Prompt 1:
 t's probably been at least a little while since you managed to climb out of the well, so hopefully you've dried off by now and are enjoying poking around the Town. But who cares about all of that? More importantly, the Town has a new feature this time, for reasons entirely unknown to everyone.
The flowers...seem to be talking. They have no faces, but they will definitely turn to talk to you, and if they have had their color restored, they will very brightly and contentedly compliment you, or your clothing, or wish you well.
If they haven't? Prepare yourself for all sorts of horrible, horrible insults, because that's all that's coming your way.
Prompt 2:
 ow are you settling in? Is the Town treating you well? It's not as bad as it used to be; some of the houses have color, some of the food has color and taste as well. It's been polished up a bit since everyone first got here.
Granted, when you wake up that morning to find yourself in full fancy wear of many different types (all colorless, and gender has nothing to do with which you might end up in), you'll find that the Town might not be as well put together as it seems.
You can't get out of the formal wear. It just won't come off, no matter what you do. Which wouldn't be so bad, but... it seems like these clothes will snag on just about everything in the Town, which is far from smooth. Try not to trip over those loose cobblestones, or your dress snagging on a nail sticking out from a door frame. This is really not the place for this sort of clothing.
Prompt 3:
e loves me, he loves me not... that's a pretty familiar game, right? For some reason, the urge to pick one of those flowers and casually pluck the petals from it while playing that game is going to grow stronger and stronger the more flowers you see. Eventually? You're just going to have to cave to it.
(Certainly it doesn't help that the flowers scream a bit when you pull their petals; they still can talk right now, after all!)
She loves you, she loves you not...and by the time you've picked the last petal, you've forgotten who you were even thinking of originally -- instead, the very next person you see is going to be the victim of a very impassioned declaration of love. Don't worry, you'll come back to yourself...after you declare your undying love for everyone to hear.
Prompt 4:
 ut no matter how many people tell you not to go into the forest, however, it's still rather enticing, isn't it? It's sitting right there, waiting for you to explore it, waiting for you to just step a little bit out of the Town...
And soon, you're surrounded by the dark boughs of the trees, the twisty, turny paths of the woods, where it feels like you're wandering in circles for hours upon hours --
And then, after ages of tree branches yanking at your hair and roots tripping you up, you find a clearing.
And in that clearing? There's a field of flowers. They're colorless -- strangely eerie because of it, but still distinctly recognizable to the flower familiar as Asphodel. And touching any single one of those flowers will suddenly give you vivid memories of one of your precious friends -- so long as they're dead. Anyone around you is going to experience that flash of memory too, so be careful!
Extra:
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Rising to their feet, they turn to face Guren— ]
Traitor! It's your fau--
[ —and swipe the head clean off of the offending flower in a golden flash, right before retracting their arm back into its usual shape. Whoops. :|a ]
I don't like what they're saying, so we should dig them up.
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Cut it out. If you want to fix it, then get working on your relationship with others, and you'll restore color to them. [It's a long, complicated process, he's pretty sure, but he's hoping this will stop them from stomping on grey flowers in the meantime?]
If you dig them all up, we'll have nothing left. This place is already ugly enough, so just leave the flowers alone.
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My relationships with others? [ They bring a hand to their chin, tilting their head. ] The reasons the flowers are gray and nasty, it's because you're also rude, right? We need to become friends to fix it?
[ l o g i c ]
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[How can he just exclude himself from this!! He knows he's rude, he tries real hard.]
The closer people become, the more the color returns to the town. That's why some of the flowers have colors. Did you get a good listen to those ones?
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[ Phos has low self-esteem, why would they believe something nice a flower tells them. Please.]
If the colored flowers are fine, then we should work on fixing the uncolored ones. [ Original idea right here. ] So tell me your name, we'll become besties and get rid of all these mean flowers.
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[He wants out of this already!!! But alright, he can give in a little. He's going to want to get to know them eventually, anyway.]
Guren Ichinose. Yours?
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[ But do they mean it? Not likely. Anyway, friendship!]
Phosphophyllite. Are you always this protective of flowers, Guren?
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[This sassy brat. Anyway, what a mouthful of a name... He'll call them Phos, he's lazy like that.]
If you destroyed everything here that tried to trash talk you, we'd end up in a wasteland. They'll stop in time, so leave them alone.
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[ It just seemed like the proper thing to do given their career, okay hater. Phos is being very considerate right now. ]
But I won't ruin any more of them, if they're not hurting anyone. Is there anything else I should know?
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[GUREN]
But fine, let's go through it quickly. Don't go in the forest, especially not alone. I'd tell you not to walk into the harbor, but I hope you'd know that already. And then, you've got a laptop that you can use to communicate with others.
Everything else, you'll figure it out, including these shitty flowers.
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[ So much information.. But these all sound like things that humans should worry about, so Phos is mentally discarding all of it except for one thing: ]
I just have one more question. What is a 'laptop'?
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[Does he have to explain in more detail than that... he doesn't want to.]
You'll find yours, and then you can have someone show you how to use it.
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[ It doesn't matter what you want, Guren, this is Phos you're talking to. ]
How are we supposed to become besties if you won't even teach me how to use a laptop?
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[STOP!!! THEY'RE NOT]
We're not friends. Go find someone else.
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[ This is the face of INNOCENCE. ]
But you probably know a lot about it! Pleeeeeease!
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[GUREN]