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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Ugh, forests. He would like to go back to the town now.]
...Yeah. Is it gone again? It's definitely...happened before to me out here.
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U-um, how long have you been here? If you're more familiar with this area, it'd be helpful if you could tell me what's happening.
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Sorry, Deku, he's got nothing.]
I've been trying to figure it out as best I can, but... [...yeah. This place is weird.]
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U-um, if you're on your own, maybe we could stick together and see if we find anything? We don't know what's going on yet--it might be dangerous to go off on our own.
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That sounds good to me. At least it'll be safer...and maybe we can help more people, if we find them out here. [He's a little worried...!!]
I'm Minato, by the way. Let's do our best, okay?
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Let's do that, Minato-kun! [Izuku gives a little pump of his fist, feeling a little back on normal ground.] I'm Izuku Midoriya.
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[Yes.]
I think so too, though. I'm not sure if everyone will be able to defend themselves, so...
[They gotta try!!]
Which way did you come from? Maybe we can try the other direction.
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There was a city back that way. [He points over his shoulder.] But I couldn't find anyone there, so I thought I should take a look in here instead...
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[It was wet, and he didn't like it.]
But when I saw people wandering in here, I thought I should follow.
[And check on them, because you can't take the protag out of protags.]
Weird as this situation is, there are probably a lot of people who might need help, right? [They can't just ignore that.] I'd like answers too, but... I guess that's what I'm more worried about right now.
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[Izuku frowns, staring into the forest, as if hoping to spy something useful.]
I'm worried about that, too. I checked in the buildings around the well, and there was no one there. It's just...empty. I have a really bad feeling whoever lived in this place is in trouble.
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[Empty towns just can't mean anything good, can they...?]
I'd like to see if we could find any clues, but...
[WHERE DO THEY EVEN START...]
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[A pause as something occurs to him.] Actually, if we manage to find more people, maybe we could all work together. It'd be easier and faster to find anything with a group instead of us just the two of us, right?
[And there's a safety in numbers, he doesn't have to say.]
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[Definitely not arguing that. Strength in numbers is the best.]
I think... maybe we should start with looking for everyone in the woods, then. A lot of people have gone in and not a lot have come out. And if we find them, we can all group up.
What do you think?
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[Another quick look around at the trees.]
Let's look for them. The only problem is--how are we going to find our way around? There has to be something we can use as markers....
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[HMMM.]
If we could leave some sort of marker behind that we could see, that would work.
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[He slips his backpack of his shoulder, rummaging around until he finds what he wants. A second later, he holds up a notebook.]
What if we wrote something on pieces of paper and marked the trees that way? The pages are easy to rip out and into smaller pieces...
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That's a good idea, but... you don't mind tearing the pages out?
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How do you think we should pin the paper to the trees, though? Unless... you think we should just leave them on the ground?
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[That shouldn't be hard, right?]
Then we can see them, and they won't fly away.
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I'm writing notes on these just in case. [He holds the paper piece out in his palm so Minato can have a look.] That way, if we find find these again, we'll be able to reorient ourselves according to our original path.