Three Lilies and Their Ghost Stories

This visual novel contains suicide from a height, familial death, bullying, vomiting, discussions of terminal illness (cancer), animal death, suggestive content, and climate change speculation. Player discretion is advised.

As long as humans exist, so will their ghosts. Three different areas, three different decades, three different tales. Join our lesbian protagonists on their supernatural adventures—and witness how thin the line separating us from the afterlife truly is.

During the ‘90s rural migration in China, rumors spread of an "inescapable" abandoned village on one of the Shengsi Islands. A young woman named Song Anna decides to hunt this village down, but during her hike she stumbles and falls into thick fog. When she comes to, Song Anna finds herself in the village...and she’s not alone.

One Halloween night in 2010s United States, Aayla and Najwa, two college students in a relationship, receive a call from Aayla’s little sister Deja asking for them to pick her up from a party. They’re roped into dropping off two of Deja’s friends, one of which seems oddly tense. On their way to their first stop, they get lost in the neighborhood, and soon find themselves in an empty copy...

In the 2030s, the United Nations contracts a tech company to build floating cities for displaced climate refugees, which become infamous for their "survivor lottery" systems. One such city floating in the Atlantic Ocean suddenly experiences an unusual power outage. Two plant maintenance workers, Tara and Anzu, their third polycule member Kiran, and the Director of Island Operations go down to investigate, and what they find is... 

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Three Lilies and Their Ghost Stories is a kinetic (choice-less) story anthology originally conceptualized for the Spooktober 2020 jam. Featuring three distinct supernatural stories (a romance, a horror, and a sci-fi thriller) and girl x girl pairings, Three Lilies has something for every ghost- and yuri-loving visual novel reader.

Features

• ~30k words, with around ~10k words per tale
  
• Highly active cinematic experience
• Accessibility features such as font choices, image and audio captions, screenshake disable, and a photosensitive mode
• Chapter select following the first clear of the game
• 9 anime-style CGs and a gallery that allows you to view CGs, backgrounds, and cut-ins.

Credits

• Scenario, artwork, programming, UI, direction, character design: papaya
• Editing: Faust, Cherimoya
• Music: MusMus, audioAtelier, H/MIX GALLERY, Presence of Music, Peritune, shimtone, Kazuchi, H, T.Waraya, OtoLogic
  
• SFX: OtoLogic, Sound Effect Lab, Taira Komori, Audionautics, reidedo, Vita-Chi Sozaikan

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