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.
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Hi!!!
Ah, Kacchan... [Izuku manages to save his pen from rolling onto the ground in his surprise, and even gives Bakugou a nervous sort of smile.] It's a pretty unusual quest, but I think we should do it, even if it's...well, it wouldn't work for us. [He shrugs, pointedly not looking in Bakugou's direction when he says it.]
The forum's the only thing that we can access on those laptops, at least from what I've heard so far. And that quest was submitted to the only pinned post on that forum--so whoever's making them has to be a moderator of some kind. [He pauses.] I figure, if anyone knows anything about this place, it's going to be them. It might be worth it to complete their quests and see what they're willing to tell us after. [Somebody's been thinking about this a lot.]
HELLO
but yes, it's still important to gather info. even if... deku is doing so in a very deku way. ]
Just because some mysterious asshole is giving out mysterious-ass cryptic quests or whatever doesn't mean we gotta fulfill them. Is there really gonna be some reward or are we gonna kiss ass and hope for the best? [ or the real rewards are the friends they make along the way or something stupid like that. ]
:D
[Izuku shakes his head, then glances at Bakugou cautiously.] What do you think about all this, Kacchan? [Prickliness aside, Bakugou's very perceptive in his own way, and Izuku figures that sharing theories would be better than trying to puzzle it out himself.]
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he'd know he'd deserve it. ]
What I think is some idiot out there is really fucking bored and trying to kill some time.
[ well, he thinks this but more than that-- ] I don't know what to think, there's barely anything to go off here.
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What I'd like to know is how they transported all of us here to begin with. Even a warp quirk like Kurogiri's isn't powerful enough to send people across worlds.
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Anything useful?
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I've started writing down things I've noticed about this place in case there's a pattern, but there doesn't seem to be a connection yet. [Not enough time has passed, basically.]
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... Just let me know if I could do anything. [ and that might as well be as much of an offer of help as he could possibly get. something like a truce because fine, he's finally realizing he has to cooperate with deku somewhat, as much as he hates it.
but he supposes this is better than otherwise. ]
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Oh! [Something occurs to him right then, and Izuku tilts his head.] Maybe there is. Since neither of us have tried completing the quest yet, we could test how closely they're monitoring us for these.
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Oh yeah, sure.
Never seen you before in my life, you damn stranger. Tell me something I don't know.
[ ...... there's probably not too much, honestly. #childhood... friend... problems. friend being the huge-ass operative word. ]
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First of all, I grew up with this one guy who lives in the same neighborhood I do. He's a huge jerk sometimes [read: most of the time], but he's really talented and I think he's going to go really far when he turns pro.
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I said something I don't know. [ ... oh right, they're strangers. well he's about as subtle as a loaded cannon. ] And you're supposed to talk about yourself, damn. Can't even do this shit... [ he looks like he's struggling, probably not to blow something up, because he's great at this thanks. ]
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Fine, what do you want to know, then?
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...
this is kind of a tough question. ]
Fuck, I don't know. [ he doesn't actually particularly like looking back at the past. ] Is there shit I don't know about you when we were kids? I can't think of anything.
[ ...... this is. the stupidest question that practically answers itself. ]
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I've got one. Before your quirk manifested, what quirk did you want--um, if you could choose?
[Izuku figures that most kids would have daydreamed about the kind of power they'd end up with. The manifestation of your quirk was something kids in their world looked forward to, after all.]
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I always wanted something powerful. Something I could kill with. [ this is just barely an exaggeration but he can't even cool it with the death threats. ] Something fit for the best. [ he flexes his hand, fires off a minor explosion as his grin becomes a smirk. ]
This power is perfect for me. I wouldn't want anything else.