Prompt 1:
 t happens in a flash. One second you're wandering the Town, living your casual, day-to-day life, and the next? You're suddenly face to face with a sweet fairy godmother. She's beautiful, and kind, and warm-hearted, tutting at you gently and encouraging you to just "answer a few questions for me, dearie".
If you don't, she'll just keep following you around, so maybe you should just get it over with...?
The questions she asks, are, well... a little personal. Have you ever killed someone? Have you ever had sex? Have you ever been jealous of someone else? Have you ever stolen? Have you ever been unkind?
The questions go on and on in that vein, growing increasingly unfair, until there's one you just can't answer -- and then she sighs, shaking her head, and declares you "not pure of heart at all". And then she'll cast a curse on you, before disappearing in a poof of nothingness.
The curse can do any of the following things:
1. Force you to only speak the truth, no matter how you try.
2. Make your powers run amuck, no matter how competent you are with them otherwise.
3. Just generally remove your inhibitions, so that you'll do things you'd normally be convinced are a bad idea.
Of course, if you're totally pure of heart and can answer everything yes a la Disney princesses, you won't get cursed at all. She'll pat you on the head before disappearing, you lucky duck, you.
Prompt 2:
t comes upon you like an absolutely ridiculous urge, one that's surely the Town's doing -- one moment you're walking, the next, the moment you see someone else, you feel the urge to intensely, fiercely engage in an insults battle.
This can take the form of flowery Shakespearean insults, or a rap battle, or who knows what else -- all your character knows is that they desperately have to win this battle of insults with this total stranger. Get to it!
Prompt 3:
 he quest sits proudly and clearly on the quest post on the forum. It seems simple, too:
Quest 87
Beautify the Kraken
Requirements: Any two colors.
Surely you can manage that much! So off to the harbor you go to find a kraken. That's actually the easy part; the kraken will emerge to anyone wading into the woods.
The much harder part is...beautifying it. Good luck trying to put some lipstick on it as it tries to drag you down into the depths! How much eyeshadow would a kraken even need? Do you even have any make-up on you from this desolated Town?
Prompt 4:
here's something weird about the Town today. It's foggy, and dark, and gloomy, which is a far cry from the typical summer warmth... and oddly silent too, as if the fog is muffling all sound. It gets quieter the closer you get to the well, too... and it feels like something is watching you.
Which is because, quiet simply, something is. It's a small, white porcelain doll, without a face. It just appears wherever you walk, staring you down as you go. It won't move while you're watching it, but as soon as you turn around...
It's suddenly right there next to you.
It doesn't actually want to hurt you. It's just there, following you, constantly... how obnoxious, this isn't a horror film!
Extra:
Got something in mind? Want to play with the setting more? The sky's the limit, so feel free and make up your own prompts to play with!
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( Yuma begins to turn toward the direction of the district, only to halt mid pivot. He looks past Sakura to the strange presence behind her. )
Hm? Does that doll belong to you?
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Yes. ( She did lose her way which is embarrassing to admit. She should know how to get around by now but this fog has her all turned around. ) Th-thank you.
( She's so relieved by the offer to be led back though and she bows, giving him a relieved smile. She's only taken her first step when he turns back to ask her-- )
Hm? ( She looks back at the doll. Normally, she's quite jumpy and easily frightened but being completely unfamiliar with this particular horror trope, she doesn't seem too terribly bothered, ) No.... no, it isn't.
( And she goes back to pick it up, kneeling down and looking around. )
Do you think someone's lost it?
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( This is all he has to comment. With neither party's being familiar with this trope, Yuma faces their destination again. His goal now is to lead this lost individual back to Ruga; she can take care of the doll if that's what she desires. )
Let us go before the weather takes a turn for the worse.
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(The doll not having a face and all that. She also doesn't sense anyone else around but she doesn't really have any sharpened senses or anything like that to tell. It's more like she just doesn't hear or see anyone around immediately.)
O-oh, wait a minute, please. (Uhm,) Would you mind terribly if... if we looked around just a little? I'm afraid there m-might be a child out...
(Why else would there really be a doll out here? It must belong to a child, right?)
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( Yuma's initial response is to refuse. She asked to be led to Ruga, and that's what he intends to do. The task he's taken up has nothing to do with his true occupation, however, and so he reasons that he can allow some leeway. )
We'll circle this area before heading for Ruga.
( He turns around (again) and pauses (again), looking confused. There, next to Sakura, is another doll. )
Could there be two children? . . . Or was one carrying two of the same doll?
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O-of course.
( Oh, but when he seems to relent just a little, she looks up again. )
Oh..! Thank you. I promise, we'll be quick-- ( What was that? She follows his eyes and looks down at... the second doll. ) ... How strange.
( She kneels down to pick it up and turns it over in her hand, )
B-but how did it get here? Surely.... surely, we would have noticed this earlier a-and yet...
( Oh, she's beginning to go pale. She doesn't like this anymore. )
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( This, he can say with confidence. Yuma knows his senses to be far sharper than those of an average human's. Stepping closer—but not too much to be intrusive—he appraises the doll in Sakura's hand, only to find his gaze drawn to her face. )
You've grown pale. Are you feeling unwell?