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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well, it happens quickly. one of her hands moves? or maybe that was just a totally normal twitch of her fingers.
but anyway, as luck would have it, the shrieking feathery murdermachine will somehow miraculously miss her by an inch.
at which point vriska snags it with both hands, gets to her feet, and with a sneer of disgust,
she fucking punts the chicken clear across town. it's gone now. farewell, chicken. you were unfairly abused by assholes. ]
Holy shit, you really suck. [ she sounds like, a little impressed? ] Do you want help catching one of the cluckbeasts or something?
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oh hell, lucky dodge. stares at her suspiciously... this girl looks pretty wild, now that he's actually paying attention. ] No, I don't need help. It got in a lucky bite and I didn't want to blow it apart. You think I can't handle those stupid things? [ because he totally wasn't suffering when he got cocky at all. ]
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Vriska folds her arms tightly over her chest to look over at him with a flat look. ]
It's more like I know you can't, because you literally just got owned by one.
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I'm not catching chickens or cluck-whatevers for you, fucking obviously.
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First, I wasn't offering help. Again, fucking obviously. Second I don't even need help, get out of here with that shit, I told you it was a lucky bite. [ BUT WAS IT...?! ] And third, I can catch shitty food for my own shitty self.
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ANYWAY they're gonna have an asshole contest apparently because Vriska is just back to giving him a really flat look. ]
You keep talking but all I'm hearing is "I'm a huge loser that lost in a fight to a cluckbeast and I'm feeling really insecure about it!"
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AND IT'S PISSING HIM OFF. ] Oh, fuck off--! [ NGHH. fuck all chickens!!! time to stalk off to catch a whole damn flock and show that horned girl he totally isn't insecure at all so there!!! ]
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Literally floats. A couple inches off the ground.
Look, she wants to see him get destroyed by a whole bunch of them. She's a simple girl. She sees a boy get assaulted by birds, and she approves. ]
I will consider revising my opinion to only slightly useless if you can actually catch one!
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that's... annoying...!! he is slowly coming to the realization that practically everything about horned girl is getting on his nerves, oh no...! ]
Slightly useless? I already caught one, you know. Have you even tried?
Not that they're any damn problem at all or anything.