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Lily
Lily

Overview

Lily is a silver-haired wandering bard who becomes a regular at the Medieval Bards Guild after six successful discovery encounters. Her current route includes seven automatic story scenes, three illustrated Heart-to-Hearts, two dates, daily Wine and a song-performance progression.
This guide explains the unlocks and counters while leaving her personal history, song lyrics and later emotional scenes to the game.

Quick Stats

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 24 / Medieval / Neutral
Main location Bards Guild, King's Demesne
Schedule after discovery 1 PM–midnight, every day
NPC unlock Six successful encounters, combined across her dungeon and Back Alleys discovery routes
Favorite stats Creativity 60; Charm 55; Communication 50
Special relationship skill Empathy
Gift Wine, at Known; once daily
H2H window 9 PM–midnight
Dates Lantern Rhythms; A Rest Between Notes
Route song The Rose and the Thorn, unlocked during her story
Favorite stat thresholds improve ordinary affection gains, and Empathy doubles her relationship multiplier. Listed affection rewards are base values before modifiers; discovery progress, Bards Guild clout, venue count and ordinary affection are separate requirements.

Unlocking Lily at the Guild

You need six successful discovery encounters, rather than six sightings. Both routes below advance the same saved counter.
Discovery route What counts Other result
Dungeon wandering bard — Listen to her play Always adds one discovery success in live gameplay Fully restores Health, Energy and Calm to their current maximums
Dungeon wandering bard — Play music with her Adds one only on a successful music roll +1 Bards Guild clout and 30 Lily NPC intimacy experience, missionary classification
Medieval Back Alleys — Play music with her Adds one only on a successful music roll; needs at least one composed song +1 Bards Guild clout
Dungeon listening is the reliable route once you encounter her: it does not require a composed song or a successful roll. Dungeon music success compares 10 times your composed-song count against a 1–120 roll: one song gives about 8.3%, six give 50%, and twelve or more guarantee the music check.
For the Back Alleys, use Explore Back Alleys until the random bard encounter appears. Its music chance is 10% per composed song, capped at 100%. A successful duet advances discovery. Walking away, failed music, pickpocketing and the illusion option do not advance her discovery counter.
These are encounter chances, not guarantees that each dungeon step or alley search finds Lily. EXTRAS replays do not increase discovery or award gameplay rewards.
After the sixth success, she leaves the random wandering-bard encounter pools and becomes available at the Bards Guild, 1 PM–midnight. Visit for The Echo Finds a Room. You do not need a particular relationship stage to trigger that introduction.
  1. Complete six successful discoveries, then visit the Bards Guild, 1 PM–midnight, for The Echo Finds a Room. Caring or Funny gives 20 base affection total.
  2. Reach Acknowledged and 10 Bards Guild clout, then return after the introduction for Songs Without Endings. At Known, Wine opens.
  3. At Known, after Songs Without Endings, start A Note She Won't Resolve, 9 PM–midnight.
  4. At Friend, complete Lantern Rhythms, 5–10 PM, after the first H2H. Raise Bards Guild clout to 15 and visit the Rose & Thorn Bar, 9 AM–midnight, for A House With Two Names.
  5. Raise Guild clout to 20, then return to the Guild at Friend for The Rose and the Thorn. This unlocks the route song and records its first Guild performance.
  6. At Close Friend, after that scene and the first H2H, start After the Applause, 9 PM–midnight. Complete A Rest Between Notes, 6–10 PM, afterward.
  7. Perform The Rose and the Thorn at at least three distinct official venues, reach 25 Guild clout, and return to the Guild at Close Friend after the second date for Both Names on the Page.
  8. Reach 30 Guild clout, then return at Close Friend for Where the Echo Returns. Start it at the Guild; its scene location does not mean you must find another random dungeon encounter.
  9. Perform the route song at all four official venues and reach 40 Guild clout. At Crush, after Where the Echo Returns, visit the Rose & Thorn Bar, 9 AM–midnight, for A Place in the Refrain.
  10. At Crush, after A Place in the Refrain and After the Applause, start Without the Song, 9 PM–midnight, at the Guild.
Both dates are required for later automatic scenes in this route. High affection alone does not replace the H2H completions, clout thresholds or distinct-venue requirements.

Daily Affection

Action Requirements Cost Base reward / allowance
Talk to Lily Lily unlocked and present at the Guild 20 minutes 1 base affection; four times per day
Give Wine Known 10 minutes; one Wine 5 base affection; once per day
Four talks and one Wine take 90 minutes and one Wine, for 9 base affection before modifiers. Talk and Wine use separate daily counters. Their handlers award the values above despite their zero-point action placeholders.
An over-limit action records −1 base affection. An over-limit Wine gift still consumes the Wine through the shared gift path, so wait for the next game day before giving another.

