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 /insert rodeo music here
However, that appearance doesn't deter one brave soul: A non-descript human girl sitting atop this Kentucky Unfried Horror, managing to latch on despite being thrown around, all through a rear choke hold! They said not kill it, after all, and while Hiyoko would love to have giant yakitori for dinner, she can respect the challenge! Plus, half-dead fried rice called for eggs.]
Uwwwwaaaargh!! DON'T UNDERESTIMATE MY HUNTER GATHERER BLOOOOOOOOD!!
[Better get out of the way, senpai.]
MON AMIE...!!
[And, well, the giant demonic chicken bursting through the underbrush ticks it slightly over to death. But the brightly colored hunter-gatherer girl ticks it right back. Quick, say some kind of line about how she brightens up the room! Say something-]
[-no, wait, right, get out of the way first]
[It is not his most graceful take-off and a few dove feathers may be mixed in with the rampaging chicken molt.]
Mon amie! [he only calls out to her once he's got a more stable flight-pattern because, well, y'gotta look cool] A picture of raw human determination at its finest, even in the face of such a savage!
WE MEET AGAAAAIIIINNNN
Oh! Yuuya-senpai! You're trying to hunt the Chickenzilla too? No worries, I got this! Nothing can be scarier than those rock dove gangsters I ran into one time---[She can't help but let out a sharp "whoa!" as the chicken tries to flail her off again.] Gotta admit though, it's pretty tough... No matter how much I try to strangle it to unconsciousness with my hunter-gatherer arms, it's still being lively as ever, haha... This would go much faster if they didn't ask to keep it alive, but oh well!
[It should be stressed that the sole human of St. Pigeonation's Academy was a hunter-gatherer, and not a trapper-gatherer, so it's not like she has the strategic capability to figure out how to get it to play nice and get it to town without, well, wanton destruction.
Actually, maybe she just might steer towards town with resulting wanton destruction. Hey, she'd got them their eggs, it's totally worth, right?]
REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD
[While technically getting the chicken to the goalpoint would fulfill the request, this wasn't an RPG! The consequences of her actions would have to be addressed! It's up to the strategic mind of the Dove Party's young star to make sure this doesn't end in (chicken) tender tragedy!]
At some point it should tire itself out but it might have the stamina to rival Okosan... in that case, we'll just have to apply some force!
[Checking out their surroundings, then...] Mon amie, can you make it take a hard left?
SIX YEEEEAAAARS
[Her horrible-mangled English battle shout rings through the forest as she obediently adjusts her choke hold on the chicken, causing the demonic bird to squawk out a very un-chicken-like noise as it skids a bit and make a sharp turn. The scene is much reminiscent of a certain street-racing franchise, one could almost hear catchy Eurobeat music and someone shouting "D-D-DRIFT!!!" in the background!]
Oh! Oh! I know! Maybe I could grab a tree branch and bludgeon it on the head? [Knowing Hiyoko, that probably kills the chicken, rather than simply KO it.]
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Your bludgeon might make its head a crater, mon amie! [And he means that in the most flattering way, of course.]
So, we'll use its own hard head against it! Now, a right! [And when that Monochrome Drift completes, the goal will be in sight- an absolutely ginormous tree. It's the kind of tree you'd expect to find an ancient witch living in, or at least some very territorial dire squirrels. It's massive and the feathered terror is going to run right at it.]
Brace yourself, mon amie! [which is a lot easier to say when he's flying and can pull away at any point.]