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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Where does he even start with that.
Minato blinks slowly, and again, processing.]
... Is that how it works...? [French....doves?] Sorry, is that-- you're a dove? [HE WAS WONDERING BUT... is it even polite to ask...]
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[And if Minato's question is rude, he doesn't take offense.]
Dove is the more general term. If you'd like to get specific, I'm a fantail pigeon. I can't get so specific as giving you my measurements, though, those are a national secret.
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That's...okay. I think I'll be okay without them. [thanks though.]
So you grew up in France... but you weren't born there? [How much info do they even need for this quest?]
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My mother was Japanese, so I'm technically a proper Japanese citizen. We just moved due to some circumstances. I prefer to think of myself as a citizen of the world, though, a real international bird.
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But they're both...Japanese citizens, he supposes. That's common ground. (Is it?)]
I...see. [He doesn't.
Also, isn't "circumstances" awfully vague...?]
I don't want to pry, but... do you really think this is enough to count for "learning someone's past"? I still don't really know anything about you.
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Well, the post only specified to an acceptable level of knowledge... and, really, they provided no way to tell once that level was met! It's quite tricky.
What would you say, then? What sort of things would you need to know to feel you know me? And, again, measurements are off-limits.
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Isn't there a point though? When you feel like you really do know someone.
I don't think... [Hm, words.] ... I don't think it's a matter of knowing every detail of their past from beginning to end, but knowing enough to know what makes them who they are as a person.
[...A shrug.]
That might not be what the quest wants, but that's what makes sense to me.
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I see. That would explain why lies or half-truths didn't seem to accomplish anything. [That's pretty brazenly admitting he might have lied earlier.]
Basic stats don't give the whole picture either. I'd hate to fail a mission so early in the run, though...
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Still...]
You don't actually want to talk about yourself that much, do you...? [Hm...!!] I don't want to pry, if that's the case. Even for a quest like this, you shouldn't have to talk about it if you don't want to.
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Hm, well, how should I put it... I'm more used to hiding behind an allure of mystery, you know? [It's been what he's has to do! Secrets kept him alive. Secrets kept himself and the birds around him safe. Even in this vastly different place, it seems odd to talk about himself.]
Maybe I'm just not suited to this one. [A heavy sigh!]
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[Really, he feel like he should comfort the bird, and it's rapidly getting easier and easier to just think of it as comforting another person who is also a bird, so that's fine. There's really no point to questioning things like this when it's so much easier not to.]
If you're not comfortable talking about it, you shouldn't. [Something like that--someone being forced to talk about their past when they're not comfortable sharing at all--is just wrong in an insidious sort of way.]
Someone else will accomplish this "mission", and you can handle the next one. [Yuuya'd called it a mission, right?]
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... right, the next one! With only one task provided, it's not like we can reasonably predict the next one. [Unless they all have to deal with honesty in which case he may find his color options dreadfully limited. Still, a bird could dream.]
That said, it's such a good opportunity to gather information about how this place works... Say, my fine, bipedal friend, you seem like a good listener. [A little drab, sure, but beneath that impassive face was the aura of a Protagonist, for sure.] If you end up swapping stories with someone and getting a result, how about you pass the details along to me?
I'll, of course, do the same when a mission suited to my skills arises!
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That works for me. [It makes sense, after all. If Yuuya can't do this quest, Minato will see what he can do with it and report back.]
I'll let you know what I find out from everyone. Just leave it to me.
[Oh, right--]
But now that we're not exchanging pasts--we can share our names, right?
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Ah, you're correct! There's no risk in it now. [Ok, maybe there was no risk it in to begin with, but it would be really stupid to start a partnership with someone without exchanging names.]
Yuuya Sakazaki. [he bows dramatically and extends a wing]
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But this is fine; Minato seems satisfied with a name.]
It's nice to meet you-- [The briefest of pauses as he contemplates the right form of address here, and opts for the safe choice.] --Sakazaki-san.
[He nods too, politely.]
I'm Minato. Minato Arisato. I'll do my best to figure out this quest.
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Well, then, Arisato, hopefully this partnership can be beneficial for both of us! [And, if there's not any quests in the future that he can tackle with his own half-branded honesty, that they can work out something else. He can't really flirt his way out of the deal he made himself.]
There must be a purpose to these quests, after all, it can't just be the world's most forceful icebreaker.
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I think you're right. We'll figure it out.
[But regardless:]
For now, I guess I should go try to complete this quest. I'll talk to you later, once I've found something out, Sakazaki-san.
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Well, I suppose I'll have to find a place to roost, then I'll have an address...