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!
Welcome to Awash's fifth Test Drive Meme! Please check out the FAQ and rules as you test your characters out. The setting is yours to play with, so be creative and have a good time with it!
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Insult battle
[One minute, Avalon is inside the Rift, trying to find a new victim, and the next, they are in the Town, with no reasonable explanation as to why the Rift has chosen to send them here of all places.]
If that child has corrupted my realm, I will kill her entire family when I have finished with her.
[At least they still have their bracelet, seventeen rows of beads coiling up the skinny arm of the tiny female form they have taken.
Avalon begins walking down the street, searching the colorless world around them for any sign of life, preferably her. Of course, they will be satisfied with any life that they can turn upside down and inexplicably take from its owner.
And then, when they finally see you, they find themself feeling a sudden urge to insult you in any way they can think of, murderous intent or not. The first words that come out of their mouth are—]
A pox on you! I will do your mother! And your father, and your sister, and your—
[And this “little girl” will keep going, until someone stops them, or until they get to your grandparents, whichever happens first.]
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Re: Insult battle
[They pause, looking her up and down, and their hand goes to their bracelet.
Their missing bead, arrogant and insistent as ever.]
You followed me.
[Again.
And, because the Town’s strange magic is insistent, they add,]
Daughter of a motherless goat!
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(Anonymous) 2023-03-13 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Insult battle
[As she eats them, Avalon simply disappears into the Rift, their physical body ceasing to exist for a moment. They search for a way out of the Town, but are deposited right back where they had stood a moment ago.]
You will have to follow me again.
[Yes, follow them into their magic-altering realm…]
As a matter of fact, I do not think of you any differently.
[They still want her dead. They want her dead very badly. The only problem is finding a way to make this happen.]