

[no]

Annnnnd in this corner, we have. . . well, let's just call him Scruffy.

[n o]

Place your bets, everyone. ☆ I accept wagers in the form of gald and-or other precious and expensive items. Gambling isn't cheap, you knoooow.

Edited 2018-02-24 22:56 (UTC)

[see, there's only one really problem with this, and that's the fact that akira isn't the easiest person to heckle. magilou's going to meet her shitposting match on this one, possibly.

he doesn't seem very taken aback by any of it; if anything "beak-a-boo" wins some points in his book for being appropriately dumb and punny all at once. there are probably a lot of questions to ask about what she's floating on, but he's seen some pretty weird stuff. so instead? he'll be distracted from the chicken(?) for a moment, looking up at her with head tilted to one side.

and then, without any hesitation beyond the moment he needed to process everything else she said before offering a very dry:]

Place my bet on red, odds, 1-19.

[akira, this isn't roulette, probably. why do you even know how this works, you're like, sixteen.

this is probably also a good way to get distracted and beat up by a chicken-creature, though he seems to be dodging it's oddly aggressive motions just fine for now.]

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spinatalltale - 2018-02-25 05:29 (UTC) - Expand

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