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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4.
"Dead inside" isn't a good look, and Minato just kind of...shrugs, sitting beside him. His hands are still in his pockets. He looks stupid.]
... That sounds fair. [Honestly.] It's kind of asking a lot of people, I think.
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Probably not for most people.
[ Because most people are normal and have some understanding of human happiness, and because Joshua is some tainted anomaly who doesn't get nice things because he doesn't deserve them. That's the way things work, right? ]
But I'll take my chances with this one. [ The consequences of failure...well, who knows what they are, if there are any, but he's pretty sure whatever they are, he's endured worse. ]
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[Minato was wondering about that too... hrm. He's pretty decent at talking to people about their pasts, but it'd be bad if there's an actual punishment if some people can't.]
That could be bad.
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It's probably best to comply, within reason.
[ Unless you're him, apparently. ]
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I guess so. It's hard to say what'll happen in a place like this.
[Well:]
Still, the rest of us can do it. If enough of us complete it, you won't have to talk about anything. [Probably.]
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Thanks.
[ For not asking. ]
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[A shrug! That's just how this works.]
Don't worry... it's really vague, but I don't think...it expects everyone to answer.
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[ Do a thing, see some color come back. Seems simple enough. But how exactly is somebody deciding what those things are? ]
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[How can they?]
But we might get more clues if we do it. Or...if we don't do it.
[Either way, they'll know something new, right?]
We might just have to wait and see.
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[ He's not fond of waiting and seeing. He can be patient when he needs to be, absolutely, but there's a difference between knowing what kind of opening you're waiting for, versus inaction because you don't know enough to consider a course of action to begin with.
Hm. ]
Do you know if there's anyone here who's good with network mechanics?
[ Maybe there's something to be found by trying to trace that back. Maybe there isn't. He honestly doesn't know enough to be sure one way or another. ]
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Not...yet, no.
[Um.]
We could try asking on the forum though--I'm sure if someone is, they've already got the computer figured out.
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[ And hey, his laptop is still sitting right there. Please hold - ]
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In the meantime? Minato is just going to lean back against the tree and stare up...and up and up at the colorless leaves against a colorless sky.
The...effect is really disorienting actually, and he ends up squinting and then closing his eyes, nose scrunching up. Ugh!!]
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It's weird, huh.
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[That was a bad idea, and he drops his gaze again to stare at the far more solid buildings not far from them.]
It's just really unnatural.
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Yeah. What can even do that to a place?
[ ...maybe an artifact? But this is like, some Sept-Terrion level bullshit. ]
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[?]
That...something happened here, and not that it was always this way. [Something about the abandoned town really does just...rub him the wrong way.]
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[ Admittedly, he isn't a super expert on science - Sunday school only went so far, and in Ouroboros he was more concerned with practical knowledge than the theory of why things worked as they did. But he's pretty sure, at least. ]
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That's right... so something else has to be weird about this place. I'm not sure that there's a scientific explanation for all of this, though.