Automatic Story Scenes

Each automatic scene runs once. Guild scenes use 1 PM–midnight, and the two Rose & Thorn Bar scenes use 9 AM–midnight. Build the Bar to at least level 1 so that location is accessible.
Automatic scene Location Requirements Base reward
The Echo Finds a Room Bards Guild Six successful Lily discovery encounters; 1 PM–midnight 15
Songs Without Endings Bards Guild Lily: Acknowledged+; The Echo Finds a Room completed; Bards Guild reputation 10+; 1 PM–midnight 12
A House With Two Names The Bar Lily: Friend+; Songs Without Endings completed; Lanterns Have Their Own Rhythm with Lily completed; Bards Guild reputation 15+; 9 AM–midnight 18
The Rose and the Thorn Bards Guild Lily: Friend+; A House With Two Names completed; Bards Guild reputation 20+; 1 PM–midnight 20
Both Names on the Page Bards Guild Lily: Close Friend+; The Rose and the Thorn completed; A Rest Between Notes with Lily completed; Bards Guild reputation 25+; The Rose and the Thorn performed at at least three distinct official venues; 1 PM–midnight 25
Where the Echo Returns Bards Guild Lily: Close Friend+; Both Names on the Page completed; Bards Guild reputation 30+; 1 PM–midnight 50
A Place in the Refrain The Bar Lily: Crush+; Where the Echo Returns completed; Bards Guild reputation 40+; The Rose and the Thorn performed at all four official venues; 9 AM–midnight 30


The scene's completed predecessor flags are required even after you exceed its affection or clout threshold. Choice categories affect affection and immediate responses; all replies in each story scene converge on completion.
Scene Highest-affection reply category Choice bonus Highest total base affection
The Echo Finds a Room Caring/Funny 5 20
Songs Without Endings Caring/Flirty 6 18
A House With Two Names Caring/Flirty 7 25
The Rose and the Thorn Caring/Funny 8 28
Both Names on the Page Caring/Flirty 9 34
Where the Echo Returns Caring 10 60
A Place in the Refrain Caring/Flirty 10 40


The Rose and the Thorn additionally grants 3 Bards Guild clout, unlocks the song in your song list and records its Guild debut. That debut already counts as one of the four official venues and uses the Guild's performance allowance for that game day.

Performing the Route Song and Building Clout

For the venue gates, choose The Rose and the Thorn in Perform Song at these four locations. Repeating it at one place does not increase the number of distinct venues.
Official venue Access window / requirement
Bards Guild 1 PM–midnight; the route scene records this debut automatically
Performance Stage, King's Demesne 6 AM–9 PM
Rowdy Alehouse, King's Demesne 8 PM–midnight and midnight–3 AM
Rose & Thorn Bar The Bar must be built and accessible; perform from its location action
Each ordinary Perform Song action takes 60 minutes and 30 Energy. You can perform once per game day at each venue. That venue's allowance is shared across songs; performing another song there uses the same daily allowance.
Because the Guild debut already counts, perform the route song at any two of the remaining three venues to reach the three-venue gate. Perform at the last remaining venue for the four-venue gate. A personal performance for Kuro, listening to music or performing a different song does not count toward these specific gates.
For Guild clout, an ordinary performance gives +1 clout the first time a particular song is performed at a particular venue. Repeat performances have a 10% chance of +1, or 20% with Master Performer. Completing eligible Bards Guild Quest Board tasks is another clout source. Ordinary performance payouts do not directly award Lily affection unless a separately triggered scene does so.
You can use additional composed songs to obtain more first-performance clout. The standard composing route requires Song Writing and Music Production, Creativity 50, and Compose Song at the Present Downtown Music Studio, noon–11 PM. Song Writing is learned at the Guild with Creativity 25, effectively 1–9 PM, for 220 minutes, $300, 60 Energy and 60 Calm. Music Production is learned at the Studio with Technology 25, noon–11 PM, for 180 minutes, $500, 50 Energy and 50 Calm. A committed composing attempt costs 30 minutes, $200 and 30 Energy; successfully finish it to add a song.
Lily's route song is awarded by her story handler: once you have reached that scene, performing it does not add a Song Writing or Music Production skill requirement of its own. Those skills are useful for making additional songs and for the optional pre-unlock alley duet strategy.

