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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[he's not really judging her life choices here. sometimes, you've gotta take an aggressive stance on things when you face obstacles! most people would probably not set the tree on fire, but then, most people probably can't do that with relative ease.]
Just in case. ["just in case" of what, akira?]
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Just in case... that it could cause more retaliation from the other trees, you mean? [ Or attract more monsters, for all she knows. ] Well, it'll be over soon enough.
But don'y you think this color adds to the place in the meantime?
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If not the trees, something else. This whole forest has a... vibe.
[it's just eerie, even if can't specifically say that there's actually anything there besides them. it's not even instinct, it's just some sort of underlying, unsettled feeling he gets from it.]
But the fire definitely... lights things up a bit.
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[ A really weird one. ]
Now I’m wondering which Titan we’re on... if we’re on one at all. [ Which she is starting to suspect. ]
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[pun actually not intended this time, that's just the best terminology he can think of for this situation.]
But... Titan? [proably the more important question here, because he has no idea what she's talking about... which probably lends to her suspicions being on the right track here.]
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That's right, a Tita-- [ She's about to say, but then notices his confused expression. How can he not know...?
Then again, looking at him more closely clues her in a bit more. He isn't dressed in anything typical of any of the nations of which she's familiar... ] You... [ She takes one, almost shaky breath as a thought occurs to her. A very troubling thought. ] You’re not from Alrest, are you?
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in any case—pyra's assumptions aren't wrong here, and akira offers her a bit of a shrug.]
You caught me.
[he's never even heard of alrest.]
I don't even know where that is.
[surprise...!]
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At first I thought this was some sort of strange dream... [ For being all in greyscale. ] But now that doesn't seem like the case, either.
The next question is where do we go from here, or what are we supposed to do here?