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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ii.
He just kind of blinks from at Dave's side, hands shoved into his pockets.]
... Think we should just keep going through the forest, then?
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anyway, his gaze shifts to the side...not that anyone can tell, although his head turning slightly is a better visual clue. ]
I mean. I feel like we're "supposed" to go in there if we follow whatever bullshit narrative this place is tryin' to force on us, but like...we don't have to follow it, right? We can just say no thank you creepy puppet man and go on our merry way and write our own story, with hookers and blow. Only not with hookers and blow, but like, a billion types of grey food.
[ he'd make a fifty shades of grey joke no one wanted to hear, but that was released in 2011. so you're spared, minato. ]
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Minato just nods at that, though; there's really no reason to argue it. Following someone else's set up narrative isn't that interesting to him either. So he patiently listens to all of Dave's...everything...and then offers up:]
We could probably go around the house instead.
... And maybe find a billion types of grey food. Do you think it tastes okay like that?
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[ he starts walking around the house, because fuck going inside? ]
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So like...
[Uh.]
Some...berries or something? [What can you scavenge in a forest? He doesn't know.]
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[ ................
HIS WILDLIFE SKILLS ARE...NOT...GREAT... ]
Uh. Maybe we should try to get a birds' eye view to see if there's any other settlements.
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A birds' eye view... you mean climbing a tree, or something like that?
[Minato does not feel 100% confident in this plan, but.... YOU KNOW... MAYBE...]
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[ DYING COMES IN HANDY SOMETIMES if you do it on a quest bed. ]
[1/2]
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I guess that makes more sense. Okay, I'll...wait here then.
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apparently his flying is as casual as his walking. ]
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Go fly to your heart's content, Dave.
Minato will stay here on the ground.]
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I do see some kinda village or something in that direction - but I might have to keep checking our bearing as we go. I bet this place is purposefully hard to navigate, just to be a bitch.
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That's useful... it's a good thing you can fly. [... For real, though, how.] I guess I'm pretty lucky I ended up finding you.
[Minato would be lost in the woods forever.]
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[ have a nod as he shoves his hands into his pockets, minato. ]
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[He'll keep it simple.]
You're right, though... I think I was starting to go cross-eyed without seeing anything with color or anything.
[At least this way he can focus on Dave, who is not weird and colorless and questionable.]
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Like, same? It feels like a weird dream bubble, but not at all. I mean, things look to be at least a little bit more solid. [ he's started walking because he wants to be Not In Nature. full fucking offense to nature!!!!! ] So, hey, I don't suppose you remember anything in particular from right before you got here?
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Not...in particular, no.
[He kicked the bucket, which is probably pretty common in Homestuck.]
You?
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[ ............................
apparently that's all he's offering up, mildly, but he recalls Death so ]
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It's fine.]
So it's probably nothing like that. How did we even end up here...?
[SO STRANGE.]
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OKAY
dave sounds like he hates the idea tho because why does it make sense. fml ]
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[???]
You mean like... this place ended up where we were?
[But they were dead as a doornail so that doesn't work.]
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[ this is a thing even if you are dead.
because homestuck ]
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[what.]
...Actually. No. Sorry, I don't think I understand at all.
[HE TRIED BUT. ALSO. WHAT.]
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[ dave...............why won't you even try (look) ]
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