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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in any case, akira's ready, chicken in his arms and prepared to head to wherever it is they need to go. minor details.]
I wonder if we get some kind of extra reward.... aside from the constant supply of eggs.
[hand it over, quest giver, whatever it is.]
We deserve it.
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[ Alas, RIP ridiculous coattails. Also, she's got the eggs held in her hands again, miraculously keeping hold of them as she hops to her feet, trailing right by Akira's side. They do have the rest of the forest to get through, and who's to say that there won't be worse than a couple feathered fiends like this one...? She'd have to look after him, obviously. ]
Still think we did pretty good though.
[ Nice work, leader. ]
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[no, akira. because you look like a huge nerd in your day-to-day life. and really, carrying a mutant chicken probably only exacerbates this instead of looking like a suave and cool phantom thief.
but it's fine. futaba knows the truth anyway, so akira can kind of laugh that off, offering her a pleased nod. they have the chicken, they have the eggs.]
I'd say we made out like bandits this time. [appropriately fitting for everything they are.]
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Duh. Can't let our reputation as Phantom Thieves slip just 'cause we're in some crazy new world.
[ Though, now that the rush is over and they're stuck traveling through this crummy forest again, her expression slowly folds, faded leaves crunching underfoot. ]
Even if it's not the same without everyone else...
[ It's not that she's unhappy with the results—it's been fun, a good way to get her mind off things with her best coffee bro—but it's these kinds of moments that are better as a crew. Getting their lumps and laughs in, all the varied brands of mischief... and of course, sharing the spoils after. ]
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Yeah. It's definitely missing something without them.
[morgana acting like he knew what to do along, ryuji loudly exclaiming their victories, yusuke rambling about the aesthetics of the situation—every single one of the phantom thieves had a place in a situation like this, and akira can imagine them all clearly. it's definitely a bit of a downer to be just the two of them, with no sign that the others are even okay or safe.
but akira will always be akira about these things; he believes in them, and he believes in what he and futaba are capable of in the meanwhile.]
Guess we'll just have to pick up their slack and put them on cooking duty when they show up late.
[there's definitely a time and place to discuss this more seriously, but he wants to keep futaba's spirits up too—especially as they're wandering around carrying a mutant chicken and some eggs.]