Heart-to-Hearts

All three H2Hs start at the Guild, 9 PM–midnight, and complete once. Each costs 90 minutes and 15 Energy, with the configured positive Calm effect shown below.
H2H Requirements Calm effect Highest standard base points With Empathy response
A Note She Won't Resolve Known; Songs Without Endings +8 88 90, special round 2
After the Applause Close Friend; The Rose and the Thorn; first H2H completed +10 99 101, special round 2
Without the Song Crush; A Place in the Refrain; second H2H completed +15 120 122, special round 2
Each Empathy response replaces the standard best round-2 reply with 2 more base points and unlocks that conversation's variant. The shared relationship calculation applies to the completed choice total. A learned Romantic skill adds 25 final affection afterward, independently of relationship stage.

A Note She Won't Resolve

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I would keep listening even if you never resolved it. 14
2 He stole more than credit. He tried to rewrite your memory of making it. 17
3 If you ever invite someone in, they should arrive as a guest—not an owner. 18
4 I want to hear your endings in your voice. 19
5 Thank you for trusting me with the sound of it. 20


After the Applause

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I loved watching you, but I came back here for you. 17
2 The part that held me had nothing to do with scandal. 19
3 What remains has cold feet and forgot to eat dinner. 20
4 Pride can stay yours even when applause changes from room to room. 21
5 Come closer. Let the empty room hold us for a while. 22


Without the Song

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 You never need a song to hold my attention. 20
2 I want the truth at this distance, if you want to give it. 22
3 I want you without any claim attached. 24
4 I have wanted your kiss without needing to name what number it is. 26
5 Kiss her again and let the silence remain enough. 28


Heart-to-heart choice points accumulate and use the shared relationship calculation at completion. The listed points are base values, not guaranteed final affection gains.
Without the Song also records 5 Lily NPC intimacy experience, kissing classification, in its final round. Its final standard reply “Tell her you choose every beautiful and difficult part.” ties the listed best at 28 points. The first two H2Hs do not configure NPC intimacy experience; none of the three configures player Erotic experience.

Dates

Choose these from Lily's Guild portrait. Each date completes once and is part of the story progression.
Date action Requirements / start window Cost Highest total base affection
Lantern Rhythms Friend; Songs Without Endings; first H2H completed; 5–10 PM 120 minutes; $80; 30 Energy; Calm +8 28: 12 completion + 5 + 5 + 6
A Rest Between Notes Close Friend; The Rose and the Thorn; second H2H completed; 6–10 PM 120 minutes; $50; 25 Energy; Calm +10 34: 15 completion + 6 + 6 + 7
For Lantern Rhythms, choose Caring or Funny at the first two choices, then Funny at the final choice. For A Rest Between Notes, choose Caring or Funny first, then Caring or Flirty at each remaining choice. Every reply converges on completion.
Neither date adds paid-version access, Higher Power or a voucher requirement. Begin at the Guild during the action's starting window; the game takes you to the date setting.

Shared Encounter with Ryia

The Unruly Chorus triggers at the Guild while Lily is present, with Ryia active as a Rose & Thorn worker and not on vacation. It has no separate minimum Lily affection gate and runs once.
Completion grants 8 base Lily affection and 5 Ryia affection. For the best Lily reward, choose Caring at the first choice (+3 Lily, +2 Ryia) and Funny at the second (+3 Lily, +1 Ryia), giving 14 base Lily affection and 8 Ryia affection total.
The best Ryia choices are instead Funny first (+3 Ryia) and Flirty second (+3 Ryia), for 11 Ryia affection total. All choices converge. This recollection is optional and does not replace Lily's personal route prerequisites.

Current Route and Troubleshooting

Without the Song is the end of Lily's currently implemented personal route. Her current character definition has no apartment encounter, personal intimate animation, pregnancy route, Kupie selection or Rose & Thorn worker recruitment.
  • Lily absent from the Guild: complete six successful discovery encounters. Finding her, walking away or failing a music roll does not count. Dungeon listening reliably adds one once you find the encounter.
  • Songs Without Endings missing: complete the Guild introduction, reach Acknowledged and 10 Bards Guild clout, and revisit 1 PM–midnight.
  • H2H missing during the afternoon: all three start 9 PM–midnight, with their own story and completion gates.
  • First Bar scene missing: complete Lantern Rhythms, reach Friend and 15 Guild clout, build/access the Bar, and visit 9 AM–midnight.
  • Both Names on the Page missing: complete the second date, reach Close Friend and 25 Guild clout, and perform the route song at three distinct official venues.
  • Later Bar scene missing: finish Where the Echo Returns, reach Crush and 40 Guild clout, and perform the route song at all four official venues.
  • Perform Song unavailable: check the venue's opening hours, your song list and that venue's daily allowance. The story's Guild debut uses today's Guild allowance.
  • Wine no longer helps today: give it only once per day, independently of the four daily talks.

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