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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... Sorry, Akira, he doesn't care enough to introduce himself without more explicit prompting.]
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[you asked for it, ouni. this is what you get for not offering a name.]
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Ouni.
[There. Happy now, Akira!!]
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Less syllables, much better.
[and probably a little easier to remember than "grumpy gills."]
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[Not that he wants Akira to call him "Grumpy Gills", mind you, but.]
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[look at all these math skills, ouni.]
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... Whatever.
[THIS GUY IS WEIRD, why did Ouni volunteer to catch a chicken monster with him.]
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or something?
possibly.
in any case, it really doesn't take that long to get to the chicken monster's lair. which isn't much of a lair, just a clearing near some trees where it's... making chicken-like squawks.]
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Quietly,]
Anything to note about it?
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[helpful, akira.]
It's not afraid to use those claws at all.
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[So he, uh, can't just kill it, he assumes.]
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[unless they want ghost eggs.]
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[yeah, that's it. he's doing this because other people were saying they needed eggs.]
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[again, things he probably could have done if he was better equipped, but you can't even pistolwhip someone properly with a model gun, even if it looks realistic.]
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Wordlessly, he steps forward into the clearing so that he can get a better view of this monster chicken. And with that—
Swirls of markings form across Ouni's skin, as a glowing symbol appears before him. Similar symbols emerge near the branches of the trees close to the chicken, before they promptly tear themselves off.
And then, seemingly on their own, begin trying to whack the chicken. Whoo, brute force.]
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and akira is... clapping? a little.
just a little.
impressive!]
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Once it seems as though the chicken might be unconscious (and hopefully not dead), he stops. Your call, Akira.]
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thumbs up. literally.]
Good job. The beast has been tamed.
[he doesn't have cool dark magic right now to do that, okay.]
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[He is not impressed!!]
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[so it's still impressive? it's fine.]
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I'm not going to deal with it when it wakes up.
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You don't have to. I think I can handle the rest of it from here, anyway.
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Make a net later if you need to.
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