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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Would you like to work together and, um, try to finish this quest together?
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Mm. I don't think it can hurt—though I can't promise I'll have anything interesting you tell you, either.
[he's definitely not considering that being sixteen could, maybe... still mean his current situation isn't ruled out from being discussed? then again, he has no idea what will appease the quest, but he's definitely only considering his actual childhood right now.]
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Let's start by introducing ourselves! I'm Izuku Midoriya.
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that seems like a worthwhile enough reason to pursue it. he looks over more properly, offering izuku a small smile and nodding his head.]
Akira Kurusu. It's good to meet you.
[though he's not entirely sure where to go from there. he's never done anything quite like this before.]
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If we're talking about childhood... everyone goes to school. Maybe our favorite subjects or hobbies when we were growing up could be a good place to start?
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[he can't really see why it would be a bad place to start. it might not be enough to finish the quest, but it's probably a good icebreaker.]
Literature and history for me, in school. [something that has carried on well until now.]
Hobbies... video games. Playing baseball, reading.
[he keeps it simple; most of these things are still fairly true of him, he's a pretty normal kid in some respects.]
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Hobbies... [Izuku grins sheepishly.] I collected figures and posters--still do, actually. And quirk analysis, too, I guess.
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not that there's anything wrong with heroes, but he's definitely got an aesthetic, even if he doesn't voice it right now. he nods along with the hobbies, seeing nothing really strange about that much.
it's the last statement that catches his attention, mostly because he doesn't get it.]
Quirk analysis? [what dat, izuku.]
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[At first, Izuku's too caught up in his excited chatter to realize that Akira's confusion might be from something else altogether. Then, it hits him.]
Oh! You... you meant quirks, didn't you. [He should really be used to this by now, considering how many questions he's already gotten.] You don't have them where you're from either?
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I don't think so. [unless it's something he's just totally missed, but he's also pretty sure he's from a place that has some things izuku would be unfamiliar with too.] At least, probably not the way you mean it.
[considering he can't imagine there'd be any casual reason to analyze someone's quirks, there's probably something more to it than just the bare meaning of the word.]
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[He rubs at his neck sheepishly.]
Most people back home have a quirk, so I'm not used to explaining all of this to other people.
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["powers" makes enough sense to him. if it's just another word for that, he doesn't need to worry about an explanation.]
Does that mean you have one of these... quirks?
[he may as well ask, it doesn't seem like it's some kind of secret thing, after all.]
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[Boy this is weird. Izuku wonders briefly if this is what it would've been like to live during the time quirks started turning up.]
You don't have anything like that where you're from?
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Not that I know of. That stuff is usually only in fiction.
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That's...how people used to describe it when quirks started manifesting, too. "Just like in the comic books" and so on. People weren't sure what to think back then.
Um, at least, from what I've read! This all happened a long time ago.
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[wouldn't most people make a similar comparison the first time they experience something like that? akira's pretty willing to roll with the punches, but it doesn't change what it sounds like.]
But if pretty much everyone has it where you're from, then it's just something normal.
[even if it's called a quirk.] It sounds... kind of cool.
[also consider: akira is just a nerd.]