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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[which she thought would be obvious just looking at her, but she guesses that not every human has personally encountered a gem in their lives. it still seems a little silly to think that something so clearly different from yourself would still be the same species, but humans just seemed to be like that. if they could squeeze it into one of their little boxes, then they absolutely would.
I don't know how stands work here either but to be perfectly honest Lapis would react about the same whether she can see it or not, aka not at all. she's from a race of sentient rocks with some really weird abilities, summoning another person/invisible power waves just aren't that unusual for her, although she does watch with a vague sort of interest. she waits to see if any of the squished flowers bounce back before nodding in agreement.]
That's a lot faster than the way I was doing it earlier.
[nice.]
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What the hell are you, then, because you're sure as hell not an animal.
[He Is Trying, but alien rocks who make their own bodies out of light aren't really a thing where he comes from.]
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[she sounds vaguely offended that he'd even think to limp her in with mammals of all things, but it's a very faint sort of distaste. Lapis' expectations have tunneled far below rock bottom ever since being stranded on earth, and interacting with one of the planet's shining examples of evolution isn't about to change that.
maybe this wouldn't happen so often if her gem was placed a little closer to her face? ah, to have been mined that way.]
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[That only even remotely makes sense because some of the things Jotaro read when he was trying to figure out what Star Platinum was talked about objects turning into spirits when they got old enough. It's still a little freaking weird, but so's an orangutan who likes girly mags, and this way he has her all nicely organized in his tiny human mind.]
...What kind? [He's guessing one of the blue ones. Some of the colorless flowers call him rude, but they can choke on it.]
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Lapis Lazuli.
[this question is a little more understandable; her wings aren't out nor are her powers in use, and her gem is located on her back. without any obvious markings it could be easier to mistake her for something else at first glance.]
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Sorry about the mix-up. I've never met a-- [Will she try to kill him if he calls her a rock? She doesn't seem like the type, but best not to press it when he just wants to see civilization again.] --gem before. I'm Jotaro.