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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You flatter, darling! But I'll take that over 'devil'. Now, if you'd be so kind... have a seat, make yourself at home.
[She already was fixing a cup of tea, not as deep in color as she would have liked, but she was pleased to know it actually tasted like tea this time around. This world... she'd have to work on bringing color back into the food, no doubt.]
I am Madhuri, and fortune-telling is but one of my hobbies.
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Whoever would call you a devil clearly has no taste...unless theh mean devilishly gorgeous!
[Seeing tea makes her miss Minamoto a little. While she never drank much tea herself it was something Minamoto always had handy in the kitchen for himself.]
I'm Kaoru! [Fortune telling isn't something she's exactly unused to. Though hopefully this time the cards won't tell her she'll lead an esper rebellion that engulfs the entire world in a war that brings humanity to the brink of destruction.
She's optimistic about her chances!
So she's smiling.]
Is there anything I need to do?
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Oh, nothing at all, dear. By sitting here with you at peace, I can commune far more accurately with my beloved cards.
I will see future, present, and past. I'm so very curious about Kaoru the admirer, and I would hope you would permit me to sate said curiosity...?
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[She can do that. Maybe.
She wonders though, which part of her past was more important? The five years she spent being terrified of of her own powers and distrustful of adults or the six years she spent with Minamoto and her friends, learning to trust again and to accept themselves despite the powers they had?]
It's not very nice though. My past.
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[She began to lay out three cards in a row facedown, and canted her head curiously.]
Neither is mine, I'm afraid. My ancestors long ago made a pact with an archdevil. Little evil exists within the hearts of my people, yet we will forever be born with the horns and tails of demons. It makes social situations... a gamble, I suppose you could say.
Let's look, then, to the future. [She flipped the card, and hummed thoughtfully.
The card revealed was a couple standing on what appears to be an altar, hands joined.]
...The Lovers? My, my...
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[She smiled, not the same cheery thing before, but something softer. Because she knew exactly how that was--well, maybe not the whole 'made a pact with the devil' part. But she had dealt with being treated like a monster because of nothing but her powers.]
That's always awful, isn't it? To be hated for something you had no control over. [And, really, something that had nothing to do with the sort of person you were.] Luckily, there are people who will look past those things and see you for who you are.
[Even if there will always be discrimination and hatred there will also be people like Minamoto who would choose to look beyond it.
But she blushes when the card is revealed.]
Ah...the Lovers? Wh-what does that mean? I don't have any thing like that...
[Does this have to do with Minamoto...? She presses her hands over her cheeks like it could hide her embarrassment. Maybe having her fortune told wasn't such a good idea, after all.]