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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It's why he doesn't actually say anything just yet. He lingers back, watching for a brief moment and finding it interesting that she's appeared when he and Nico were just talking about her, Leo and Apollo. He's about to say something to her before he clues in to what the flowers are saying, lifting an eyebrow before he looks back to her.]
It could be worse. I heard that one time it was the furniture that was insulting everybody. [Surely this won't go poorly. Surely.]
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[The words are said without thinking. Well, without thinking about who is making the comment. She is thinking about Leo, and maybe her table that he turned into a bonfire.
It only takes a moment before she turns around, hands being pushed deep into her pink parka and eyes wide at seeing exactly who had said about insulting furniture.]
Oh.
[The word is flat. Neither happy nor sad, just fact. Nico had said that he was here, which made seeing him less jarring than it might have been had she not known.]
Nico said you were here, for, four months?
[She wasn't sure if that was right.]
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Something like that. It's been a while. People are trying to figure out a good timeline stuff but that sounds about right. [He's not going to ask how she knows. He can guess.] ...hey. [...maybe he should have started with that, but alas.]
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Time's strange.
[She really hadn't thought about it before leaving her island, and now she thought about it all the time. How little time they had to warn Camp Jupiter, what time school started. Even what time they were going to eat seemed to be on her mind more than in the past.]
Do you know who did this?
[This world, she still couldn't think of any god that would do this. Most of them would find it completely tacky and most of the other immortals wouldn't bother or had specific criteria to why they would do it.]
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[The good thing is it's not Hera.] Pretty sure it's nobody we actually know though. [Which...is the bad thing.]
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At the mention of a 'laptop', Calypso tilts her head slightly. Through all the time she and Leo had spent trying to return to Camp Half-Blood, they'd never really had time to introduce her to modern technology. That and Leo would probably have just blown anything like that up by accident.]
Laptop?
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[...it's sort of like Camp, actually, now that he thinks about it.]