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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Huh...]
I don't think you'll be able to dig very deeply with a pickaxe, Ryoji. [But if he was trying to create a very deep hole, he did a great job.
So while Ryoji has a pretty tight grip on that handle, Minato just foregoes it entirely to dig his shovel into the dirt next to the pickaxe. If Ryoji can't pull it out, Minato's noodle arms are not going to be any more successful.
So they're not unearthing fossils, they're unearthing pickaxes, it's fine. And as soon as it's loose enough to probably tug out:]
Ah. Hooray. We dug something up. [Victory, right.]
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...That we did! [ It's true. Technically. It might not be the rock that he was hoping for, but freeing the pickax is an accomplishment enough for Ryoji to nod proudly at the deed. It wouldn't do to leave the ax stuck in there, and this way, they've got another chance.
Clutching the tool to his chest with one hand, Ryoji kneels down next to the rock, tongue poking out in between his lips as he reaches out with his other hand to give it a little test wiggle to see if it's loosened any. It hasn't. But doing so makes him recall something he might have heard around school, or saw on tv or at the movies, or is actually just me in the middle of writing a completely unrelated Minato tag about licking rocks and gasped out loud when this came in a Google search. ]
Oh! I just remembered how to tell the difference between a rock and a fossil. [ He looks at Minato with sparkling eyes. EXPECTANT EYES. ] You lick it.
[ It sticks on your tongue because bone is porous and stone is not. ]
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........ Yeah.
Uh.
What?
(Minato does vaguely recall hearing that somewhere--whether it was an evening with some random program playing on the TV while he did something else, or in a book....)
It doesn't matter though, because Ryoji looks awfully expectant about rock licking.
There's a long pause as Minato contemplates the ramifications of licking the rock, and ducks the problem entirely for the moment by offering up a bland:]
I wonder what rocks taste like...? [He's eaten dirt before, in the "swung a sword way too wide and faceplanted" sort of way, but this takes that to a new level.]
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[ There's no escape from this, Minato, but at least Ryoji won't let him do it alone, flopping down onto his stomach, propped up on his elbows, and patting the slab of rock in invitation for Minato to do the same.
He might've forgotten some details about the whole fossil identification thing, like the fact that it's not taste that they can tell things apart, but. Do it for the experience. ]
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Maybe we should dig the rock out first.
[Will that help them? No, absolutely not. But it's an option, albeit one that seems like a lot of work.
(Work vs Ryoji continuing to smile... hrm.)]
This seems a little... [NOT RIGHT...?]
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Huh. ]
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Well then.
Minato just...blinks slowly. He probably should've stopped Ryoji from doing that. But. Too late now.]
... So... was it a fossil or a rock? [Minato knows full well you can't just taste the difference, even if he doesn't remember the actual reasoning behind licking them, okay, he's just being a shit.]
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[ What if they're both shits.
IT'S NOT TECHNICALLY UNTRUE there is probably some dead stuff embedded into the rock, old as it looks and it's probably been lying around here forever. ]
But this is its home now, so maybe we shouldn't bother it.
[ Even if they could dig it out, what are they supposed to do with a slab of rock anyways? ]
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I think you're right. [What would they even do with it?] Let's leave it alone for now.
Are you ready to keep looking around, now? [They were...definitely doing something before this fossil insanity.]
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...In either case, a fistpump into the air! ] Let's go! [ Wherever they're going! Bye, quarry. ]
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Mm, this way.
[Minato, on the other hand, has not forgotten that regrouping with other people is Top Priority.
Even though, this being a TDM thread, they are doomed to failure.]
I wonder if it gets dark here...? It must, but... [Does...the forest change to be a darker shade of NO COLOR? Puzzling thoughts.]